Real Estate Market News

Breaking Dallas Real Estate News: Ellen Terry Realtors Folding Into Dave Perry-Miller and Associates, Now Ebby Halliday’s Sole Luxury Real Estate Brand

By Candy Evans / October 23, 2011 /

At 9:00 am Monday morning, October 24, Ellen Terry agents will gather at their Luther Lane/Preston Center offices with a whole lot of company: the 175 agents of Dave Perry-Miller and Associates. Your’s truly will be there, too, live blogging for you. We will learn that the Ellen Terry Realtors, Inc. luxury boutique division of Ebby Halliday, has…

Big D Real Estate News: Is the Dream of Home Ownership Dying?

By Candy Evans / October 14, 2011 /

Last Thursday, the Census Bureau released 2010 figures indicating that American home ownership is as low as it was during the Great Depression. Last year, the U.S. homeownership rate fell to 65.1 percent last year. And analysts are concerned it may never return to the 2005 to 2006 housing boom peak in which nearly 70 percent of Americans owned their own…

Three Cheers for the TIERS: Inside Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / October 12, 2011 /

Fun morning last Thursday with members of the TIER networking group of darling Dallas realtors! They are Laura Saunders with Allie Beth, Karen Wyatt with Keller Williams Elite, Kamella Hollis with Allie Beth, Tiffany Strickland with Legacy Texas Title, Carrie Hill and Amy Timmerman from Nathan Grace, Lindsay Craig from Virginia Cook, Elisabeth Davis and Kay Wood from Briggs Freeman.…

East Dallas Blogger and New CandysDirt Contributor Bruce Felps Hospitalized

By Candy Evans / October 10, 2011 /

UPDATE: Here’s more on Bruce’s condition from the folks at MSNBC.com, where he also blogs. Bruce Felps, a Dallas blogger and multi-media journalist —  he writes the East Dallas Times and contributes to the Morning News and MSNBC/DFW.com, apparently  suffered an aneurysm last week and is in a coma at Presby Dallas. Bruce wrote his first column…

Dallas Real Estate Update: The Palomar Rises and IS SELLING MORE UNITS With The Unique “Try Before You Buy”

By Candy Evans / October 4, 2011 /

OK, I am grabbing all the credit for this one. Stopped by the Palomar Residences tonight where marketing director Adam Hignite tells me has has closed 5 more units since we last spoke in July, and has 6 under contract, this out of 53 units left. And Allie Beth Allman agent plus Palm Springs designer extraordinaire…