Emerging Real Estate Markets

On Being a Single Parent in Dallas: Which Dallas Neighborhoods (If Any) Make It Better?

By Candy Evans / January 7, 2013 /

I’ve been thinking about the best neighborhoods in Dallas for single parents to live after reading Pamela Gwyn Kripke’s essay in Slate on single parenting. Pamela is raising two girls solo and lives the Park Cities, in what she calls a small, $600k-ish stone home, the kind I’m sure builders seek out to tear down.…

Dallas Developer Jack Matthews Said to be Making a Bid to Buy Museum Tower

By Candy Evans / January 5, 2013 /

Just read this over on the Dallas Morning News Scoop Blog: Dallas Developer Jack Matthews has, for weeks, been negotiating a potential deal to buy Museum Tower with the owners, the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, according to DMN sources. If true, this sparks hope that a change of management for the tower could help…

Another Case-Shiller Report Calls for a Toast: Home Prices Up 4.3% Nationally, 4.6% in Big D

By Candy Evans / December 28, 2012 /

They may be talking Fiscal Cliff in D.C., but you can only say good things about our housing market unless, that is, you live in Chicago. Or New York. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Index shows home prices continued to rise in October, with prices up 4.3% annually within the 20-city composite index that S&P scrutinizes…

One More Good Thing to Say About Dallas Before the Year Ends: We Are Fertile, We Have Kids

By Candy Evans / December 27, 2012 /

We like kids, right? Sure we do. Well, we have a lot of them in Dallas/Fort Worth. It’s a good sign when you have a lot of families with little ones visiting Santa and outgrowing their tennies because that means mom and dad will have to buy more. And families need homes to raise the kids, preferably…

Monday Morning Millionaire: I’d Stay Home Alone or With Company for Christmas in This Perry Heights Georgian!

By Candy Evans / December 24, 2012 /

I dreamed I got a Georgian for Christmas! You know how some homes just ooze good vibes and what I call “great house juju”? This home is a blonde version of the red Georgian “Home Away” home up in Winnetka, Ill. Well of course it is — this is Dallas after all! In fact, 4434…