Dallas Real Estate News

George and Laura Bush at Their Second Home: a Life Less Stressful on the Ranch

By Candy Evans / April 2, 2011 /

The New York Times ran this wonderful interview with former First Lady Laura Bush on April 1, I hope the link to the slide show works — never know with the pay walls these days. In the interview, she says she didn’t know she was stressed until they moved back home,¬† Barney and Miss Beazely…

No April Fools for Fisher: Inflationary Pressure Rising?

By Candy Evans / April 1, 2011 /

Dallas Fed president and CEO Richard Fisher told the Dallas Real Estate Council this morning the usual rah rah Texas stuff:¬† Texans are uniquely qualified to turn the economy around and get a grip on the nation‚Äôs $14.2 trillion debt. Lower unemployment here. We built and can continue the greatest job-creating machine in the world,…

Dallas Real Estate Round Up: Game Change for Mortgage Brokers, Maybe

By Candy Evans / April 1, 2011 /

Starting today, you might see more mortgage brokers hitting the bars or unemployment lines. April 1, that’s today, marks the day the rules change on how mortgage brokers earn their pay. Old way: mortgage brokers get discounted loans from big banks and they offer them to consumers. They charge a fee, which comes as a…

From Bytes to Bites: In-N-Out Burger to Take Over Comp USA Space on Tollway

By Candy Evans / April 1, 2011 /

I cannot tell you how many times¬† I have been in the (former) CompUSA store on the east side of the Dallas North Tollway between Belt Line Road and Arapaho Road in (what some call) far North Dallas. Cables, computers, you name it, I’ve been there to buy it. And when that building vacated several…

More Free Tickets to the Park Cities Historic and Preservation Society Home Tour Next Weekend!

By Candy Evans / March 29, 2011 /

All the second homes in Destin, Port Aransas or Pebble Beach could not pull me away from next Saturday’s Park Cities Historic and Preservation Society‘s Spring home tour. That’s April 2, 2011, from 10 am – 4 pm. The owners of six gloriously historic and architecturally significant Park Cities homes will toss open their doors…