Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
Live from MetroTex 2014 — Top housing issues we face: sustaining double digit annual price increases? Higher mortgage interest rates? Higher labor and construction costs? Closing down the Fannies: will the private mortgage market be able to fund housing ?
Well we cannot blame this one on the Republicans: the Dallas real estate market, which had been in a heated frenzy ever since about January 2, has finally cooled heels a bit. It started on Labor Day, Ebby agent Kay Weeks told Steve Brown, when higher mortgage rates and economic uncertainties cooled the market as…
Just poached this from Keith Yonick’s Facebook page because I think it is hilarious! He says a new reality show is in the works called The Real Estate Switch -a show about a sophisticated, urban agent in Oak Lawn who switches places with a long time good ole boy. “I have to make pimento cheese…
You have heard of Dines & Kraft style homes, yes? They are those rock-solid, sturdy homes with fascinating detail, stained glass and a Tudoresque-feel clustered in what is now known as the Lakewood Conservation District. They were designed by Dines & Kraft in the 1920s and 30s, Dines and Kraft simply being Dallas developers who built exceptionally well-constructed…
Update 11:03 a.m. Oh wait, this photo came out of Mustang, OK, SHOCKER. Says the homeowner: “Just trying to scare people, that’s what I like to do,” said Johnne Mullins, of Mustang, Oklahoma, in defense of his “Halloween prank”. Scare, he did: neighbors called the police.
