Dallas Real Estate News

Dallas Parks Foundation’s CONFAB is Tomorrow! Don’t Miss it!

By Joanna England / June 4, 2014 /

The second volume of the Dallas Parks Foundation‘s revolutionary CONFAB 2014 is tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the Dallas City Performance Hall. This event, which bills itself as a conversation about public space, is actually so much more, and CandysDirt.com is proud to be one of the sponsors. If you care about what kind of…

Dallas Home Prices Are up 10.4 percent YOY, But Are We Getting Bubbly Again?

By Joanna England / June 4, 2014 /

Lots of conflicting reports are circulating lately, some of them say our region’s real estate market, along with the U.S. at large, is poised for unprecedented growth in prices. Others claim that relying on the real estate market to support our nation’s financial comeback is a huge mistake. CoreLogic’s most recent HPI shows a 10.4…

Suspicious Tires: Stranded Carrollton Man May Have Plundered Unlocked Highland Park Cars

By Zachary Dickens / June 4, 2014 /

At 2:45 a.m. on May 31, a Highland Park police officer noticed that a white Ford truck was parked in the 4200 block of Edmondson Avenue with its emergency lights flashing. The officer approached the truck and found a 24-year-old Carrollton man standing next to it on the curb. The man said he’d run over…

Trammell Crow Presents Sam’s Club Case to Oak Lawn Council

By Candy Evans / June 4, 2014 /

I will tell you this: Joel Behrens of Trammell Crow seems like a nice, earnest young man of 34 who was sweating up a storm last night as he was the anointed. Anointed, that is, to present Trammell Crow’s case for a super-size Sam’s Wholesale Club to the venerable Oak Lawn Committee, the original protectors of…

Why Can’t We Have This Kind of a WalMart at Cityplace? Thinking OUTSIDE the Big Box…

By Candy Evans / May 28, 2014 /

You guys, LOOK at this Walmart store going up in Totten Square, Washington, D.C. I had heard or read that Walmart was doing smaller-scale stores for urban infill sites, even connected with public transit. Look at these two D.C. stores that opened late last year. A third is under construction in Fort Totten. If this…