Joanna England

Joanna England is the former long-time executive editor and a founding editor at CandysDirt.com.

Carolyn Rosson Named Brokerage President at Ebby Halliday After Four Decades With The Firm

By Joanna England / September 12, 2022 /

Forty-one years at the Ebby Halliday Companies has earned Carolyn Rosson a lot of things. But it’s her leadership, tenacity, and hard work that made her the obvious choice as President of Brokerage for the brand. Rosson, who was most recently a Senior Vice President at Ebby Halliday, also co-leads the firm’s successful Southlake office.…

North Dallas-Park Cities Area Realtor Meetings Are Back And Sweeter With Candy

By Joanna England / September 11, 2022 /

The global pandemic has made it hard to network as a Realtor. Every week, Realtors in several areas throughout the North Texas region would attend MLS Meetings for breakfast or coffee and then tour nearby listings. The meetings were also a social hub — a way to connect friendly faces with names and share information…

After 15 Years in East Dallas’ Casa View Haven, The Only Constant is Change

By Joanna England / September 2, 2022 /

This was the year it happened. Mark it down in your history books and alert the media, because 2022 was the year that Casa View, an East Dallas neighborhood that had been fighting to reinvest in itself for the better part of the last two decades, has finally arrived. How do we know Casa View…

It’s Flooding in North Texas. Does That Mean You Should Cancel Your Listing Appointment?

By Joanna England / August 22, 2022 /

It’s a rude awakening to find out that the house you just bought essentially becomes landlocked as your neighborhood becomes surrounded by inches of slow-to-drain water during a hard rain. That’s what some new Dallas-Fort Worth homeowners found out this morning as historic rainfall and the accompanying flash flooding affects the North Texas region. In…

Is it a Buyer’s Market? Home Sales Are Down And Inventory is up, But Interest Rates Aren’t Helping

By Joanna England / August 21, 2022 /

The National Association of Realtors just released a report showing existing home sales sliding by 5.9 percent in July from the previous month. That’s the sixth month in a row of declining sales numbers. Statewide statistics reflect a cooling market, too, with closed sales down 16.1 percent for July according to recently released numbers from…