Joanna England
Joanna England is the former long-time executive editor and a founding editor at CandysDirt.com.
On June 24, Plano lender First Guaranty Mortgage notified more than 400 of its employees during a virtual call that they no longer had jobs at the company. According to the company’s WARN Act filing with the Texas Workforce Commission, the mass layoff was the result of “significant operating losses and cash flow challenges due…
Texas is a business-friendly state, and thanks to corporations relocating their headquarters and offices to North Texas, we’ve had an influx of new residents. And while Texas is still firmly a red state, not all of those new residents are all that red. In fact, many of them are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and…
Real estate is a business that gets under your skin. It’s not uncommon to see someone in finance move into real estate sales and truly excel. After 15 years in finance, (including at the prestigious Goldman Sachs prior to that), a business opportunity through Raleigh Green’s consulting business Emerald Consulting Partners was the impetus for…
Realtor Prime Blankenship III has an announcement to make: Prospective buyers don’t know what to make of this market. Also, he says, “Water is wet.” It may not be news to you, but Blankenship, a Realtor with Scottie Smith and Associates, says that the general confusion from buyers has pushed the market in an interesting…
Is buyer demand waning? According to the latest data from ShowingTime, fewer buyers are showing up to tour properties on the market. Buyer competition for listings was slightly subdued in April as 103 markets across the country recorded double-digit showings per listing, compared to 146 in April 2021 and 121 in March of 2022. Overall,…
