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Ask Candy: Will The Foreclosure Scandal Affect the Sale of My Dallas Area...
Hi Candy, How do you think the foreclosure moratorium will affect sales of non-foreclosure homes currently on the market? Our starter home (under $150,000) has been listed for a bit over a week and we...
View ArticleDallas Real Estate Home Sales: Rich Hanging in There
I love these interactive maps that the Dallas Morning News creates on their website — so cool. Notice who is doing the best in this market? Park Cities, Westlake, Southlake, North Dallas/Preston...
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All “Z’d” Up: How Much for 6506 Northaven?
Under contract. Look back at what I wrote about this house exactly two years ago, when it was listed with Erin Mathews back when she was still with Briggs Freeman. And the price was? $4,9995,000 Now...
View ArticleAsk Candy: How Will ForeclosureGate Affect Dallas Real Estate?
Here’s the “world is falling apart ” take from an anonymous source in the financial services industry — who knows whether to believe him/her or not. The points have a ring of sense – could the the...
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Ask Candy: How ForeclosureGate Will Affect Dallas Real Estate — It’s a Fire...
Gina Branch, ABR of RE/MAX Dallas Suburbs, offers a response to our Eager seller of the day who hasn’t seen any movement in her $150k home on the market for a week: Dear Eager: This is a great question...
View ArticleHighest Property Tax Rates in the Country
Given: People who live in bigger houses pay more in property taxes and people on the east coast of the U.S. pay the highest property taxes as a percentage of home value. The folks in Westchester...
View ArticleAre Texas Tenants Really Deadbeats?
So last week I took Ben Fountain to task for telling the world through the New York Times about the effect of our “Z” sales. He implied they falsely elevate prices by keeping the lower prices out of...
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Ask Candy: When Can You Fire Your Realtor?
She doesn’t work Sundays, Mondays or any evenings. You pre-pay for her assistant when you list with her. And her website hasn’t worked in four months. Though she’s in Cali, I have heard this story in...
View ArticleMortgage Changed Hands In the Last Six Years? MERS Could Be Your Mortgagee
Let me see if I get this: all that genius securitization of mortgages had one bank selling notes to another. Over and over again. This entity called MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration System) was...
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Kevin Jonas and Bride to Flee Vaquero Manse: D Sale of the Week
Photos by Luxuryfoto.com Oh Kevin, Danielle: where are you going? Is 2000 Rock Dove Court just too close to mom and dad and the bros over on Wisteria? (We hope not!) Late Saturday night, K2 as he is...
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Plano Is So Boring. No One Ever Gets Killed Up There!
Well, except for the teenage heroin deaths, but that was a whole generation ago. Forbes selected the safest cities in America and our Plano, Texas tops the list! “There are still plenty of U.S. cities...
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Ask Candy: Need A Structural Engineer for Foundation Issues?
This hot, dry summer probably did in a lot of foundations, so this question doesn’t surprise me – Dear Candy: We moved into a pier and beam house last year. At the time, we knew it had some small...
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Why I Love Living in Fort Worth: A Guest Post
The West 7th development. A young friend of mine named John J. Stathas is a law student over at Texas Wesleyan Law School in Fort Worth who has been telling me for awhile why he loves Cowtown. I mean,...
View ArticleCandy Evans Signing Off DMagazine.com
If the real estate market has universal lessons for us, it is that change is inevitable. My passion for the subject and the industry and everyone in it has led me to pursue full-time my work nationally...
View ArticleSaying Goodbye (For Now) to DallasDirt
For all you daily devourers of Candy’s news and views about Dallas real estate, we hope that the Rangers’ big win on Friday helped you overcome the sorrow you felt upon hearing the news that our real...
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