Dallas is Top Housing Market in New Consumer Poll by Chase
Dallas’ housing market gets top marks in a new consumer study by JPMorgan Chase. The banking giant teamed up with Pulsenomics to ask homeowners about current market conditions, their aspirations for homeownership and outlooks for home values and affordability. Dallas headed the housing confidence ranking ahead of Denver, Las Vegas and San Francisco, according to Chase. “These record results were driven by healthy assessments of local real estate market conditions among existing homeowners, but even more so by surging expectations among renters,” Terry Loebs, founder of Pulsenomics, said in the report. “Seven in ten renters now express confidence in their ability to afford a home someday, and nearly three-quarters of those with an opinion say that buying a home is the best long-term investment a person can make.” Dallas-area residents polled by Chase in the survey had the strongest homeownership aspirations. Eighty percent of Dallas renters Chase surveyed said they are confident they will eventually own a home. And 70 percent said they plan to purchase in the next five years.
– Dallas Morning News, July 5, 2018
Californians Continue Moving to Texas
Dallas-Fort Worth was one of the top destinations for domestic migrants from California in 2017, according to a recent study. There were 1,051 moves from coastal California, the home of some of the country’s toughest housing markets, to Dallas in the first quarter of 2017, according to Alexandra Lee, a housing analyst with the real estate listing and research site Trulia, which did the study. Out of 19,132 moves out of the region during that time period, 5.5 percent went to D-FW. Houston is also a popular destination for people fleeing the California coast — 3 percent of the migrants in the study came to Texas’ most populous city, meaning that 8.5 percent of those in the study came to either Dallas-Fort Worth or Houston. The Trulia report looked at census data for transplants from four coastal California hubs: San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego. Homes in those markets listed for an average of $720,000 in March 2017, Trulia says, compared to $313,000 in Dallas and $250,000 nationally. The home prices in these cities is clearly a major determinant in whether people leave California and to where they move, Lee said over email, but it’s not the be-all and end-all. Texas is a big destination for job-to-job flows, a U.S. Census Bureau-designed statistic that measures flows of employees from one company to another when they’ve been at each company longer than three quarters. The biggest source of these flows is California, which contributed 6,884 in the first quarter of 2016.
– Dallas Morning News, June 28, 2018
Frisco – Fastest Growing City in USA
Frisco, for the first time in at least five years, topped the U.S. Census bureau’s list of fastest-growing big cities in the nation, adding an average of 37 new residents every day for a population jump of 8.2 percent, data released Thursday showed. The booming Dallas suburb also landed in the ninth spot in terms of the raw number of residents it added over the year that ended in July — an impressive feat for a city that, at 177,286 people, is still relatively small. The 14 largest cities in the country didn’t change from the prior year. Which means that Texas surpassed California’s share of the top 15 list, with five cities making the cut. California — which has about 11 million more residents than the Lone Star State overall — had four.
– Dallas Morning News, July 7, 2018