Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
The venerable Case-Shiller report that tracks pre-owned home sales, not new builders homes or subdivisions, puts Dallas near the top of the list of cities with the biggest home price gains. Which is, of course, impressive. Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller home price index says Dallas-area home prices were up 9 percent from February of 2015.…
Konrad Putzier, a reporter at The Real Deal in New York City, tweeted this chart yesterday. It shows the plight of NYC’s millennials: 28.4% work in retail or hospitality – up from 21.9% in 2000 – but wages are down. Annual wages in retail or hospitality are less than $30,000 a year in one of…
Is Dallas becoming LA? We have been harping on this for quite some time, but now the mainstream media seems to have taken a whiff of real estate smelling salts. First-time homebuyers (who don’t get lump sum down payment help from Mom and Dad) are out of luck finding affordable homes and will continue to…
Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty agents will have a new Director of Marketing come May 1. Paul Wooldridge, a marketing genius who also happens to be a Millennial, worked in media sales at FD Luxe and for the last two years as National Account Manager at job search website operator Monster Worldwide. He replaces Ellen…
After their expansion west to Fort Worth, and east to Lakewood, where else will Briggs Freeman International Realty go? North to Plano and Two Billion Dollar Mile, where they will christen a new office in the Shops of Legacy Tuesday afternoon. We know that two of the fastest-growing American cities by percentage, Plano and Frisco,…
