Real Estate

Love Your Mama: Real Estalker Picks Up Hicks Story, Quotes Our Fabulous Candy Evans

By Joanna England / January 25, 2013 /

Love this sassy little write-up on the Hicks estate, which is marketed by Douglas Newby & Associates, from Your Mama at The Real Estalker: Like we usually do when it comes to dissin’ and discussin’ high-priced real estate in Dallas Your Mama gave the deliciously dishy Dallas-based property gossip Candy Evans a ringy-dingy and asked if…

Breaking Dallas Real Estate News: Tom and Cinda Hicks Put the Crespi Estate on Market with Douglas Newby: $135 Million

By Candy Evans / January 24, 2013 /

Fasten your seatbelt, it’s going to be a wild ride in real estate this spring. The ink is not yet dry on our post detailing 5911 Glendora, Howard and Cindy Rachofsky’s family home that just hit the market. Now I’ve discovered that, while it is NOT in MLS, Douglas Newby is indeed marketing the 25 acre estate of Thomas O. and Cinda Hicks on Walnut Hill Lane and Hollow Way Road.

The FSBO Conundrum: Five Things to Consider if You Want to Sell Your Home Yourself

By Candy Evans / January 23, 2013 /

I found this cute house over off Inwood and Lovers, on a little street called (7203) Morton.

Sorry, no links: it’s a for sale by owner.

No Duh: Dallas & Fort Worth Home Prices Firming Up, Heading Up, Thumbs Up, Less Inventory, Pricier, Dirt is Solid Gold Again?

By Candy Evans / January 23, 2013 /

I think we’ve been saying this in so many words for a few weeks: our market is doing better, much better, and now even Steve Brown my “Debbie Downer” NAREE colleague at the Dallas Morning News is paying attention: He’s even saying our homes (all of them?) may soon cost more:

Houston House Porn: Texans Not In Superbowl, Linebacker Brian Cushing Unloading $1.3m Missouri City Mansion

By Candy Evans / January 22, 2013 /

Yeah, yeah yeah: the Houston Texans were bounced from the playoffs by the New England Patriots, saving their fans a trip to NOLA. Then the Patriots were trounced by Baltimore. All I know is, our Texas real estate market trumps both of them.  You sure won’t find a five bedroom waterfront mansion in Boston or…