Real Estate Market News

What's The Cure For Sloppy Listings? Poor Spelling, All Caps, And Bad Grammar Top List of Faux Pas

By Joanna England / September 11, 2013 /

An anonymous reader sent us this message this week, which started a discussion between me and Candy: Dear Candy, I have a real pet peeve with some home listings I’ve seen recently.  If a client is paying a realtor to list their home, the LEAST the realtor can do is a professional listing.  When I…

Realtors Are Getting App Happy With New Tools For Laptop and Mobile

By Karen Eubank / September 10, 2013 /

Xplode Dallas was just last Friday, and the epic Texas Realtors Conference continues until tomorrow, so let’s take a look at some of the top apps for agents featured in both Xplode and Inman News’ Agent Reboot At Agent Reboot, agents got the dish on these great apps for all users, not just mobile. We’ll…

On The Final Day of the Texas Realtor Conference, Realtors Get Tools to Update Websites, Networks, and Image

By Joanna England / September 10, 2013 /

I don’t know about you, but I think this year’s Texas Association of Realtors Conference was a great success. Kicking off Friday with Xplode Dallas and closing today with some great classes on updating your image and network, there were tons of great opportunities to learn new things and get a refresher on issues you…

Monday Morning Millionaire II: 2009 Construction of '60's Flair Evokes Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann and Sheath Dresses

By Candy Evans / September 10, 2013 /

I am seeing a plethora of sleek, contemporary young beauties hitting the market now at terrific price points below $2 million. Let’s call them “dolls”. First, there was 6720 Greenwich, which is right around the bend from this baby at 12001 Browning, north of Forest, south of Willow. I think they are really giving the…

What Is Wrong With Texas? I Swear, Get 60 Miles Out of Dallas and Brain Cells Evaporate

By Candy Evans / September 9, 2013 /

Have you seen this? Thank God, it’s not an actual woman tied up in the back of a pick-up truck, it’s an ad for a company in Waco, Texas that makes decals for trucks. They thought it would be a good move to make a super realistic decal depicting a woman tied up in the back…