Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Movin' on UP ...way up NORTH!


Texas Real Estate Developers and Global Alternative Investment Firm Värde Partners Acquire Windsong Ranch in Prosper, Texas



​​​​Carey Marin at BusinessWire writes that Tellus Group, a joint venture of Vä​​rde Partners and developers Craig Martin and David Blom, has purchased the Windsong Ranch from the Terra Verde Group. 

The 2,030-acre master-planned​ community is at 1001 Windsong Pkwy. S. At full build-out, the community will have 3,100 single-family homes, 600 acres of open green space, and 150 acres of mixed-use development. 

It will be the first North Texas development to offer​ a Crystal Lagoon (I bet the folks in Rowlett are pretty jealous). The five-acre lagoon will open in spring 2019.

Homes will be priced from the $200,000s to over $1 million. Builders include American Legend Homes, Belclaire Homes, Britton Homes, Chesmar Homes, Darling Homes, Drees Custom Homes, Grenadier Homes, Highland Homes, Huntington Homes, and MainVue Homes.

Thursday, July 12, 2018

DFW home sales see first Y-O-Y decline in nearly two years

 CHILL OUT!


Steve Brown at the Dallas Morning News says that North Texas home sales actually fell 3% in June, marking the first year-over-year decline in almost two years. 

Last month, 10,754 preowned single-family homes were sold, according to data from the Real Estate Center and the North Texas Real Estate Information Systems. 

With June's decline, preowned home sales are up just 1 percent so far this year compared with 2017's record sales. 

Median home sales prices were up 7 percent over the year, hitting a record high of $273,000. ​

​There was a three-month supply of homes in the area. The average North Texas home was on the market for 38 days​. 

In June, there were 10,998 pending sales. There were 24,174 homes listed for sale in the metro, up 12 percent over the year.  

So, that's a cooling of the market.  Not a bursting bubble.  A corrective slowdown.  We think that is good news.