DALLAS – From Grand Rapids, Michigan, 30-year-old Chad Wade is in Dallas looking for a place to live, and he has no shortage of choices.
“If anything, it’s kind of overwhelming because there’s just so many options,” he said.
It seems like new apartments are being built everywhere he turns. “There’s cranes everywhere,” Wade said.
Wade decided to get help narrowing down his apartment search. He met T.J. Cornwall, also a young Dallas transplant, and a licensed real estate agent.
“I know the market like the back of my hand, but still there is a new property that pops up once a week,” said Cornwall. He has to keep up with all the new construction for his clients.
Cornwall estimates about 400 people are moving to Dallas per day. “Everyone that I moved here is moving here for a job,” he said.
His client, Wade, is an example of someone relocating to DFW for a career.
A report by the United States Department of Labor shows the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro is doing well. Employment in one year has grown by more than 130,000 jobs.
As a result, new apartments are being built every day. It gives future Texans more options than they would expect. Wade found a fitting apartment in less than two days. He was set to move to Dallas two weeks after WFAA spoke to him.