Emerging Real Estate Markets

Oh Steve, Start Managing Your Headlines, Please. We Are Talking .3 % For Cripes Sake!

By Candy Evans / August 11, 2011 /

Like I’m serious. This is ridiculous. The real estate headline in yesterday’s Dallas Morning News says: “Dallas-area home prices projected to inch lower in coming months” Inch? Creep? Lean? “Dallas-area home prices were down almost 5 percent from a year ago in the latest Case-Shiller Index data for May.” Yes, Case-Shiller. Old data and doesn’t…

Nostalgic Look Back at 9338 Meadowbrook: Anyone Remember the Chateau that Burned on Strait Lane? Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / August 9, 2011 /

This is a real blast from the past: Dave Perry-Miller sold 9338 Meadowbrook recently, listed at $6.795, with sales price undisclosed, though I hear it was fairly close to asking. Something about this house made me have deja vue. I dusted off some old notes to get us the very interesting history of this home. It was 1997,…

Naughty Tuesday: Help Me Critique This Home For Cali Friends

By Candy Evans / August 8, 2011 /

This could really get me in water that is hotter than my swimming pool right about now, but a friend in California is selling their home and these are the photos the agent shot. Naturally, I have some strong opinions, which I am going to withold. It’s a lovely contemporary northern Cali home circa 1983…

Home Staging: Do Designer Pets Help Sell Homes, First or Second? Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / August 7, 2011 /

I knew it was only a matter of time before this happened. After all, Realtors have been stealing tips from ad pros for years to make homes look glorious in photographs to entice buyers. What have I been telling you for years — it’s all about the photos, right? Now we hear that “placement pets“, as…

Do Designer Dogs Sell Properties? Staging a Home to Sell With Live Pets – Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / August 5, 2011 /

I knew it was only a matter of time before this happened. After all, Realtors have been stealing tips from ad pros for years to make homes look glorious in photographs to entice buyers. What have I been telling you for years — it’s all about the photos, right? Now we hear that “placement pets“, as…