Dallas is Not on These Top 10 Real Estate Lists – and That’s a Good Thing

Major magazines have made it their business to come up with lists. There’s the Fortune 500, Forbes list of world’s richest people and U.S. News & World Report’s college rankings, just to name a few. But while it’s often a very good thing to appear on a national list, there are some lists that no one wants to be on. Forbes latest real estate lists are a case in point.

The magazine recently published a list of Cities with the Fastest-Falling Home Prices. Although Austin did make the top 10 list, Dallas did not.  A related list, Cities Where Homes are Losing the Most Value , did not have a single Texas city on it. Not surprisingly, that list was dominated by cities in California, Florida and Michigan. How about the list, Cities Where Americans Pay Most in Property Taxes? Well, Collin County and Fort Bend County did make that one, with taxes that were way above the national average. But Dallas County did not.   

Dallas also did not make the Forbes list of the World’s Happiest Cities  But maybe as the real estate market continues to improve, we could have a shot at that one.

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