Downtown, Uptown and Oak Lawn

This is where Dallas began. John Neely Bryan settled on the east bank of the Trinity near a natural ford in November 1841, yards from what is now Dealey Plaza, and the business district grew up around the spot. Deep Ellum, on its eastern edge, was the center of the city's popular music in the 1920s and 1930s and sits close to one of the freedmen's towns founded after the Civil War. North of the Woodall Rodgers Freeway, which Klyde Warren Park now covers for a few blocks, Uptown and Oak Lawn hold far more residents than downtown does, and most of their homes are in apartment and condominium buildings. 4 guides are listed below.

Two things set buying here apart. Much of what there is to buy is a unit in a building rather than a house on a lot, so the questions are the association's budget, its reserve, its insurance and what its declaration allows, rentals included. And much of this area sits inside a public improvement district as well as the five taxing units: downtown, Uptown, Deep Ellum and the Arts District each have one, whose assessment rate the City Council sets every year after a public hearing. Oak Lawn has its own zoning as well, a special purpose district the City numbers PD 193, whose subdistricts set what can be built where.