Real Estate Market News

Post Election Four More Years House P: Frisco, Four Bedrooms, Fabulous, $419,700

By Candy Evans / November 7, 2012 /

We get four more years of President Obama, so in celebration, I pulled this four-bedroom, 4848 square foot home in Hunters Creek in Frisco for your post-election viewing comfort. Did you get that connection there, 4848 square feet? First of all, this home is one of the most attractive Tudor mini mansions I have seen…

Monday Morning Millionaire From Hawaii, With Love: I Found Amazing House P. in Hawaii

By Candy Evans / November 6, 2012 /

We just returned from a glorious ten days in Hawaii, island hopping from The Big Island to Honolulu and, finally, Maui. We survived a tsunami, my first! I’m still on Hawaiian time and mixing Mai Tais. As you know, Hawaii is second home nirvana for the wealthiest of the wealthy. Last week, I got to…

Dallas Homeowner Researches His Home’s Design Past, and Finds Architect Neal Lacey

By Candy Evans / November 5, 2012 /

A CandysDirt.com Guest Post by the wonderful Pete Peabody When my family purchased a North Dallas home built in 1967, we had little time for research. Everything happened in about three weeks. Our day-to-day life with 2 children under age 3 now included packing up a three-story Uptown area townhouse, schlepping everything up the Tollway…

Expert Advice: Ready For Fewer Closing Documents? Marcus McCue Says Changes might make it a reality

By Joanna England / October 30, 2012 /

  Changes are coming to some of the key documents that homebuyers sign when they close on a mortgage loan. Government agencies are behind these changes, so it should come as no surprise that they’re late. The changes to the Good Faith Estimate, Truth-in- Lending Disclosure and HUD-1 Settlement Statement — required by the Dodd…

I Dreamed My Next Home Was Within Walking Distance of Highland Park Village. Well, the Best Buy in Highland Park Just Got Better…

By Candy Evans / October 26, 2012 /

Many of you are too young to remember the Maidenform commercials: “I Dreamed I Did… the Dishes in My Maidenform Bra”. (Or did something.) It was a 1950’s/1960’s lingerie ad campaign that I saw on TV when I was in utero- ha! The Maidenform Bra print and tv ads featured a woman wearing her lingerie, her bra, in public doing…