Joanna England
Joanna England is the former long-time executive editor and a founding editor at CandysDirt.com.
It was when Heidi Frederick was working in sales at Yahoo! and later at Publicis Worldwide that she became completely obsessed with the idea of selling homes. “I was fascinated with homes and how people surround themselves with their own personal idea of beauty,” Frederick said. She turned that obsession into a successful career as…
In some historic neighborhoods, the interiors of Craftsman, Prairie, and Tudor homes can be a mixed bag. Many of the structures in the Kings Highway Conservation District in North Oak Cliff were built between 1910 and 1930, and though many of them have been remodeled and updated, it’s rare to find a property that takes…
The pace at which Centurion American is buying land and building master-planned communities up north should tell you just how bullish the Farmers Branch-based developer is about the Sherman silicon corridor. Considering the influx of rooftops that Texas Instruments’ Sherman semiconductor plant is drawing, the Texoma region is set to blow up. Centurion American just…
Donald Wright is unflappable. The calm, level-headed member of the WrightHouse Group at Ebby Halliday Realtors stays cool even during heated negotiations. He’s a consummate professional with his clients and a kind and caring friend to those close to him. So when a man shouted a racial epithet at Wright as the Realtor was chatting…
Interest rate increases are affecting a lot more than just a home buyer’s ability to close on a single-family home. Skyrocketing costs for labor and materials, combined with fast-rising interest rates, are keeping buyers from building their dream homes, too. According to new nationwide numbers from the National Association of Home Builders, single-family permits were…
