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Podcast: Texas Wants to Know
Episode: What are the biggest barriers to owning a home today?
Description: For those looking to buy their first home and for those looking to downsize, everything from the pandemic to the war in Ukraine to supply chain slogs are creating challenges for North Texas homebuyers.
In addition to those hurdles, Dallas-Fort Worth is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the country, and buyers are competing not only with each other but with developers buying up homes too.
On North Texas Wants to Know, a couple in their 20s, who just bought their first home, explains how they shifted their expectations as prices rose. And another...