The name Topletz Investments resonates around southern Dallas as the gold standard for slumlord exploitation of the poor. The Topletz family is infamous for purchasing hundreds of bottom-quality, dilapidated houses, slapping a coat of paint on the exterior, then renting them out to low-income residents willing to accept a rickety roof over their heads.Patriarchs Harold and Jack Topletz spent years expanding their housing empire by snapping up hundreds of properties from owners desperate to sell Read more [...]

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One in a continuing series spotlighting real estate markets in the region's communities. Plumstead Township has a rural quality nearly three decades of home construction hasn't altered, and it's convenient to Philadelphia, New York, and the burgeoning Doylestown restaurant scene. Convenience, however, ranks Read more [...]

Locate the region's million-dollar-plus homes on a map, and the push pins will reveal a new Philadelphia Story. Some of the terrain is familiar: the Main Line, Chestnut Hill, Haddonfield, and Moorestown. But today, even as reverberations from the burst housing bubble still cause shudders, homes priced Read more [...]