Dallas Real Estate News

Ask The Tax Doctor: What’s That 65 Homestead Exemption? Sure is Fuzzy…

By Candy Evans / March 21, 2012 /

A reader writes, our Tax Doctor Tiffany Hamil responds: Dear Candy: I am confused by the age 65 homestead deal in our state. Is it the same in each county? When you turn 65 do you get a break on your property taxes or are they just frozen? I understand this is because property taxes…

Champ d’Or Chalked Up Mega Pageviews on MSNBC.COM Today

By Candy Evans / March 21, 2012 /

This is why auctions can be so darn effective: Champ d’Or is getting a Texas-sized dose of publicity not just here but all over the world now. I shot a video for Zillow there last week, and now it’s gone plumb viral. Which means, lots of hits to our site today. I thought this comment was…

Tuesday Two Hundred: Gated Golf Course Home Has Designer Touches, Even a Playhouse – $259,000 – Only One “Problem”…

By Candy Evans / March 20, 2012 /

I think I’m going to challenge Barbara Corcoran to top this one. Let me tell you, there is no way. I emailed this home to my daughter and she was hooked! This is a new home at 9077 Cotton Village Drive, just built in 2006, with three bedrooms, two and a half baths, upstairs gameroom, great granite and stainless kitchen, open floor plan and high ceilings! Not only is it fresh, saucy and beautiful, it’s in a gated community on a golf course and is a golf lovers dream!

Aggressive Sales: Preston Hollow Resident Stabbed by Door-To-Door Magazine Solicitor

By Candy Evans / March 20, 2012 /

  Those door-to-door magazine solicitors are getting way more aggressive — be careful! A magazine solicitor stabbed a 21-year old Preston Hollow resident and WFAA-TV has all the deets: the 21 year old answered the door, and the male solicitor babbled about needing money for an organization: “He came up and was very inarticulate, and said some…

Would You Trade Your Suburban Home to Live Right Smack in Dallas — Like, in Oak Cliff?

By Candy Evans / March 19, 2012 /

I need to get in touch with assistant city manager Joey Zapata and check out his new digs in Oak Cliff. Zapata moved out of a cush suburban home and into the city, buying a 1949 vintage home in El Tivoli Place in North Oak Cliff. I read his guest column last week in the City of…