Dallas Real Estate News, FSBO Listings

S&P: Dallas-area home prices drop 3.2% (Dallas Morning News)
Dallas-area home prices continue to drift lower, dropping 3.2 percent in the latest national study. But there were indications in the report that home prices in North Texas are bottoming.

Study Finds Most Online Home Seekers Searching Through Incomplete and Inaccurate Listings (Centre Daily Times)
A real estate industry study released today shows that most popular consumer real estate search engines, including Trulia, Zillow, Google and Yahoo!, offer home seekers only a small fraction of the homes actually available on the market - and that many of the listings are inaccurate or out of date. Real estate searches on these popular sites in three sample markets -- Miami, Dallas and San Diego ...

Two Minutes with Grisenia Matos (BizJournals)
After working for more than 20 years in the real estate industry, Grisenia Matos founded Dallas-based 1031 Advanced Realty eXchange LLC last year. As president of the consulting firm that specializes in the niche market of 1031 exchanges, Matos and her staff of two help real estate investors determine if they should make such a purchase and, if so, help locate replacement properties for them. ...

Record drops in U.S. home prices continue (San Francisco Chronicle)
Although U.S. home prices fell faster than ever in the second quarter, the rate of acceleration slowed in June, according to a closely watched index. Experts hailed the slight deceleration as a harbinger of an eventual turnaround in the dismal real estate...

LUMINEERS(R) Now Offered At Dallas/Ft. Worth Area Monarch Dental Offices (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DALLAS & FORT WORTH, Texas----Bright Now! Dental, the nation’s leading provider of business support services to dentists, today announced the immediate availability of LUMINEERS BY CERINATE® at its affiliated Dallas/Fort Worth area Monarch Dental offices.

Kolter Group is Latest Commercial RE Player to Embrace Residential (Commercial Property News)
It isn’t necessarily a trend, but it’s likely more than coincidence that the Kolter Group, West Palm Beach, Fla., is the second largely commercial real estate company in the past couple of weeks to announce a big financial commitment to the distressed residential market.

Landscape Lighting: A Great Way to Dress Up Your Home (Today's News-Herald)
(ARA) - The real estate market may be in a slump, but not all industries having to do with the home are in trouble. Companies that specialize in remodeling and renovation, particularly in the area of outdoor living, are doing extremely well right now.

Study Finds Most Online Home Seekers Searching Through Incomplete and Inaccurate Listings (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN FRANCISCO----A real estate industry study released today shows that most popular consumer real estate search engines, including Trulia, Zillow, Google and Yahoo!, offer home seekers only a small fraction of the homes actually available on the market - and that many of the listings are inaccurate or out of date.

Roost.com Enhances Online Real Estate Search Coverage With Addition of San Francisco and Seattle (Centre Daily Times)
Roost, Inc. (www.roost.com), the fastest, most comprehensive search engine for finding your dream home, today announced the launch of its service in San Francisco and Seattle, two of the nation's most desirable and dynamic real estate markets. The addition of these new listings gives local home buyers the most accurate and up-to-date listings of single-family homes, new construction and for ...