Economy
Just to show you how crucial housing and home building remains to the nation’s economic recovery, Fed Chairman Ben Bernake rubbed shoulders (and used hand gestures) with Bob the Builders last week in Orlando. His talk was the hottest ticket in town at the 2012 National Association of Home Builders International Builders Show in Orlando. Dallas photographer…
I have been test-driving the Mercedes ML and just love it, so I am in an M Streets frame of mind. How could I resist this darling Greenland Hills tudor on one of THEE very best blocks that has a shower big enough for a block party? Built in 1929 but very much updated to the…
Oh my, on the housing real estate front, his SOTU speech was even more dissappointing than I had anticipated. While President Obama spoke, I was at the rain-drenched McFarlin Auditorium at SMU hearing out Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and his latest book I am dying to devour, Boomerang. I thought it ironic…
Last week Dallas Morning News real estate editor Steve Brown shook the Dallas condo market world when he wrote that “Lenders may take Palomar condo tower”. He said that since last year, “Behringer Harvard has been trying to renegotiate the debt on the Residences at Palomar condo building.” The news was that one of Behringer Harvard’s funds missed a…
This is one tenet the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Dallas folks don’t capiche: the rich always get richer. And when you have a big, beautiful home, you can always find ways to make it be the giant piggie bank we always hope it will be. A major network reality show is seeking a furnished…
