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Sellers Prepared for Slower Market, But Unclear on Costs of Selling a Home

By Candy's Dirt / March 3, 2019 /

The majority of sellers in 2019 are prepared to deal with a slower housing market, know they need an agent, but are still unclear on costs associated with selling a home, a new report revealed. The report by Clever.com found that 65 percent of those surveyed were aware that 2019 might signal a slowdown in…

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People Love to Relocate to Texas — Especially DFW

By Candy's Dirt / February 17, 2019 /
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Texas welcomed 524,511 new residents in 2017, and 230,118 of them found homes in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan Statistical Area, the latest Texas Relocation Report from Texas REALTORS® revealed. The report, which was released on Valentine’s Day, analyzed migration data from the U.S. Census Bureau and U-Haul, found that Texas ranked second in the nation…

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Dallas Opens Second Round of Artist Microresidencies

By Candy's Dirt / February 9, 2019 /
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Are you creative? If so, the city of Dallas might just have a spot for you in a unique program that provides microresidencies within city departments to foster creative solutions. The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs announced this week that it was opening up the second round of microresidencies, which are aimed at…

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Rents Are Higher in North Texas Suburbs, Exburbs

By Candy's Dirt / February 9, 2019 /

Dallas proper posted moderate rent increases, but it was the area suburbs and exburbs that saw the biggest apartment rents in 2018, RentCafe revealed in a recent report. Flower Mound posted the highest rent at $1,526 (despite only having a minimal increase of 0.1 percent), higher than Farmers Branch and Frisco with average rents of…

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Tiny Home Evangelist B.A. Norrgard Finally Launches North Texas Village

By Candy's Dirt / February 8, 2019 /

From Staff Reports Ever since B.A. Norrgard launched her website and tiny home tour, the goal was to get more people to understand tiny home living and sustainability. The more people on smaller footprints there are, her reasoning followed, the more successful communal tiny home villages would be. She’s let countless people traipse through her…

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