Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
In case you have not noticed, real estate rentals of single family homes are soaring. Our friends at Zillow just paid $16 million for the real estate rental search site HotPads. Zillow says it is making this hefty acquisition to “expand the size of its growing rental audience and extend the reach of its marketing tools and productivity solutions for rental professionals.” Naturally, rentals rule in large cities like New York, San Francisco and Boston where real estate prices are high, the population is younger, more transient and there are more high density units to choose from.
CoreLogic Inc. says home prices in the Dallas area rose by 4.5 percent in October, up from a year earlier. Nationwide, some areas saw a 6.3 percent increase when looking back at October 2011. Pulling out those distressed home sales, which CoreLogic does so well and why I like this index better than Case-Shiller, we…
OK, I have officially had it. This is a real estate blog, and nearly every single day I get five requests from someone offering me “free” stories to post. You know what they say about anything free. I usually respond nicely, kindly, as my mother raised me. I tell them this is a professional blog…
Update, Monday December 3: 360 degree views of Big D from this penthouse including a rooftop terrace with view of the bridge:. 2635 sf. 3 bedrooms, 4 baths, formal dining. And oh yes, it’s leased! Ah, the Maple Terrace. Dallas’ very first “million dollar apartment house”, and no barf beige! The elegant stucco Dallas Landmark…
