Emerging Real Estate Markets

Dallas Real Estate News You Can Use: Realtor/Broker Brad Holden Has a Secret Sauce for Those 600 FICA Scores

By Candy Evans / May 19, 2011 /

Note: Our soon-to-be launched local Real Estate blog, CandysDirt.com, will feature regular profiles of top agents and brokers across North Dallas as well as contributions for real on-the-ground (dirt!) perspectives. But we just couldn’t wait to let the cat out of the bag: Brad Holden is a Dallas-area broker/realtor who has been active in Texas…

Happy Mother’s Day & Dallas Real Estate About to Get Even Better: Central Market Taking Over Old Borders Space At Preston Royal

By Candy Evans / May 8, 2011 /

For those of us who haunt these four corners almost daily, I am thrilled to learn that Central Market will be filling in the old vacated Borders location on the southeast corner of Preston Royal. Course the commercial real estate world was saying that was going to be Trader Joe’s but honestly, I didn’t believe…

Happy Mother’s Day & Dallas Real Estate About to Get Even Better: Central Market Taking Over Old Borders Space At Preston Royal

By Candy Evans / May 8, 2011 /

For those of us who haunt these four corners almost daily, I am thrilled to learn that Central Market will be filling in the old vacated Borders location on the southeast corner of Preston Royal. Course the commercial real estate world was saying that was going to be Trader Joe’s but honestly, I didn’t believe…

Dallas Real Estate Financing: What Are We Going To Do About Mortgages for the Self-Employed?

By Candy Evans / April 28, 2011 /

Update to the mortgage story. As I said earlier, mortgage broker Ron Schulz told me over the weekend that the biggest hurdle in mortgage financing now is finding mortgage loans for the self-employed. Those deals are near impossible because most self-employed work off K-1 income to control/limit taxes so when they go to get a…

Good Dallas Real Estate News: Dallas Fort Worth Residential Foreclosure Postings Drop to 40 Month Low!

By Candy Evans / April 15, 2011 /

For the first time in more than THREE YEARS, foreclosures are diminishing in Dallas Fort Worth. George Roddy Sr. of Foreclosure Listing Service, Inc. reports some good news preceding the spring market: Dallas Fort Worth residential foreclosure postings have dropped to a 40-month low. Roddy says that for the upcoming auctions on May 3, only…