Emerging Real Estate Markets

Growth In Most Major Cities Outpaces Suburbs. Except in Dallas, Where the Urbanists Are Losing

By Candy Evans / July 3, 2012 /

I was in downtown Dallas, cursing the other day. Traffic? No, one way streets. STUPID one way streets. Here we are trying to conserve fossil fuels and make Dallas a “walkable” city with bike lanes, the newest urban fad du jour. (Truth is, I’m sick of hearing about bike lanes. While I might ride on…

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More Realtors Should Adopt This Tag Line: Get a Bigger House, Not a Divorce

By Candy Evans / July 2, 2012 /

This area code is out of Toronto. Now that Obamacare has cleared the Supreme Court, perhaps we can adapt Canadian real estate tag lines as well?

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Dallas Real Estate: Does (Ivy) School Spirit Help Sell Your House?

By Candy Evans / June 30, 2012 /

If you are squinting, that’s a Vanderbilt flag flying proudly outside this house. Will that help it sell and fetch a pretty price? Would a Harvard Princeton Brown Cornell Penn Columbia Dartmouth flag fetch more?

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On the Street Where You Live: Hopefully, Drexel — How Important is A Street Name?

By Candy Evans / June 29, 2012 /

I have always wanted to live on Drexel Drive. Something about that name sounds so classy, elegant. That may be why I am in love with this nicely-priced home — for the Park Cities -about a block south of Mockingbird on what I call the “affordable” Drexel: $1.725. About a block south of Mockingbird, walk…

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We’re So Vain: Dallas is Probably Even Mad Plano is MORE Vain

By Candy Evans / June 27, 2012 /

Plano is so boring, people seldom get killed up there. Now, it turns out, Plano is boring and PRETTY. Yes, according to Men’s Health Mag, Plano is the number two (#2) top city for vanity — that is cosmetic procedures, Botox users, hair dye jobs, people who will spend anything to look younger, at-home hair…

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