Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
Your tax appraisals are supposed to be in the mail today, which means we will all be drinking a lot tomorrow. “The average increase for almost every homeowner will be around 14%, is what we have heard,” says our Tax Doctor, Rob Wheelock. Why? “Look at Case-Shiller and sales, look at what you have been…
Bravo for the Fiji Townhomes! Steve Brown tells us, via housing analyst Metrostudy, that brand new starter homes, those still smelling of lumber and sawdust, now top $300,000 in sales in DFW. Which means they are almost 50 percent — not quite, but almost — more than an existing home. The median price for an average…
There was plenty of great food, great wine, music and people, lots of people, on hand to celebrate the opening of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty’s new Plano office located in the Shops of Legacy on the north side of Legacy, in the same building as Publicis Public Relations. Everyone had fun and got home before…
I read about this Tuesday: why would the city spend $4.6 million to put a hideous pedestrian walkway connecting an empty lot to an auto parts store across the street? Is this what our city geniuses envision for Preston Center? Robert Wilonsky did some heavy digging on the “bridge to nowhere” for the Dallas Morning News, and…
Plaintiff David Pickett, trustee of the Albert Hill Trust, has filed a petition to get Al G. Hill III and his wife, Erin Nance Hill, to agree to sell their old Highland Park abode on Bordeaux, or at least talk about it. Seems the house is unoccupied (according to the petition) and has sustained some…
