Investment Properties

HGTV ‘Flip or Flop’ Hosts Slap Their Faces on Get-Rich-Quick Flipping Seminar

By Jon Anderson / January 25, 2016 /

The circus almost never comes to town anymore, but mark your calendars for February. I received an invitation in the mail to attend Tarek and Christina El Moussa’s FREE “Flipping Dallas” real estate class. I say “free” because they make sure to tell us how much we’re saving: $147 for each ticket and another $510.97…

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Real Estate Investing: Why Dallas Is a Great Place to Start

By Joanna England / October 28, 2015 /

For budding real estate investors, there are few markets as ripe for the picking as Dallas/Fort Worth. With hundreds of neighborhoods and communities to choose from, an ever-growing population, and lots of demand, you can’t find a much better area than this. Are you looking to venture into the world of real estate investing? Here…

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Real Estate 101 Ask the Teach: Buying Profile of the Average Real Estate Investor May Shock You

By Candy Evans / March 26, 2014 /

Remember Kelly Logsdon Rush? Teacher of the Year and my very first Real Estate teacher? Kelly is back with a somewhat regular little segment here on CandysDirt.com called “Ask The Teach”. I know a thing or two about real estate, but Kelly knows about five trillion things, so much, in fact, that she teaches RE…

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CoreLogic HPI Shows Year-Over-Year Home Price Growth For Houston, Dallas MSAs

By Joanna England / February 5, 2014 /

According to the most recent report from CoreLogic, the Dallas-Plano-Irving MSA ranked seventh in year-over-year home price growth among the 100 statistical areas the firm measures in its Housing Price Index with a 9.4 percent increase in prices (excluding distressed sales) through the year ending in December 2013.

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Sales Volume and Prices Both Climb as Texas Market Finishes 2013 Strong, Economists Say

By Joanna England / February 3, 2014 /

We knew 2013 was a banner year for Dallas Realtors as our market pulled itself up by its bootstraps and posted post-recession growth that amazed even the most seasoned brokers. But according to research from the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, the market posted year-over-year numbers that showed Texas flexing its economic muscles…

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