{"id":27658,"date":"2020-09-18T16:47:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T04:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=27658"},"modified":"2020-09-18T17:19:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T05:19:02","slug":"we-are-living-in-the-weirdest-real-estate-market-ever-dallas-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/we-are-living-in-the-weirdest-real-estate-market-ever-dallas-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Living in the Weirdest Real Estate Market Ever | Dallas Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOTO: The Covid 19 Property Market<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looking to buy or sell in the pandemic? Here are the new North Texas rules.<\/p>\n

Nothing is normal in this year of the pandemic. That includes Dallas\u2019 housing market, which is hot in a really strange way. One real estate agent describes the situation as \u201ca near frenzy.\u201d Another calls it simply \u201cweird.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in early March, it was neither. It was normal. Houses were selling at a brisk pace. The market wasn\u2019t as hot as it was in, say, 2016, but sellers were still making a buck and buyers had to work to find a deal. Then the coronavirus arrived. In-person home showings were disallowed. By May, according to the MetroTex Association of Realtors, residential sales in Dallas County had fallen 35 percent from their level in May 2019. The median sales price was down 4 percent. Some said the housing market would continue to suffer for months, maybe years. It didn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In that same month of May, after Dallas County had declared real estate an essential business and reopened in-person showings, the sagging market sprung to life. \u201cI have not seen anything like what happened after we became \u2018essential\u2019 in the 16 years I have been doing this,\u201d says Faisal Halum, head of the Faisal Halum Group, which sells high-end properties for Briggs Freeman Sotheby\u2019s International. \u201cIt was a near frenzy. We have had to work seven days a week to keep up.\u201d<\/p>\n

By June, six out of every 10 houses on the market received multiple offers. Only Boston had a more competitive market that month. As demand here surged, supply ebbed. Many homeowners understandably decided not to sell during the pandemic. So in June, according to MetroTex, there were 20 percent fewer homes on the market than had been available in June 2019. Still, total sales were up 16 percent that same month, and prices rose 2 percent across the Dallas area. In neighborhoods like Lakewood, the Park Cities, Preston Hollow, and suburban communities bordering Lake Lewisville and Lake Ray Roberts, the price spikes were far higher. Some homes were selling within just 14 days, and near White Rock Lake and Turtle Creek Park, homes were selling for 25 percent more than they had been before the pandemic, according to agents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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