Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
Last week we learned in the Dallas Morning News that about 3,000 elderly (that is, folks over age 65) and disabled Dallas County property owners are due for a fiscal surprise because of a computer glitch in the Dallas County Appraisal District that miscalculated their 2010 tax bills. That surprise is a higher tax bill than…
Those who live there say Northwood Hills may just be Dallas’ best kept secret. Located just north of LBJ along Hillcrest Road, the neighborhood has a high-end aesthetic with a small town feel. Richardson schools are a huge plus. There are 1125 homes in Northwood, average leafy lots of one-half an acre, and affordable home…
Some really great open houses await you in Bluffview and Lakewood… details over on CandysDirt.com.
Not a good week for second home owners. Sir Richard Branson’s home in the Caribbean burned to the ground after being struck by apparant lightening while housing actress Kate Winslet and her children, and even Branson’s children, enjoyed the famous spread that has housed Oprah, among other VIPs, on a private island in the British Virgin Islands.…
This is one of those really great homes that is very much like a fine young wine. Not too old, not too young and sassy, but just right. Over the seven year itch, all the kinkys have been worked out. Blue chip real estate. 4501 Cherokee Trail was built in 1999 in the highly coveted Bluffview…