Emerging Real Estate Markets

Making Gen Y Buy: To Get Millennials To Sign, You Have To Woo Them Online

By Joanna England / August 2, 2012 /

“Listing online leaves lasting impressions,” recited Bryan Crawford. He’s a young but knowledgeable agent with Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s. He and his wife, Amanda, know how to get the attention of Dallas’ newest generation of homebuyers.

Generation Y, which stretches from the late ’70s through the ’80s, are often serial renters who are more likely to look online for their first home than anywhere else. So, how do you make homeownership more attractive than renting?

Too Hot in Dallas Today? Got a Great Deal on a Second Home Where it’s 63 Degrees Right Now…

By Candy Evans / August 1, 2012 /

San Francisco — about $200,000 fractional purchase buys you this view for 35 days a year… that’s half of July and August in Texas! As usual, we have the second and vacation home market deets all over on SecondShelters.com…

I Left My Heart in San Francisco but Not My Checkbook: The Fairmont Heritage Place at Ghirardelli Square is Quite an Affordable Second Home!

By Candy Evans / August 1, 2012 /

  The Fairmont Heritage Place, Ghirardelli Square offers sweeping views of San Francisco Bay. The waterfront project is in a historic part of the California city on the sea that has always captured my heart. I’m here checking out this amazing property that is available as a fractional ownership for a smidgen over $200,000 for…

Clay Stapp Strikes Again as the Stapp Empire Continues to Grow & Grow

By Candy Evans / August 1, 2012 /

Howard Roth says adios Ebby, hello Clay Stapp & Company today! I’m beginning to feel like a writer on the Star Wars set: we get Trey McCann over there to manage things, then Teresa Barthlow, now Howard Roth? And I am told to stay very, very tuned to my iphone. Howard brings some big guns over to CS&CO: $7 to…

The Keeping Room, or Keeping Area: What is It and Why Does Tom Leppert Have One In His House?

By Candy Evans / July 31, 2012 /

I am not seeing as many of these as I used to, but a Keeping Room is pretty standard in any home of 8,000 square feet or larger. The “keeping room” originated in colonial times, before homes were ginormous, or rather, when only a select few had ginormous homes, usually called castles. It was a multi-use room attached to the kitchen or open to it, complete with a fireplace for warmth. Remember, kitchens used to be the place where people cooked, unlike my house. So creating an extra little sitting area is really an old-time concept that adds depth, warmth and activity to modern kitchens.