Commercial Real Estate

Dallas Commercial Agents Get a Trial CompStak Account on CandysDirt.com…

By Candy Evans / December 10, 2013 /

You have no doubt read our piece about the coolest site to hit the Dallas commercial real estate world, and as usual you heard it first here on CandysDirt.com. Sign-up is so easy. Just go to CompStak.com and click Join.  Use “LONESTAR” as a promo code, which will get new users about 10 free comps.…

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A New Company is About to Shake Up Dallas Commercial Real Estate… Welcome to Big D, CompStak!

By Candy Evans / December 10, 2013 /

Great timing: just about the time our mercury is heading north to melt the ice, New York-based CompStak is launching in Dallas to melt down walls about pricing and other juicy terms of the deal in Dallas commercial real estate. What is CompStak? A new tech company that aims to create transparency in commercial real…

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Remember the Roy’s Transmission and Autocare Saga in Bishop Arts? Well, Looks Like Roy’s Struck a $375K Deal with Our Tax Dollars

By Candy Evans / May 21, 2013 /

Last December I had my hissy fit about Roy’s Transmission & Autocare at 138 W. Davis. The shop lies splat in the center of the city’s plans to create a cute million dollar plus plaza and streetcar stop at Zang and Seventh. Basically, Roy Smith has been fixing cars at this location for 18 years. The city wants to buy Smith’s tire shop property to build a way cool entrance to Bishop Arts, including a children’s playground. Smith has no objections except the green kind: he wants to be paid enough money to relocate and get another business. Last year, he said he had his property appraised at $775,000 when the city offered him “only” about $205,000.

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Let's Gondola Over to Dallas Midtown Valley View… Shaping Up as a New Dallas Community

By Candy Evans / April 4, 2013 /

Valley View Shopping Center is shaping up on paper like a Victoria’s Secret glossy ad, but one thing’s for sure: it may never again look like the Valley View Mall many of us grew up with! I will never forget the opening of Bloomingdales over there, how cool was that? Alas, now Valley View is…

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