Joanna England
Joanna England is the former long-time executive editor and a founding editor at CandysDirt.com.
December is typically a slow month for the real estate industry. It’s a time when agents focus more energy on maintaining contact with potential clients and leads and finishing up those long-overdue continuing education credits. So when Jacquelyn Kohlschmidt was asked to list this Carter Ranch home this time of year, the seller didn’t expect…
If the pandemic taught us Dallasites anything, it’s the importance of having access to water in the summer. Pool memberships, trips to more temperate climates, and bids for backyard pools (especially East Dallas homes with a pool) were the name of the game as North Texas residents tried to escape the heat while not getting…
It seems cruel that, just when listings are posting “price improvements” and the number of days on market are inching upward, interest rates are making what was once buying power for a $400,000 home barely enough to snatch up something in the $300s. According to the most recent housing affordability report from the Texas Real…
It wasn’t that long ago that newspapers were quaking in their boots at the prospect of Craigslist, a free peer-to-peer buy/sell/trade site that would eventually be the death knell of the traditional classified section. Likewise, could Opendoor’s expansion of Opendoor Exclusives into a peer-to-peer marketplace mean the end of the Multiple Listing Service as we…
When I lived in Junius Heights, the area was still knee-deep in transition. One brilliantly restored Craftsman bungalow could be seen right next to an almost falling down Prairie-style home that was converted to a four-plex. To say that the neighborhood has come a long way since then would be the understatement of the year.…
