Dallas Real Estate News

Is Jenna Bush Hager Coming Home to Dallas?

By Candy Evans / December 10, 2010 /

Here’s a cool place if you have a hankering for a second home in the Baltimore MD area — the market there is not too shabby, but you might have to worry about crime. Jenna Bush Hager and her husband, Henry, have their super historical townhouse on the market for $474,900 for the three-bedroom, 2000…

Robbie Briggs: Real Estate is Global, Baby, Global

By Candy Evans / December 9, 2010 /

I caught up with charged-up Briggs Freeman CEO Robbie Briggs for the low down on his new deal with Sothebys. After all, that was all any of us talked about last night at Duxiana. Did Robbie sell out? Is he retiring? What’s the story– inquiring real estate minds want to know all. Well, here’s the…

Dallas Real Estate News: Should We Care That Briggs Freeman is Now Sotheby’s Franchisee?

By Candy Evans / December 7, 2010 /

You may have heard the news from Steve Brown that the toney, boutique-y firm of Briggs Freeman has affiliated as a franchisee with Sotheby’s International Realty. That this happened, that Robbie gave up his Christie’s Great Estates affiliation to make this change, tells you how tough this market really is. Smart move for Briggs Freeman.…

Ranching News: Wives, Girlfriends, and Daughters of Ranchers — Hollywood Calling On Line One

By Candy Evans / December 3, 2010 /

A well-known LA production house will be in town very soon seeking Dallas-area women who “ranch” for a pilot on “beautiful, glamorous¬† Dallas women who have a ranch connection,” says the darling L.A.-living Janelle Randazza, who is casting for the show. She won’t tell me who the producer is, but¬† I hear they are the…

Lawmakers Eye That Home Mortgage Deduction To Balance Budget

By Candy Evans / December 1, 2010 /

The Presidential, bi-partisian committee scrutinizing ways to cut our huge budget deficit brought on by the housing market collapse, Wall Street firms going under, and the biggest government bail out in the history of the world, may end the U.S. home mortgage¬† deduction. It could certainly end the mortgage interest deduction of second home properties.…