Real Estate Market News

Ex-Husband of Slain Fort Worth Realtor Had a Troubled, Violent Past

By Candy Evans / January 2, 2014 /

NBC5 has more background on John St. Angelo, the north Fort Worth man who police say stabbed his ex-wife to death just two weeks after their divorce became final. (This photo is from St. Angelo’s Facebook page.) Suzanne Parsons did have a restraining order against her ex. St. Angelo kept a SWAT Team busy for…

Happy New Year 2014 From the Real Estate Obsessed at CandysDirt.com!

By Candy Evans / December 31, 2013 /

By the time you read this, it will be 2014! We wish you a wonderful New Year and may 2014 bring you even more real estate success than 2013. And 2013 was a banner year! Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, we are thinking of you with love and appreciation for sticking with us…

$15,000 for Professional Holiday Lights? Those Fancy Park Cities Christmas Lights Run North of $30,000 — Better See Them Tonight!

By Candy Evans / December 31, 2013 /

The 1% like it bright! This article in the Wall Street Journal a couple weeks ago tickled me: it was like a eureka — people spent thousands of dollars on holiday lights, like $15,000 and upwards, to decorate for the holidays. And further eureka: More Americans are forgoing the difficult and sometimes risky endeavor of…

Heavy Hearts This Holiday Season: Dallas Loses Philanthropist Extraordinaire Harold Simmons, Pediatrician Steve Crow

By Candy Evans / December 30, 2013 /

One of the city’s most generous philanthropists, Harold C. Simmons, died Saturday evening at Baylor University medical Center at the age of 82. Simmons was ranked 40th on Forbes’ list of the 400 wealthiest Americans. Born in east Texas to two humble school teachers, he made a fortune by buying a drug store across from SMU…

Virginia McAlester Takes a Dallas Swiss Avenue Home Tour to the New York Times

By Candy Evans / December 29, 2013 /

This is a must-read, perfect story to bring us out of our holiday rest: Dallas founder and past president of Preservation Dallas Virginia Savage McAlester takes the world on a tour of her 96 year old Swiss Avenue home located in the 5700 block of Swiss. She is also the author of  “A Field Guide to American…