Real Estate

Under New Law, HOAs Can't Keep Residents From Installing Xeriscaping

By Joanna England / July 25, 2013 /

Good news for homeowners fed up with maintaining lawns and the high water bills that come with it. If you live in an HOA and couldn’t install a water-friendly landscape because of restrictive covenants, now you can. According to a new law passed by the Texas Legislature, HOAs can no longer forbid homeowners from installing…

Need Your Input: How Will Detroit's Bankruptcy Affect its Housing Market?

By Candy Evans / July 25, 2013 /

Jeeze Louise. $18.5 billion in debt. Will city workers, firemen and policemen, get their pensions? Does the garbage get picked up?  This is a great piece by Morgan Brennan over at FORBES on how other cities that have endured bankruptcy are seeing home prices start to stabilize and inch up. Of course, that is happening…

Troy Has Moved: Why Were There Moving Vans in Front of Troy Aikman's House Yesterday? Where is he Going?

By Candy Evans / July 25, 2013 /

Oh these sleepy summer months when everyone is out of town at their summer home, like in Santa Barbara. What a perfect time for someone to slip out of their “no-longer on the market home” at 4425 Highland Drive, and slip into another home in Highland Park? I am told there were no less than…

Realtor.com Just Got a Big Boost Today From the NAR in the Windy City

By Candy Evans / July 25, 2013 /

This is something that you may not think is a big deal, unless you are voraciously house hunting and use Realtor.com Trulia and Zillow a lot. The board of directors of the National Association of Realtors voted in Chicago today to give Move Inc., the company that operates Realtor.com, more freedom and flexibility to compete with…

Kathy Nealy's Terrace Condo to be Sold at Next Foreclosure Auction, She Being "Victim of an Investigation"

By Candy Evans / July 24, 2013 /

Let me be clear from the very start: this is unit 616 at The Terrace at Victory Park.  Kathy Nealy’s unit was 216 on the second floor, but exact same square footage  (1196) and save for being higher and maybe a different color marble in the kitchen or master, pretty similar. Robert Wilonsky at the…