Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
A few months ago, my son bought a home in the Peninsula area of San Francisco, home of the priciest real estate in the country. I assumed they were getting a shack, but paying for a mansion. The equivalent of our M Streets homes or 1950’s mid century moderns go for $800,000 plus on the…
We may have breakfast bars in the master, but long ago, before there was air conditioning in the south, people of means did not have kitchens in the main house. I learned this years ago while purchasing a home in San Antonio. Up north, in my freezing native Illinois prairie lands, we wanted those kitchens…
I have a pet peeve: I hate it when I cannot find addresses, be it on commercial buildings or residential homes. One of the first things you do when you market your home for sale is make sure people can damn well FIND it! That means clear numbers somewhere where they can be seen, not…
Robbie Briggs, whose firms Briggs Freeman Sothebys, is marketing Museum Tower, is also disappointed that the Nasher has turned down Museum Tower’s offer to completely redo the Nasher roof and move on so he can move some properties. MT’s offer is one he called “generous”. “It would be a lot more fun if the whole Arts…
Robbie Briggs, whose firms Briggs Freeman Sothebys, is marketing Museum Tower, is also disappointed that the Nasher has turned down Museum Tower’s offer to completely redo the Nasher roof and move on so he can move some properties. MT’s offer is one he called “generous”. “It would be a lot more fun if the whole Arts…
