Real Estate Market News

Happy Fourth of July — America’s Birthday House Can Be Yours TODAY

By Candy Evans / July 4, 2012 /

We live the American Dream of real estate here in Texas more than anywhere. Maybe it’s because we learned our lesson back in the 1980’s — R.I.P. Danny Faulkner. Not only did we learn, we RETAINED. When I was in Denver at the National Association of Real Estate Editors Conference last month, Mark Fleming, the…

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Sean Payton: Hell Hath No Wrath Like a Man Who Comes Between a Woman and Her Beach House

By Candy Evans / July 4, 2012 /

Sean and Beth Payton have this yummy beach house on the Gulf coast of Florida in between Panama City Beach and Grayton Beach, Florida. Commenters on NOLA have said he’s fighting to keep it. If I were his wife, I’d fight like hell for it. Hell hath no wrath like a man who comes between…

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If Jason Terry Signs on With the Celtics, Does That Mean He’ll Have at Least Two Homes on the Market?

By Candy Evans / July 3, 2012 /

Would these sports guys please just calm down, it’s a mid-week holiday for God’s sake. Now comes word that Jason Terry is leaving the Mavericks and heading to the Celtics in Boston, or B-town. I’ll be up there in a couple weeks and check on The Jet’s house-hunting — already have some ideas, in fact. Meantime,…

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Surprise, Surprise: Texas is One of the Nation’s Largest Producers of Renewable Energy – So Says Local Green Queen

By Candy Evans / July 3, 2012 /

I love this post on Huffington Post by Anna Clark, who also writes for Joel Kotkin, and who I totally need to re-connect with. Anna is the Green Queen of not just Dallas, but Texas. In her op-ed piece for The Huffington Post, she writes that while the Dallas series may portray as as the…

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New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton & Wife May Have (Cryptically) Filed for Divorce: Wife & Kids to Remain in Westlake?

By Candy Evans / July 3, 2012 /

This just in from Ryan Jones over at the Times-Picayune: New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton has apparently cryptically filed for divorce from his wife, Beth. Tricky, but smart: a Tarrant County divorce petition was filed on June 14, the filings using initials so as to avoid making the Paytons’ identities public. Here’s what Ryan says:…

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