Hottest Neighborhoods

Surprising Dallas neighborhood is the No. 1 most intriguing in the U.S.

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The Dallas Arboretum is a big Northeast Dallas draw.

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A Dallas neighborhood is the No. 1 place in the U.S. being checked out by homebuyers online.

According to a study called "The U.S. Neighborhoods Homebuyers Are Most Interested In," a neighborhood designated as Northeast Dallas got the most views per day on Zillow — beating out Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, and New York.

Commissioned by a website called HouseFresh, the study looked at daily views on home listings in 100 of the most populous American cities on Zillow, as well as the number of days a home was listed on the market.

Northeast Dallas had the highest number of views, with more than 36,100 views per day on Zillow — well above the second-place Hollywood Hills, which had 32,216 views.

The top 10 most popular neighborhoods in the U.S. are:

No. 1 – Northeast Dallas
No. 2 – Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles
No. 3 – Camelback East in Phoenix
No. 4 – La Jolla in San Diego
No. 5 – Upper East Side in New York
No. 6 – North Mountain in Phoenix
No. 7 – Summerlin North in Las Vegas
No. 8 – Elkhorn in Omaha, Nebraska
No. 9 – Lake View in Chicago
No. 10 – Deer Valley in Phoenix

They're using Zillow's definition of Northeast Dallas, which comprises a wide-ranging triangle that starts at Deep Ellum and extends to the boundary of Garland to the east and Richardson to the north, encompassing Lakewood with White Rock Lake at the center. It's a pretty big "neighborhood."

The top five most popular neighborhoods in Dallas include some of the wealthiest areas in the city:

No. 1 – Northeast Dallas
No. 2 – Preston Hollow
No. 3 – Far North
No. 4 – North Dallas
No. 5 – M Streets

House sales overall have recently declined, which the study says is an indicator that these searches may be about "feeding our longing to improve our own lot and satisfy our curiosity to see inside the homes of others."

Least popular
The least popular neighborhood in Dallas are homes in the Northwood Estates community, which attracts only 47 views per day on Zillow. Not a surprise since the neighborhood, located near Royal Lane and Greenville Avenue, has an unusually high number of rentals — about 40 percent of homes in the area. Nextdoor estimates the total population at 3,540, mostly people in their mid-50s.

Northwood Estates also ranked No. 6 in the overall list of least popular U.S. neighborhoods in HouseFresh's study.

The five least popular Dallas neighborhoods For Zillow searchers are:

No. 1 – Northwood Estates
No. 2 – Kleberg
No. 3 – Near East
No. 4 – Buckner Terrace
No. 5 – Eagle Ford

Houses in Kleberg, the No. 2 least popular Dallas neighborhood, saw 242 more daily views on Zillow than homes in Northwood Estates. The formerly-unincorporated community has a population of 5,200-plus residents who are an average age of 45 years old, according to Nextdoor.

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Rent Report

Here's how many Texans are paying too much for rent, report reveals

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Millions of Texas renters, both current residents and new arrivals, suffer from wallet whiplash.

A new report from the Texas Affiliation of Affordable Housing Providers shows 45 percent of the state’s renters spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing. Renters occupy more than 4.2 million Texas households, representing nearly half of the state’s residents.

Worse yet, 81 percent of extremely low-income households in Texas spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing, the report says. For that income group, Texas has a shortage of 864,000 affordable homes.

Thirty percent is the standard financial benchmark for spending too much income on rent, while 50 percent puts a renter in the “severely cost-burdened” bucket.

“To sustain growth and secure future prosperity, Texas will need more than 320,000 additional affordable homes [rented and owned] to address workforce housing affordability and meet the demands of a growing population,” says the report.

“Today, the state is creating thousands of new jobs,” the report adds, “but housing supply has not kept pace with demand, driving up housing costs and constraining continued economic growth.”

Not surprisingly, people who live in or move to three of Texas’ biggest metro areas get hit with the state’s highest apartment rental rates. Here’s Apartments.com’s list of the 10 most expensive places for renters in Texas, based on apartments whose average size ranges from 713 square feet in Austin to 771 square feet in Plano:

1. Frisco — $1,477 per month
2. Plano — $1,461 per month
3. Austin — $1,417 per month
4. Dallas — $1,413 per month
5. McKinney — $1,363 per month
6. Grand Prairie — $1,327 per month
7. Irving — $1,318 per month
8. Garland — $1,237 per month
9. Fort Worth — $1,217 per month
10. Houston — $1,183 per month

San Antonio boasts some of the lowest average rent among Texas’ 10 most affordable markets: $1,075 per month. Mesquite, a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, also fits into that category, with average monthly rent of $1,052.

Earlier this month, Gov. Greg Abbott announced more than $114 million in grants to help develop or rehabilitate properties, providing more than 4,400 affordable rental units.

“As our state grows, we must ensure that Texans have access to the affordable housing they need to thrive,” Abbott says.

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