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Let This Palm Beach Neoclassical Transport You to Warmer Weather

By CandysDirt / February 16, 2021 /

Tired of sub-freezing temperatures? Need a mental escape? We have just the thing. Feast your eyes on this neoclassical revival in Palm Beach that’s sure to make your heart skip a beat. The five-bedroom, six-full-and-one-half-bathroom mansion is an absolute stunner, with recent renovations, and a sparkling pool for soaking up all that Florida sunshine.  Be…

Burleson Native Kelly Clarkson Lists Two Incredible Mansions

By CandysDirt / February 14, 2021 /

In 2002, Grammy award-winning singer Kelly Clarkson was making $13 an hour passing out free Red Bulls at popular Fort Worth hangout Joe Pool Lake. That was the summer the Burleson native auditioned for American Idol. A few months later, over 20 million people watched her win the whole shebang — including a $1 million RCA…

New Homesites Coming at Steamboat’s Record-Setting Alpine Mountain Ranch

By CandysDirt / February 13, 2021 /

Alpine Mountain Ranch & Club in Steamboat Springs, Colorado continues to set records! Its recent unprecedented sales volume in 2020 includes 10 homesites and custom homes sold, with new market homes on the way. The ranch community, known for delivering authentic luxury, is demonstrating future growth as it breaks ground on three new custom market homes you…

New Home-Search Apps Equip Buyers with Real-Time Info, Agent Chat Feature

By CandysDirt / February 13, 2021 /

Home buying hasn’t always been as (relatively) easy as it is today. In ye olden times, fax machines, rolodexes (rolodi?), and landlines were the tools in the agent toolbox, and the search took place over the course of weeks and sometimes months. (In pre-MLS days, listings were delivered to brokerages every few weeks in catalog…

Goodbye Closing Table, Hello Rapid Close

By CandysDirt / February 6, 2021 /

While residential real estate was, and always will be a “relationship” business, COVID-19 has hastened what was already coming for the industry: game-changing tech solutions for buyers and sellers, resulting in a more efficient and seamless home buying and selling journey. Developers have been hard at work over the last year rolling out products that…