Dallas Real Estate News

Al Hill III Buys a $9 Million Dollar Home in Atlanta

By Candy Evans / September 30, 2011 /

On CandysDirt,  I told you about Al and Erin Hill, that’s Al Three, who recently moved their family to Atlanta. They bought a $9 million dollar estate in swanky Buckhead (think Highland Park on Strait Lane in Dallas), closed on it in July. Last spring, the couple had some legal problems involving a $200,000 HELOC —…

Friday Four Hundred: Greenway Crest Has My Seal of Approval, Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / September 30, 2011 /

This home at 5317 Emerson is just north of Greenway Parks, east of Inwood, and so adorable I want to stuff it in my pocket and take it home. Built in 1949, super updated from the floors to the energy efficient windows in each room: updated kitchen, updated guest bath. (They wisely kept the original pink tile…

Greg A. Brady’s (As I-2 Tech) Azure Penthouse Reduced to $6,490,000, Still Includes the One-Week Cruise

By Candy Evans / September 30, 2011 /

Oh. My. God. I have been to heaven and back. I’m talking about unit 3001 at the tip top of the Azure, a two-story, 5025 square foot custom (I mean, honey, custom) penthouse right up there next to Deion Sanders that makes his unit next door, which is leased out to a physician, by the…

New Single Fam Homes Selling, Sprouting in Dallas Real Estate, But Here’s the New Sweet Spot

By Candy Evans / September 29, 2011 /

This week the Commerce Department reported that sales and prices of newly constructed single-family homes fell in August despite historically low mortgage rates. Reason: stagnant job market, lots of inventory, and fewer home builders out there churning dirt. We are at about 1970s home building activity, when interest rates were even higher! Last month new home sales slipped 2.3 percent.…

Case Shiller Speaks: DFW Home Prices Up From Spring, But Down From 2010

By Candy Evans / September 28, 2011 /

The good news is that home prices rose for a fourth straight month in most major U.S. cities in July, from June, no shocker because we’ve just emerged from the busiest buying season. And that includes Dallas — a whole point (.3) 3%. The bad news is that when you look at last year, home prices are…