Real Estate Market News

HGTV’s My First Place Shooting in Dallas: Your Chance to Snag an Extra $2000?

By Candy Evans / September 24, 2011 /

First time home-buyers, here’s your chance to snag an extra $2000 that might help cover the cost of, oh, new flooring.  HGTV is scouting for first-time home-buyers and their agents and say they need a whole bunch.  “We’ll be looking for around 30 stories in the Dallas area, plenty of opportunities for you and any of your…

Swiss Avenue Now a Popular Vacation Destination? Dallas Real Estate Rental News

By Candy Evans / September 22, 2011 /

I told you vacation homeowers are raking it in. Well, now it seems regular homeowners are not doing too shabby, either. One of my alert readers alerted me to this interesting vacation home posting on HomeAway.com: a red-brick Swiss Avenue mansion. It leases for $2,000 to $3,000 per night, or $18,000 a week. (Wowzers!) Five…

76% of Vacation Home Owners Say Now is the Time to Buy a Second Home — SecondShelters

By Candy Evans / September 22, 2011 /

Vacation homes are now hotter to lease out than hotel rooms! All the deets over on SecondShelters.com, our sister blog (sista sista!).

What Are The Hottest Neighborhoods in Dallas? Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / September 20, 2011 /

Lake Highlands? Shorecrest? Highland Park? Peninsula? Park Cities? Preston Hollow (my vote!)? Lake Highlands? Midway Hollow? Kessler Park? Bishop Arts? Ravinia? The Cedars? Junius Heights Historic District? Far North Dallas? Richardson? Southlake? Colleyville? Arlington? The other day I was waaaay out in Benbrook,wowzers, beautiful community! I want to hear what you like and why you…

Where Were You When Terror Struck on 9/11? It Was Tuesday—MLS Day in Dallas. Did 9/11 Jump-Start the Real Estate Market?

By Candy Evans / September 12, 2011 /

Had lunch with the fine, fine folks at Keller Williams Elite Park Cities the other day: Stevie Chaddick, Linda Carothers, Philip Walker, Jane Idzie and Vicki Foster. Like everyone in America, we talked about what we were doing the moment we learned that the twin towers, the Pentagon and a U.S. civilian aircraft, had been attacked. It was…