Real Estate Market News

How To Tell If You Should Make a Low Ball Offer on a Home: Don’t Check the Fridge

By Candy Evans / August 28, 2012 /

Well, you could, but the wine cellar is a way more telling spot. First of all, an empty wine cellar usually means no one lives in the house except for a Castle Keeper. Ain’t no way a Castle Keeper is going to be drinking red wine. Secondly, when you move, you take the good wine…

Addicted to Real Estate and Great Byron Nelson Parties: LaMarcus Aldridge Must Be Collecting Dallas Real Estate, and We Love It!

By Candy Evans / August 28, 2012 /

The beauty of blogging is the open forum it provides to the community. I posted last evening about LaMarcus Aldridge’s two Dallas homes out in Southlake — one is on the market and in fact has a contingency on it and also one of the prettiest pools I’ve seen. A trusty “commenter” — love it…

Monday Morning Millionaire, Southlake Edition: ONE of LaMarcus Aldridge’s Homes Listed, Already Contingent

By Candy Evans / August 27, 2012 /

LaMarcus Aldridge, who plays for the Portland Trail Blazers, really likes him some real estate. The pro baller has not one but TWO homes in Southlake — gosh what it is about Southlake and Westlake and Colleyville that just make these places MAGNETS for pro players and coaches? The one on the market for $1,749,000…

John Wiley Price’s Defense Attorney Sued by Feds for $5.3 Million in Unpaid Taxes — Guess Where He Lives? Strait Lane.

By Candy Evans / August 27, 2012 /

But don’t get too excited. Defense attorney John Carney lives on Strait Lane, indeedy, or at least one of his trusts owns a home at 11484 Strait Lane. But I don’t think he’ll exactly be slip sliding away down at Richard Malouf’s Water Pik Park. To be perfectly honest here, Carney’s place is on the…

Ambien Found in Body of Highland Park Man Who Attacked his Family, Then Stabbed Himself to Death

By Candy Evans / August 26, 2012 /

The autopsy of John Rodman Steele, the Highland Park businessman and community leader who attacked his family then stabbed himself to death last July 11, showed traces of a sleeping aid called Ambien — or the ingredient zolpidem, that is found in many sleep aids, including Ambien, in his body. I had heard this from…