Emerging Real Estate Markets

Washington’s Policies are Kicking the Housing Market in the Teeth

By Candy Evans / July 29, 2011 /

Live blogging from Inman’s Real Estate Connect in San Francisco: Kenneth Rosen, Chair Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley, said that Washington’s economic policies for housing are basically kicking the US housing market in the teeth. He’s my new hero!

Now Is the Time to Buy a Vacation Home

By Candy Evans / July 29, 2011 /

Here in San Francisco at Inman Real Estate Connect, Doug Duncan, VP and Chief Economist over at Fannie Mae just said he bought a home in Florida… Because Florida is on sale!

For Sale By Owners: Gotta Love Them –Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / July 22, 2011 /

Who ya gonna call???

Life In Plano Is Pretty Great, According to Those Guys Who Make All The Lists

By Candy Evans / July 22, 2011 /

Fun piece in The Observer by Anna Merlan on something I told you about earlier, how great life is in Plano, Texas. This year we hear that Plano is number 12 on the life expectancy list — so if you live in Plano statistically you will live longer than if you live in Dallas. Last…

Is Lakewood The New Uptown? Dallas Real Estate News and (Millennial) Views

By Candy Evans / July 21, 2011 /

  Guest Post by Susan Arledge, CEO Arledge Partners Real Estate Group Last week, an interesting report emerged from Advertising Age Magazine called “Put Your Money on Texas.” It showed that Texas is now home to 3.6 million millennials—a 14 percent increase from 2000 to 2010. The 24- to 35-year-old age group “is critical to the…