Celebrity Real Estate

More Realtors Should Adopt This Tag Line: Get a Bigger House, Not a Divorce

By Candy Evans / July 2, 2012 /

This area code is out of Toronto. Now that Obamacare has cleared the Supreme Court, perhaps we can adapt Canadian real estate tag lines as well?

Dallas Real Estate: Does (Ivy) School Spirit Help Sell Your House?

By Candy Evans / June 30, 2012 /

If you are squinting, that’s a Vanderbilt flag flying proudly outside this house. Will that help it sell and fetch a pretty price? Would a Harvard Princeton Brown Cornell Penn Columbia Dartmouth flag fetch more?

Building with the Boys: Tim and Justin Are Building, AGAIN, This Time, Brand Spanking New

By Candy Evans / June 27, 2012 /

The boys are back, this time I think they are just stalking me.

You may recall Tim Loecker and Justin Kettler when I wrote for D Home Mag, when I lauded them for saving North Dallas ranches one house at a time. It seems these two can never be satisfied with their home, which is why I love them.

Museum Tower Update: Is Bad Publicity the Media’s Fault?

By Candy Evans / June 26, 2012 /

Interesting stories out of the Dallas Morning News and really, everywhere, today on Museum Tower. While we think the two parties, the Nasher Museum and Museum Tower, have been negotiating diligently under the capable eyes of Tom Luce, we first get word today that negotiations may have all but broken down, and that litigation may…

State of the Real Estate Market: Are We Recovering Addicts? Do We Still Need Betty Ford?

By Candy Evans / June 26, 2012 /

I have just returned from the “Mile-High City” where they have altitude, medicinal marijuana and a pretty decent real estate market. I was at the annual National Association of Real Estate Editors conference where, for four days, we nutcakes who obsess about real estate lived and breathed it 24/7, consuming information. And alcohol. The main take-away: enjoy that drink. Significant declines in the number of homes for sale in many U.S. markets, and fewer foreclosures (or foreclosures on hold) are boosting the country’s battered housing market. I spoke at length to two of my favorite economists, Stan Humphries of Zillow, and Mark Fleming from CoreLogic, who gave me this zippy summary up in the hospitality suite of the Brown Palace Hotel: