Emerging Real Estate Markets

Wall Street Journal’s MANSION Highlights Dallas Ritz Residences, Feeds Dirt-Loving Readers Real Estate News on Steroids

By Candy Evans / October 8, 2012 /

Wow, it was unreal. I picked up my Wall Street Journal Friday morning and tossed away the political news — yeah, Mitt did real well Wednesday night — tearing right into the brand new mega steroidal section designed for everyone who loves House Porn and craves real estate news: MANSION. There I had it kind…

Energy Transfer Partners Closes $5.5 Billion Deal With Sunoco: Hello Dallas, That’s Klyde Warren’s Dad

By Candy Evans / October 7, 2012 /

I recall hearing about this, but it didn’t resonate until I saw it in Bloomberg: Our Energy Transfer Partners, as in Kelcy Warren and his son Klyde, who has a downtown Dallas park named after him, now heads a dang big company that includes more pipeline than Larry Ellison has homes. Energy Transfer Partners has…

It’s My Mansion: $100,000 Homes. Here’s Granite, Gleaming Hardwoods, and a Great Dallas, Texas Yard for $109K

By Candy Evans / October 4, 2012 /

Readers have written with many requests — so many houses to tour — and we really try to honor them all, see them all. I’ve been a bit preoccupied lately with a family wedding — that’s me at our fabulous rehearsal dinner, below, at Eddie Deen’s. And I cannot say enough wonderful things about my son and daughter-in-law’s wedding or her wedding coordinator, Rebecca Hackl, Rebecca Hackl Events, who I call “J-Lo” because she is so darn adorable. But last week the ninth person offered up this suggestion — more of a challenge, really, especially to a new Monster-In-Law:

Real Estate So Hot, The Wall Street Journal Is Expanding Coverage to Their “Mansion”

By Candy Evans / October 4, 2012 /

All we hear is how print is dying, but the Wall Street Journal plows ahead. The smarty pants at the Wall Street Journal announce a significant beefing up of global (and all) real estate coverage beginning this Friday. Oh and guess what: it’s going to be on mobile and the ipad, too. Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of Dow Jones & Company and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, says what I have believed for years: “We all like to think of our home as a mansion, even if it is a humble abode, and we all have the license to aspire, so we have created Mansion to be the home of both aspiration and real estate realization.”

Dallas Housing Market Doing Quite Well, But It’s Still Not Miller Time

By Candy Evans / October 2, 2012 /

Clear Capital, a California-based housing and finance analyst, says we can be downright proud of our market: Dallas-Fort Worth home prices will rise by another 1 percent during the next six months. The good news: more markets are improving than not, should sustain the slow winter and come out with a roar come spring. In…