Sunday, December 27, 2009

Allen, TX Real Estate Market Snapshot

Allen Real Estate Market Snapshot for November

Homes for Sale: 681
New Homes: 31
Foreclosures 101

Allen, Texas

Allen Real Estate

The City of Allen

Allen Arts Alliance

01.20.2010 | 10:00 AM Allen Art to Go Home School presentation

01.23.2010 - 01.23.2010 | 07:00 PM PANACHE!

02.17.2010 | 10:00 AM Allen Art to Go Home School presentation

02.27.2010 | 07:30 PM BRAVO!

03.24.2010 | 10:00 AM Allen Art to Go Home School presentation

04.17.2010 | 07:00 PM Allen Dance Festival

04.22.2010 | 10:00 AM Allen Art to Go Home School presentation

Driving Tour of Allen

The Allen Heritage Guild, along with the City of Allen, the Allen Parks and Recreation Department and the Texas Historical Commission have developed a historical driving tour of Allen. More information


PANACHE 2009
PANACHE! January 23, 2010 at Courtyard Marriott Dallas Allen Hotel at the John Q. Hammons Center, 210 E. Stacy Road, Allen, TX 75002. 6:00 pm VIP Reception, 7:00 pm Cocktails and Hors d'oeuvres, 8:00 pm Dinner. Swing in the New Year as we recreate a 1940s radio broadcast at PANACHE! Join us for a glamorous evening of cocktails, dining, and dancing. Music provided by Dallas Unlimited. An appearance by a special guest straight from Broadway. Vignettes by member organizations of the Allen Arts Alliance. We hope you'll join us at our annual Allen Arts Alliance fund raising event celebrating the arts here in our community.


01.20.2010 | 10:00 AM Allen Art to Go Home School presentation

01.23.2010 - 01.23.2010 | 07:00 PM PANACHE!

02.17.2010 | 10:00 AM Allen Art to Go Home School presentation

02.27.2010 | 07:30 PM BRAVO!

03.24.2010 | 10:00 AM Allen Art to Go Home School presentation

04.17.2010 | 07:00 PM Allen Dance Festival

04.22.2010 | 10:00 AM Allen Art to Go Home School presentation

January 2010 Calendar for Allen, TX

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Couples find Allen housing complex supplies all their needs

Couples find Allen housing complex supplies all their needs
By Brittany Edwards / The Dallas Morning News
September 18, 2009

ALLEN – After raising four children in a large five-bedroom house, Jana and Mike Brosin decided to scale back – way back. Last December, the empty nesters moved into a 1,450-square-foot apartment at the Lofts at Watters Creek, a complex inside Watters Creek at Montgomery Farm.

"It's kind of our mini Manhattan," Jana says from her fifth-floor unit overlooking a meandering man-made waterway and the Blue Fish Japanese restaurant. "The greatest benefit in renting is that you don't even have to change an air filter. There's no lawn, no maintenance."

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Allen Community Outreach gearing up to host annual golf classic

Allen Community Outreach gearing up to host annual golf classic
By Kim Nguyen / Allen American
September 11, 2009

The Allen Community Outreach is gearing up to host its fourth annual Golf Classic on Sept. 21 at the Heritage Ranch Golf and Country Club in Fairview.

Driving ranges will open at 11:30 a.m. and the tournament will begin with a shotgun start team scramble at 1 p.m.

The tournament, which has been a sellout event for the past two years, was designed to be fun and enjoyable for players of all skill levels with a chance to win prizes while raising awareness for the needs of the Allen-Fairview-Lucas community at the same time.

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Monday, June 22, 2009

Cisco Systems to build new data center in Allen

By Steve Brown / The Dallas Morning News
June 10, 2009

California-based Cisco Systems Inc. has chosen Allen as the site for a new data center.

The worldwide Internet and telecommunications firm will build the $184 million facility west of North Central Expressway on Chelsea Boulevard. Work on the project is expected to begin later this year.

Cisco officials didn't return calls seeking comment, but the Allen City Council is scheduled to approve the big business expansion at its meeting tonight.

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LED lights to give Fairview “green” look

By Jon Vanderlaan / Star Community Newspaper
June 11, 2009

In addition to shopping and dining, the Village development also will bring the town of Fairview the first street in Texas lit entirely by LED lights.

The lights, named The Fairview Bell Series by Sunovia Energy Technologies after the town, will be placed on Fairview Parkway, a street located directly behind the Village at Fairview.

Ray Dunlap, community development manager for Fairview, said the LED lights are aesthetically pleasing and Sunovia was willing to create a light that helped satisfy the requirements set out by the town's dark sky ordinance.

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Collin County Foreclosures keep climbing

Foreclosure totals for the DFW area topped 12,000 for the last six consecutive fiscal quarters.

By Danny Gallagher, McKinney Courier-Gazette

Foreclosures not only saw a jump last month, but also for the last two quarters of 2009.

Foreclosed homes for both the Collin County and the Dallas-Fort Worth area jumped to record levels both last month and last quarter, according to data tabulated by the Foreclosure Listing Service of Fort Worth.

A total of 699 homes will go on the auction block in June from Collin County. That represents a 39 percent increase from June of 2009 when 502 homes went under foreclosure status, according to tabulated data.

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Collin County foreclosures down over same time last year

PLANO - For the first time in several years, the number of new residential foreclosures is down in Collin County and surrounding areas. The first quarter of 2009 showed an 11.9 decrease in the number of new foreclosures over the same time last year, reports the Collin County Association of Realtors (CCAR). In addition, more than one-fourth of all closed sales in the first quarter were foreclosure listings - up 19 percent from the same time last year.

"If we continue to see a decrease in new foreclosure listings while foreclosure sales are brisk, the market will eventually absorb most of those listings. This is an important component to a return to a more normal market," says Steve Haid, CCAR member services director.

While the decrease in new foreclosures is a positive indicator, the increase in foreclosure sales has contributed to a 4.1 percent drop in the median sales price of homes ($165,000), compared to the first quarter of 2008. During the first quarter of 2009, the median sales price of foreclosure homes was $111,000, and the median sales price of traditional homes was $185,000.

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