Joanna England
Joanna England is the former long-time executive editor and a founding editor at CandysDirt.com.
What’s a better indicator of a healthy rental market than higher prices for in-demand properties? In the Dallas-Plano-Irving area, rents are on their way up to the tune of 19 percent over 3 years, according to the folks at Local Market Monitor. The real estate market analysis shows a period of slow growth during 2010,…
If you love a place that has tons of raw potential, this cozy cottage in Linwood Place is your next home. There is a lot to love about this two-bedroom, one-bath home, but I won’t sugarcoat the schizophrenia-inducing tile in this house. If you’re up to a project, grab your trowel and grout sponge, because…
Amazing? Beautiful? Incredible? Stunning? Jaw-Dropping? I’ve run through the gamut of adjectives trying to describe 5625 Netherland Court, an unbelievable listing from the one and only Kari Schlegel, and yet every one of them falls short. Is this love, that I’m feeling? This five-bedroom home screams “ART COLLECTOR!” with a gallery hallway just off the…
Maribeth Peters of Allie Beth Allman & Associates sent in this week’s Friday Five Hundred, a Hip Pocket listing in Greenway Crest. “It is so hard to find a pretty two-story traditional home in Area 25 and at a reasonable price under $600,000 with an amazing Master Suite,” Peters said. If you know someone who’s on…
Sometimes you see traces of what an older home used to look like through the slick veneer of fresh paint and new flooring. Perhaps the cabinets in the kitchen get a refacing and the paneling in a bedroom is stripped and recoated, but under decades of haphazard updating is a mystery. If the anthropologist in…
