Joanna England
Joanna England is the Executive Editor at CandysDirt.com and covers the North Texas housing market.
With how fast the housing stock of Dallas is turning over, it’s easy to see a lot of the newer builds as bland, cookie-cutter, and dry. But when owners take the basics and elevate them, it turns what was once a boring shell into a real knockout. That’s what happened with this Oak Lawn townhome…
Read MoreCelina is growing at a break-neck pace, and developers are working to add rooftops as fast as they can. To bring more housing stock to the increasingly populous North Texas suburb, Hillwood Communities has purchased the 1,380-acre Eland Ranch spanning from Preston Road to Custer Road to develop a master-planned community dubbed Ramble. The development,…
Read MoreWhen StoryBuilt abruptly went belly up, it left several sites that were under development in limbo. One of the most notable was the site of StoryBuilt’s Goose development, which was planned for Walnut Hill Lane and White Rock Trail and was supposed to bring single-family homes right next door to Stillwater Capital’s White Rock Bluffs…
Read MoreThere has been no other time in my life that I wished so hard that I was in the market for a home than right now. I’m one of those people who has way too much equity and a crazy low rate that buying a home right now would not be the best idea, but…
Read MoreWith its name emblazoned on one of the tallest buildings in downtown Dallas, you’d never guess that Comerica Bank would be a company to initiate a huge cost-cutting scheme that meant massive layoffs and closed branches, but that’s exactly what happened Jan. 22. The workforce reduction, which equates to 250 jobs, is a significant cut…
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