Bion Grady's (biongrady) Blog

Among life’s problems most people wish they could have is a challenge faced by sellers of Dallas’s luxury properties: the task of developing an asking price that attracts the sophisticated, value-conscious buyers who qualify as legitimate prospects while still taking advantage of the “favorable m...

The good feeling you might have gotten after reading the lead story in last Thursday’s yahoo!finance was a lot like hearing welcome news at the doctor’s. If he tells you you’re in good health at the end of your annual checkup, it feels great—even if you hadn’t suspected anything was wrong. So whe...

It does seem that around this time of year Powder Springs’s weather gets a proportionately larger share of attention from the news media. This would stand to reason when it breaks records or registers one extreme or another, but it seems as if Powder Springs’s weather doesn’t even have to misbeha...

If you’ve been checking into the Dallas listings from time to time, you might be puzzled by the number of experts who refer to a ‘housing market downturn’ or ‘real estate recession.’ The Dallas listings regularly show new properties coming onto the market—just as they record those that go under c...

This year’s calendar dictates that Douglasville’s Father’s Day arrives a bit earlier than usual (the third Sunday in June hits this week). That makes the contrast with Mother’s Day more blatant. For most families, it’s hard to ignore the disparity. They may strive (manfully) to give Dad the same ...

CNN’s Business web pages published an analysis that would interest the Powder Springs real estate watchers who track the national press’s interpretation of the latest housing activity—it is they, after all, who establish the public perception of “how real estate is doing.” If the emphasis is on f...

As U.S. middle-income households find it harder to find or afford suitable properties, denizens of the ultra-high-end of the income scale are, as usual, facing different issues. From the West Coast to the East, the top end of the U.S. housing market’s wealthy clientele has had hit-or-miss sales r...

If there is even a sliver of a chance you will add your home to the Dallas listings any time within the foreseeable future, there is one key feature that’s all but impossible to improve quickly when it comes time to sell: the lawn. Even though it can be key to framing your offering in a positive ...

When you thumb through this year’s comprehensive housing report on the identities and motivations of U.S. home buyers and sellers, you are reminded anew of how wide-ranging the results turn out to be. It’s a truism among Powder Springs housing industry professionals that you can’t predict just wh...

Last week, Elon Musk was in the news again—this time for a housing prognostication that immediately prompted sharp counters from industry experts. Twitter’s new owner tweeted that he expected the hard times currently being experienced in the commercial real estate sector would be followed by the ...