Real Estate Market News

Brandon Stewart Joins David Griffin & Company: Perfectly Modern Match

By Candy Evans / September 18, 2012 /

Brandon Stewart has left Ebby Halliday to park his license with David Griffin and Company Realtors. Brandon is one of the city’s more interesting agents: his background is in architecture– he’s an architect, in fact. Though he sells homes now and does not practice architecture, if you can use that phrase, he has one of the best…

List a Home at Sunrise, Sell it by Sunset: The New Dallas Real Estate Story

By Candy Evans / September 18, 2012 /

As I told you, Dallas homes are selling like hotcakes. What is it about this market, and when did this start? Had lunch with Carol Blair up in Addison Circle today — stay tuned for the neat stuff she and her office are doing — and we were scratching our heads: just when did this…

Newest Status Symbol: “Our House Sold Before Going on the Market”. Hip Pocket Sales and Why Brokers Love Them

By Candy Evans / September 17, 2012 /

I call it the Hip Pocket Revolution, and it’s been going on since the market picked up this January. Steve Brown jumped in on something that is growing like hotcakes in Dallas real estate: the Hip Pocket sale. These are off-market deals, says Steve, but I prefer to call them deals where no listing agreement has…

State of the State of the DFW Real Estate Market

By Candy Evans / September 14, 2012 /

We have had a steady stream of positive real estate news reports from everywhere the last couple weeks. And despite our fling with West Nile, Dallas is like the shinest Real Estate ornament in the box! The latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show Dallas as the only Texas city on the index showing a 3.68…

Where oh Where Do Those Hamptons Buyers Come From? The Big Apple

By Candy Evans / September 14, 2012 /

This is pretty cool to those of us obsessed with second or vacation homes. Which is, like all of us. Everyone knows that the Hamptons is the vacation home playground of Manhattan — or it is? Actually, yes. A cool blog called PropertyShark did all this research to find that 35 percent of Hamptons vacation…