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Multiple Offers: Helpful Tips for Buyers and Sellers

This article from Texas REALTOR® Magazine offers helpful insights for both Buyers and Sellers on handling multiple offers. 

“Buyers Face Stiff Competition for Properties

Your buyer clients will need to stand out from the crowd in order to get a contract accepted. Many properties are going under contract quickly and often with multiple offers above listing price. Consider these tips for helping buyers put their best foot forward in this increasingly common scenario.”

“When Representing Sellers, Be Fair or Beware

Congratulations on receiving multiple offers for your seller’s property. What do you do now? To comply with Texas Real Estate Commission rules, you and your client’s next steps must treat all prospective buyers fairly or you risk disciplinary action.”

Read the full article here.

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Lifestyle Tips & Tricks

We hope everyone this is reaching in Texas is safe and well! Here are some ideas to look forward to this Spring.

11 Common Kitchen Design Mistakes to Avoid, According to Top Designers
As kitchens become more integrated into our homes and our daily routines, your cook space should reflect your personal style, whether you prefer all-white kitchens, kitchens with color, modern kitchens, or even a small kitchen. Veranda asked designers and architects from around the country to share the biggest kitchen design mistakes to avoid. These tips will help you explore your personal design aesthetic in the kitchen as well as the smallest accents are to your liking.
Courtesy of Veranda

Every 2021 Color of The Year
Pantone is the latest to reveal its prediction for the 2021 color of the year. See which shades you can expect to see in the coming year from some of the biggest names in paint. See the top shades Better Homes & Garden’s know of so far.
Courtesy of Better Homes & Gardens

HGTV’s Take on The Biggest Home Design Trends for 2021
After a year that guided many of us to spend more time at home, the new year is an opportunity to bring comfort and creativity to our living spaces. From calming Zen room ideas to stylish (and smart) approaches to home office design, HGTV is predicting 15 of the biggest interior design trends for 2021.
Courtesy of HGTV

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Real Estate in the News

What to Expect From the Housing Market in 2021
Extended time at home is shaping how people live every day, as well as what they want from their home and where they want to live well beyond this current season. In 2021, here are a few trends shaping up for the housing market: Interest rates are expected to remain low but increase gradually. Average home prices will rise. Home inventory will remain low, despite plenty of new construction. Here’s what experts are predicting for buyers, sellers, renters, and new construction in 2021. Read more by U.S. News

17 Excellent Dallas Brunch Restaurants
In Dallas, brunch might be the most important meal of the weekend. This is why it’s important to know exactly where to find the fluffiest pancakes, the crispiest bacon, and the strongest mimosas. But where does one find the best brunch in Dallas? Eater Dallas has the scoop on all the top spots here. Courtesy of Eater Dallas

Dallas-Fort Worth Home Prices Could Climb This High in 2021
If a new prediction is accurate, the median home price in Dallas-Fort Worth will reach at least $316,000 in 2021, and home sales growth would surpass that of Texas’ three other major metro areas. Realtor.com predicts DFW will see combined sales and price growth of 15.7 percent next year in the housing market compared with 2020.  Courtesy of CultureMap

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Dallas Arboretum’s Dallas Blooms: “America the Beautiful”
Music and nature come to life at the Dallas Arboretum with more than 100 varieties of spring bulbs and over 500,000 blooms. Experience one of the country’s most colorful floral displays and celebrate “America the Beautiful.” Starting February 20–April 11, 2021. Courtesy of Dallas Arboretum.

Marugame Udon Sets Opening Date for Lower Greenville Location
The cafeteria-style Japanese noodle restaurant is now open in the Old Town Shopping Center, 5500 Greenville Ave. The Tokyo-based concept is known for its handmade udon noodles, fresh tempura, and katsu sandos prepared and assembled in a theatrical exhibition kitchen. Courtesy of Advocate

Oak Cliff, Real Estate

Neighbors Make it a Neighborhood

You can love your house, the parks nearby, the trees, etc. But what truly makes a neighborhood are the people in it. We are grateful for our Oak Cliff neighbors regularly. From the one that brings us cookies from a new recipe they just got (yum!) to the person we go on our weekly walks with. From the guy next door who picks up our mail when we’re away to the family three houses down we celebrate Thanksgiving with every year.

Emily Ruth and her family are a bit between neighborhoods, but she is so grateful for the new faces she encounters at the neighborhood treasure, Twelve Hills Nature Center. South Clinton and Winnetka Heights still have her heart, and she finds her way over there often.

Emily Ruth appreciates the neighborhood families working with school age children creatively to support each other and their teachers in this challenging time. It feels like a thankless job in a vacuum sometimes, but Emily Ruth is so incredibly thankful for the teachers, the young growing minds, and the collective support to heal from this pandemic. 

Jenni appreciates how the time since late March has brought many more of her neighbors out to walk/run/bike on Greenbriar Ln. And of course, her Kings Highway neighbors remain near and dear from the decade-plus living on Windomere and Kings Hwy. This time has made her grateful for relationships and the creative ways we have found to maintain them. From FaceTime happy hours, to Zoom birthday calls, and socially distant coffees in backyards. She loves the attention that is being put into caring for those we love.

See you soon, neighbors.

XOXO  Jenni & Em

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Have a happy (and safe) halloween!

Here are some suggestions for having the safest Halloween possible in 2020. With the current high risk of COVID-19 transmission, Dallas County is asking you to be creative in the way you celebrate Halloween this year. Here are a few of their ideas:

🧟‍♀️💻Virtual Costume Contest

🚘🕸Car Parades

👻📽Spooky Movie Night

🔍🍬Candy Scavenger Hunt

Let us know how you are celebrating #HalloweenAtHome this year by tagging us in your pictures and using #StaySpookyStaySafe! 🎃Full details here.