Real Estate Trends

Real Estate & Sex: About That Sex Convention Coming to Dallas This Weekend…

By Candy Evans / August 3, 2015 /

Big opportunity this weekend to show off your Dallas Real Estate. Dirt, bricks and sticks, I mean. On August 7 Exxxotica Expo will take over the Dallas Convention Center. It’s a conference that is, well, all about sex: kind of like one of my husband’s Ob/Gyn conventions, only more fun, less “clinical”. This is the “Largest Adult…

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Will This App Kill Professional Real Estate Photography?

By Joanna England / July 28, 2015 /

When we first heard of Yurz, it definitely piqued some interest. Sure, some Realtors definitely need help with branding and photography. We’ve seen some awful websites out there, with some listing shots sporting horrible glare off of mirrors and windows and a flash that drowns out any details that buyers wouldn’t want to miss. Of…

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4 of the 20 Hottest Real Estate Markets in the USA Are in Texas

By Candy Evans / June 30, 2015 /

Dallas/Fort Worth, of course, Austin, San Antonio and Midland. Not Houston. That’s because Midland’s market was so very tight on inventory lower oil prices barely made a blip. Houston, not so much.  Realtor.com’s chief economist, Jonathan Smoke, conducted the analysis based on data for the first three weeks of June. The median list price for a…

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Repeat After Me: Texas is the Best Place to Buy a Home Right Now

By Candy Evans / May 8, 2015 /

I feel like I type this sentence so much into our CMS we ought to just make it a permanent keystroke. Yes, we know this, and we keep hearing it. Among the four Texas locations that made the list, Dallas ranks number 6 nationally. San Antonio beat us probably for lower prices and our higher…

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Jed Kolko: Millennials Are NOT as Urban as We Think

By Candy Evans / April 8, 2015 /

Or as urban as we are led to believe. Jed Kolko is the chief economist at Trulia. I’ve heard him speak a few times, even had drinks with him at NAREE (National Assn of Real estate Editors) events. I mentioned this to him last time we talked — that I really wondered if the case…

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