Celebrity Homes

You can buy legendary Cowboys coach Tom Landry's $1.3 million Hill Country home

Attention, Dallas Cowboys fans: You can score coaching legend Tom Landry’s former getaway near Lake Travis for $1.36 million. The three-bedroom, three-bathroom home, just south of Lakeway, overlooks the 18th hole of The Hills Golf Course, designed by golf icon Jack Nicklaus.

Dallas-based Foster & Meier Architects Inc. designed the 3,938-square-foot home for Landry. It features a white stucco exterior and a roof made of red-clay tiles. (By the way, Foster & Meier also designed the Dallas home of cosmetics queen Mary Kay Ash, who died in 2001.)

Landry’s former home was custom-built in 1983, six years before Cowboys owner Jerry Jones ousted the coach after 29 years. In fact, it was at this Texas Hill Country home where Landry was told in February 1989 by Jones, who had just purchased the team, and Tex Schramm, the team’s president, that he was being canned as the Cowboys’ first — and at that point only — coach.

Features of the former Landry home, at 28 Club Estates Parkway in the affluent village known as The Hills, include:

Renovated kitchen with new appliances, cabinets, and floors
Elevated, covered deck with a wood-beam ceiling
Separate guesthouse
Courtyard with a pool and firepit
Crystal chandelier in the dining room
Living-room fireplace
Floor-to-ceiling windows throughout
Hardwood floors
Library
Ivory-and-black Italian tiles in the master bedroom

Ginger Sofia, an Austin sales associate with Coldwell Banker United, Realtors, has the listing.

“The detail and careful design of this home is both elegant and practical, while the setting is made for those longing to enjoy the country club lifestyle,” Sofia says in a release. “The main house is connected to the guesthouse through a breezeway surrounding a beautiful courtyard that is [a] perfect outdoor entertainment space and offers plenty of privacy.”

Landry and his late wife, Alicia, also once owned a vacation home in Spicewood, about 35 miles northwest of Austin. The couple’s main residence was in Dallas’ Preston Hollow neighborhood.

Landry, instantly recognizable in his trademark fedora and stylish suit, died in February 2000 at age 75.

The house features lots of outdoor space for entertaining.

Photo courtesy of Coldwell Banker

The house features lots of outdoor space for entertaining.

the renter generation

Dallas declared a top-20 hotspot for Gen Z renters in new report

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The overwhelming majority of Dallas Gen Zers are renters.

A new report has confirmed what most Dallas-based Gen Zers already know: Homeownership rates aren’t looking good for the Zoomer generation. In fact, over 88 percent of all Gen Zers in Dallas-Fort Worth are renters, not homeowners, according to a new Rentcafe study.

The housing report analyzed the U.S. hotspots where Gen Zers (individuals born between 1997 and 2012) are renting versus buying their homes. Using homeownership and renting data across 97 U.S. metros, RentCafe’s analysts determined which cities have had the biggest gains in Gen Z renters and homeowners from 2018-2023.

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 16 in the national comparison of metros where nearly all Gen Z individuals rent. The study’s findings show there were 189,461 Gen Z households who were renters in 2023.

The prevalence of Gen Z renters in DFW has skyrocketed over the last five years; there were only 26,251 DFW-based Gen Z renter households in 2018.

During the same five-year period, the rate of Gen Z homeowners in DFW grew from 2,048 to 25,002 households. But that only represents 11.66 percent of the entire Gen Z population in the Metroplex, RentCafe found.

Unsurprisingly, affordability is one of the biggest hurdles that the younger generation faces when it comes to homeownership. It can be hard to feel optimistic about buying a starter home when even Post Malone's modest childhood home in Grapevine hit the market for more than half a million dollars.

RentCafe adds that metros with good job opportunities (and good pay), recreational activities, and good schools are top-of-mind for Gen Zers that want to settle down in one place.

“And it’s not just the big coastal cities that offer these things,” the report’s author wrote. “While major hubs like New York City and Boston still attract Gen Z renters, the real growth is happening in the South.”

A separate housing affordability report hinted Dallas home prices are starting to cool off after a two-year price surge, which could bring relief to homebuyers of all ages. According to the latest market insight from the MetroTex Association of Realtors, housing prices in Dallas County have dipped 2.8 percent since last February, to $359,695.

Gen Z renter and homeownership rates in other Texas cities
The meteoric rise in Gen Z renters is not just happening in Dallas — every major city in Texas is seeing similar shifts in their renter populations.

Austin has the second-highest share of Gen Z renters in Texas, and it ranked No. 6 among U.S. metros where nearly all Gen Zers are renters. A surprising 91.56 percent of all Gen Z individuals living in the Austin area rent, and only 8.44 percent are homeowners. Out of the total 102,323 Gen Z households living in the metro, 93,687 are renters, while the remaining 8,636 own their homes.

In Houston, 162,305 Gen Z households are renters and 27,093 are homeowners. That means about 86 percent of all Gen Z households rent, and 14 percent own homes.

San Antonio, on the other hand, is home to one of the highest rates of Gen Z homeowners in the state. About 20 percent of Gen Z San Antonians are already homeowners, while the remaining 79.57 percent are renters. That adds up to about 13,862 Gen Z homeowners, and 53,998 renters.

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