Joanna England
Joanna England is the former long-time executive editor and a founding editor at CandysDirt.com.
For the longest time, agents didn’t need to host a formal open house for their properties. For sellers, listing their home was like the dating pool of your average 20-year-old — there were no shortages of suitors and they all brought something to the table. Lately, the market for both new and existing homes has…
The 46th annual Lakewood Home Festival chairs want you to grab your popcorn, because they just announced the tour stops for the Nov. 12-13 bombshell event. After taking the last couple of years off from traipsing through some incredible real estate due to the pandemic. The Lakewood Home Festival tour is a must-do, mostly because…
My AirPods were blasting Depeche Mode on a recent morning run with my two dogs when all of a sudden I had a faceful of fine, silky thread. I hadn’t even noticed that my neighbor’s tree had seemingly transformed overnight from a healthy hackberry into something you might see in the Addams family’s yard. The…
Business for Dallas-Fort Worth homebuilders has changed drastically since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. While demand for new housing stock created market conditions that had builders canceling contracts with buyers and cutting out agents, a new report from the National Association of Home Builders shows a steep decline in outlooks for homebuilders in the…
Chris Sandlin has been waiting for some time as his two projects make their way through the building permit queue at the City of Dallas’ Development Services office. When he submitted his paperwork, the projected wait time was about four weeks. “From what I hear, and from my own experience, the average wait time for…
