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Monday Morning Millionaire: Buy Former Dallas Cowboy Bob Breunig's Lake Highlands Home and Maybe You, Too, Will Be Father of the Year

By Candy Evans / August 26, 2013 /

Today we are heading over to Oak Highland Estates in Lake Highlands, where some of the best values in Dallas real estate are to be found — obviously former Dallas Cowboy Bob Breunig knew it, that’s why he lived here for umpteen years! Breuning, you may recall,  started 117 straight games, retired after the 1984 Cowboy’s…

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Outside the Frame: Listing Photos Give a Valuable First Impression, Says First Showing Photography

By Karen Eubank / August 23, 2013 /

(Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final installment of our “Outside the Frame” series that offers the insights of Dallas’ leading real estate photographers on subjects that are both important and often controversial in the industry. Check out our first, second, and third installments for more.)

Today we chat with Jason of First Showing Photography, who feels that professional photography makes a first impression that sticks with buyers regardless of how a home shows. So why can’t professional photographers manage to charge more for their services? Find out this and more with our final installment of “Outside the Frame” after the jump.

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Outside the Frame: Lance Selgo of Unique Exposure Photography Dishes the Dirt on Shooting Real Estate

By Karen Eubank / August 19, 2013 /

We at CandysDirt.com talk a lot about the importance of professional real estate photography, and we show a lot of lovely photographs every day. Although we’ve been know to rock the boat when we show a home that is in less-than-stellar shape, we’re focused on showcasing Dallas homes, education, and selling real estate.

Recently The National Association of Realtors and Google collaborated on a report called Digital House Hunt that offers some impressive statistics that confirm what we’ve always thought: Professional photography is an essential part of the marketing package.

The report reveals that today’s home shopper is totally “plugged in” with 90 percent searching online and 89 percent using a mobile search engine. Google reports that real estate searches have grown 253 percent in four years. So what are they seeing in those searches? Photographs of course. Those photographs are what make a potential buyer want to see the house. So we asked four of our Dallas real estate photographers to give us some of their insights.

The first photographer in our four-part series is Lance Selgo of Unique Exposure Photography. Check out what he has to say after the jump!

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Monday Morning Millionaire: Weldon Turner-Designed Beauty at 3800 Miramar Evokes Fooshee & Cheek

By Candy Evans / August 12, 2013 /

I’m just back from the beach, so I was catching up on my news reading when I saw that there was some pretty hairy crime in the Park Cities. But I’m not going to let the news of a robbery at knifepoint make you think that Highland Park isn’t a safe place to make your…

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Dallas Market Reports From CoreLogic, Case-Schiller, and Local Market Monitor Show Record Increases, Optimistic Forecasts

By Joanna England / August 2, 2013 /

It’s Friday, so we want to give you some good news that should hold you over through the weekend’s open houses, while you hover expectantly over the fax machine waiting for a seller to accept your client’s offer. First, the Dallas real estate market has fully recovered to pre-recession levels. Second, foreclosure inventory in Texas…

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