Economy

Local Market Monitor Predicts Growth For 2014, But Flat For 2015 And Beyond

By Joanna England / January 3, 2014 /

While Trulia consider’s Dallas to be overvalued, Local Market Monitor‘s report says that the Dallas-Irving-Plano market is actually under-priced in the neighborhood of 12 percent. That’s interesting news from these economic analysts. Local Market Monitor is predicting that home prices will grow 9 percent over the next 12 months, but will top out at 10…

New Years Resolutions to Help You Sell a Home in Dallas in… 2014

By Candy Evans / January 1, 2014 /

Number one, as Joanna has learned from her mother, better make sure your house is clean! (Mother is always right!) And if you plan to sell your home in 2014, get ready to have a house that is cleaner than you could have ever imagined. You know Dallas is a hot market, and while you…

Happy New Year 2014 From the Real Estate Obsessed at CandysDirt.com!

By Candy Evans / December 31, 2013 /

By the time you read this, it will be 2014! We wish you a wonderful New Year and may 2014 bring you even more real estate success than 2013. And 2013 was a banner year! Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, we are thinking of you with love and appreciation for sticking with us…

$15,000 for Professional Holiday Lights? Those Fancy Park Cities Christmas Lights Run North of $30,000 — Better See Them Tonight!

By Candy Evans / December 31, 2013 /

The 1% like it bright! This article in the Wall Street Journal a couple weeks ago tickled me: it was like a eureka — people spent thousands of dollars on holiday lights, like $15,000 and upwards, to decorate for the holidays. And further eureka: More Americans are forgoing the difficult and sometimes risky endeavor of…

Pat Snuffer Settles Restaurant Lawsuit, Lists Stunning Preston Hollow Home in the Honeypot With Fab Kitchen

By Candy Evans / December 24, 2013 /

I’m sure Pat Snuffer is going to have a very merry holiday: he and the new owners of the Snuffer’s Restaurant & Bar entity — sold through a bankruptcy last March — shook hands and settled their differences over the weekend to end a lawsuit. The restaurateur and Firebrand Restaurant Corp. were gearing up to wrestle…