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Modern Luxury Uses 2026 Real Estate Awards to Take Pulse of Local Real Estate

By CandysDirt / February 5, 2026 /

CandysDirt.com readers spend plenty of time watching the Dallas real estate market — tracking trends, touring listings, and keeping tabs on the agents and brokers shaping the industry. Now’s the chance to weigh in. Our friends at Modern Luxury Dallas have opened nominations for its 2026 Real Estate Awards, their annual recognition of the professionals…

Alli Caudle Bush’s Labor of Love: Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s Agent Lists Her Knox Retreat

By CandysDirt / February 4, 2026 /

Real estate advisor Alli Caudle Bush is used to guiding clients through sometimes emotional purchases and sales. She just never imagined it could happen to her one day. We sit down with the expert agent at Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty to talk about 3510 Edgewater Street in Dallas — not only her own first home…

Find Serenity on Surrey Circle in This Bernbaum/Magadini Architects Beauty

By CandysDirt / February 3, 2026 /

Tucked quietly into the beloved Upper Devonshire neighborhood and set on nearly a half-acre across from a tranquil lake, 5420 Surrey Circle unfolds as a masterclass in warm, livable contemporary design. Now offered by Allie Beth Allman & Associates agent Lucinda Buford, 5420 Surrey Circle is looking for its next chapter. If a home is…

Fiscal Folly: Why Another Sports Arena Won’t Fix Downtown Dallas

By CandysDirt / February 2, 2026 /

Dallas, It’s Time to Stop Chasing Arenas and Start Building a City By Norman Alston FAIA, Principal Norman Alston Architects Downtown Dallas shines at night — the dazzling skyline, the pulsing street life, the promise of a city constantly reinventing itself. For decades, local leaders have sought ways to make that promise real, to bring…

Both Sides of the Aisle Don’t Understand Housing Affordability

By CandysDirt / February 2, 2026 /

By Jonathan MillerSpecial Contributor Takeways No Apparent Connection Between Affordability and Institutional Ownership The administration has said it is “immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single‑family homes” and will ask Congress to codify the policy, emphasizing that “people live in homes, not corporations.” Conceptually, the ban targets private‑equity funds and…