Economists: Why DFW doesn’t deserve Amazon’s HQ2


Seattle-based e-commerce giant Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) could make its big HQ2 campus decision in the coming weeks, but some West Coast economists say Dallas-Fort Worth's chances of landing the behemoth's second headquarters are dwindling.

That's because North Texas has seen surges in the appreciation of home prices with little single-family home inventory to go around, said Javier Vivas, director of economic insights for realtor.com in San Francisco.

"Dallas is definitely a bigger market on Amazon's…

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