April Towery
April Towery is former News Development Director for CandysDirt.com and covers Dallas City Hall. She studied journalism at Texas A&M University and has been an award-winning reporter and editor for more than 25 years.
As the summer temperatures climb, so do prices on lake home and lot listings – surging $9 billion since February, according to a report released exclusively to Candy’s Dirt by national Alabama-based Lake Homes Realty. The good news, however, is that more options are available for those seeking waterfront property. The Summer 2022 Lake Market…
Moments after news alerts announced that shots were fired at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on Tuesday, May 24, the country reacted. Some were angry; some were devastated; some tried to find someone to blame. And some — like the agents with Keller Williams Realty — found a way to help. “We certainly are helping,”…
Toni Youngblood began her sales career at a young age, peddling skateboards around the Dallas suburbs. “My dad used to always tell me I should sell houses instead of skateboards, but I couldn’t imagine myself as your typical blazer-wearing real estate agent with name tags and pointy high heels,” Youngblood said. And trading a blazer…
Wildfire risk is often dismissed in Texas as something that residents of rural areas of California have to worry about, but that’s just not the case. Notice the experts don’t say “forest fires” anymore. That’s because these rapidly-spreading blazes are happening in the wildland/urban interface — your neighborhoods. More than 11,000 acres of Texas land…
A Frisco developer who bilked more than 300 people out of millions of dollars in a real estate investment scheme was sentenced this week to 45 years in state prison. Christian Custom Homes CEO Phillip Michael Carter also was ordered to pay $30 million in restitution. Carter also served as the principal of Texas Cash…
