Southwest, CyrusOne, home sales, Pain & Profit: Friday's D-FW business news

October 26,  2018  Prefer the online view? It's [here](. Follow us on Twitter [@DMNBiz](. Fewer sales and smaller home-price increases this year mark a shift in Dallas' housing market. (Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer) The Big Story Home sales are falling in Duncanville, Fairview and Allen Home sales are down this year in two-thirds of Dallas-area neighborhoods. Prices are still rising in most residential areas — albeit more slowly. After years of sharp gains in North Texas home sales and soaring prices, 2018 is the year of the housing market shift. Higher interest rates and buyer fatigue are probably to blame for a slowdown in the Dallas area's frenetic home market. Through the first nine months of 2018, the number of preowned home sales is down in more than two dozen of the Dallas-area neighborhoods The Dallas Morning News tracks each quarter. [Read more about home sales and see how your area of D-FW compares to others.]( Advertisement The Latest Irving's 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' hotel [Called the Texican Court](, the 152-room hotel opens its doors next month near Irving's convention center. One of D-FW's biggest 'digital factories' opens [Dallas-based CyrusOne's new $600-million data center]( near Stacy Road sits behind the shopping center on the west side of U.S. Highway 75. Greenville Ave. suffers another restaurant closure [Don Chingon has closed](. As of Thursday afternoon, tables were being pushed into corners and the restaurant was being cleaned. Southwest to Hawaii? Almost, but not yet [The Dallas-based carrier has been working for about a year to become certified]( to operate extended over-water flights from California to Hawaii. Texas business leaders must now be moral leaders on Saudi Arabia Editorial: [Separating Texas business from Saudi Arabia]( would be like trying to remove cheese from a hot quesadilla. Messy and painful. Elsewhere in Texas - Austin: [Solarwinds]( is wrestling with uncertain market following IPO. (Austin American-Statesman) - Statewide: The value of [Texas merger deals]( rises. (Texas Lawbook via Houston Chronicle) - San Antonio: [San Antonio airport]( set another passenger record in September. (San Antonio Express-News) - Austin: [Homegrown Yeti goes public](, trading on the New York Stock Exchange. (Austin American-Statesman) - Houston: [ConocoPhillips reported a $1.86 billion profit]( for the third quarter which is a huge gain from a year ago. (Houston Chronicle) Zak Farquer, now 22, is a former foster child who is confined to a motorized chair and is paralyzed following a childhood car accident in 2009. He's in the unique position of being able to request his records and retell the many struggles he had with Superior Health Plan, including for denials of care and equipment. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News) pain & Profit Texas patients lose in the state’s appeals system The first time doctors prescribed a special breathing device for Zak Farquer, he had just woken from a coma in a Dallas hospital, paralyzed from the neck down. A car had crashed into the 13-year-old as he rode a scooter. Over the next few years, four other doctors also said he needed the $13,000 machine, which pumps vapor medicine to clear out his lungs and prevent deadly infections. The state health commission agreed, ordering the company it hired to care for him to cover the cost of the equipment he has used every day since he left the hospital. But the company ignored that order and refused to pay, again and again, according to his medical records. The company denied him other equipment, too. [Six times in five years, Farquer had to get a lawyer and file formal appeals and complaints to get coverage for the treatment and devices his doctors prescribed, legal records show](. “I didn’t understand,” said Farquer, now 22. “I need this equipment to keep me alive and healthy. “Why would you put my life on the line to save money?” Follow DFW stocks: [See how top North Texas stocks performed](, as well as the oil and gas markets and major stock exchanges. DFW Top 100 Places to Work 2017: The Dallas Morning News and Workplace Dynamics partner each year to feature the [Top 100 workplaces](, based on ratings by the people who work at them.  Do you have feedback on this newsletter? Send your thoughts, questions, praise and corrections to our Business Editor Paul O'Donnell at [podonnell@dallasnews.com](mailto:podonnell@dallasnews.com?subject=Newsletter%20Feedback). STAY CONNECTED WITH US  [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( [Reddit](  [OTHER NEWSLETTERS]( [SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS]( [Unsubscribe](  |  [Manage Preferences](  |  [Privacy Policy](  |  [Contact](  |  [Advertise]( You received this message because you signed up for this Dallas Morning News newsletter or it was forwarded to you. Copyright 2018 - [The Dallas Morning News]( | [1954 Commerce St., Dallas, TX 75201](#)