Joanna England
Joanna England is the former long-time executive editor and a founding editor at CandysDirt.com.
A jury convicted Kosoul Chanthakoummane in the 2006 murder of Sarah Ann Walker, a McKinney real estate agent that was found brutally assaulted and murdered in a McKinney model home, and after a lengthy appeals process, the State of Texas has executed him by lethal injection on Wednesday, Aug. 17. Walker was found dead on…
Some of my Millennial friends have been buoyed enough by the recent spate of price reductions to reenter the market. That’s saying something, considering that many of them have already tried at least twice and have turned back to apartment living after months of submitting offer after offer only to lose out to cash buyers.…
Joanna England: In the East Dallas neighborhood of Little Forest Hills, the tidy cottages once favored as holiday homes have unique appeal. Unfortunately, not all buyers or builders see the value in keeping these almost 100-year-old homes standing. However, this particular Friday Four Hundred from February is a fantastic example of how a Little Forest…
When Diane Cheatham started selling lots for her Lake Highlands-area development Urban Reserve, she knew that the environmentally sensitive, modern design standards of the neighborhood wouldn’t appeal to everyone. But they’d resonate with a select audience of architecture lovers. In that pool of buyers was Robert D. Troy. An architect, he designed a home for…
Sounds like those former employees who said that First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation was “essentially shuttered” weren’t wrong. The Plano-based lender and its affiliate, Maverick II Holdings, have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. First Guaranty laid off approximately 75 percent of its workforce last Friday in a mass call, citing “significant operating losses and cash…
