home ownership

Dallas County's property costs are passed on. Rent — and renters' insurance — had gone up.

A home builder and an electricity retailer are partnering to install backup power batteries in new homes as Texans brace for potential outages this winter.

Dallas ranks number 10 of 50 cities with the most residents whose property taxes have gone up the most.

A private surveillance company has skirted local regulations by installing dozens of cameras on public property without approval from the city of Fort Worth, an investigation by the Fort Worth Report has found.

A new report shows renters and homeowners are under significant strain from housing costs. Housing affordability is slipping faster in Texas than the national average.

With the state dealing with a winter freeze and multiple floods within the past five years, insurance companies have paid out for a lot of damage. The industry is sticking homeowners with the bill.

More than a quarter of Fort Worth’s single-family homes are owned by commercial interests, according to a city staff report that analyzed data from the Tarrant Appraisal District.

Blurred lines and unclear protections for mobile homeowners, who purchase the home but rent the land to place it within a mobile home park, leaves many of them vulnerable to mistreatment and being squeezed out of every dollar.

Dallas County residential market values are up almost 16% from last year, early data show. That number's even higher for homeowners in several cities and school districts.

Fort Worth’s latest housing development comes with caveats aimed at reducing congestion in fast growing far north Fort Worth.

The Justice Department has filed its first predatory mortgage lending case against a Texas developer accused of luring tens of thousands of Hispanic homebuyers into “bait and switch” sales through platforms like TikTok. The lawsuit filed Wednesday focuses on a large development northeast of Houston.

The unexpected death of McEwing’s stepmother without a will left the fate of her home in limbo as McEwing and his stepsister struggled to save the house amid mortgage issues and a clouded title.