Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
I’m not talking about showing homes, I mean, where did you run for safety when the tornado sirens started blaring? I was out driving, looking at homes — OMG I’ve got the scoop on 4511 Watauga coming up, Jeeze Louise 13,000 square feet and another double-level closet! What is it with these two story master closets? My daughter texts me that there are tornadoes, my husband tells me everyone at Presbyterian has gone to the basement! So I drive home to our tornado closet, stopping to warn every yard man I could! There were two men in a tree, chopping wood, and I thought, my God, they will be blown away! Our yard men were on the mowers with ear protectors on, I had to flag them down and drag them into our garage while I made room in the storm closet. The way it is now, our junk will survive a tornado while we are blown away! I hope others of you were in more elegant locations. Like Doris Jacobs: she was lunching at the Mansion, and everyone ran down to the Mansion basement for cover. (The wine cellar is down there, too, hmmm.) Remind me to schedule lunch with Doris at the Mansion or Fearings next time a storm rolls into town.
Empty trucks tossed like toys earlier this afternoon in Lancaster. Tuesday is MLS Day and the storms hit shortly after most tours ended. Meantime, working with any banks in the areas on this new power outage map from Oncor, you may have a closing or two delayed.
Recent convo with an agent who is seeing a problem in the market with new listings right now. Because the first quarter of 2012 was brisk, he thinks maybe prices are goosing up. Quarter One was brisk because buyers and sellers had become more reasonable, not because prices were up. When that excitement is “improperly communicated”, sellers start “overpricing” their homes, because of the perception that the market is busy, he says.
Love the outdoors? Dream of sitting on a balconey gazing right into Mother Nature, watching the birds flutter? This house at 11311 Lanewood Circle is for you. Lochwood is hands-down one of the most affordable little micro-communities in Lakewood, and here again is a great not-so- little house (1790 square feet) for less than $250,000 (this…
Naturally, I won’t sleep until I find out who got the winning bid on Champ d’Or this weekend and how much they paid — confidentiality clauses are the bain of my existence. I’m getting a few clues. We know it was a Dallas family — Preston Hollow, I’ve heard — with international connections. Many readers have…
