Real Estate

Dallas Real Estate Conundrum: Key Market Indicators Indicate Our Housing Market May Be Heating Up

By Candy Evans / April 3, 2012 /

Recent convo with an agent who is seeing a problem in the market with new listings right now. Because the first quarter of 2012 was brisk, he thinks maybe prices are goosing up. Quarter One was brisk because buyers and sellers had become more reasonable, not because prices were up. When that excitement is “improperly communicated”, sellers start “overpricing” their homes, because of the perception that the market is busy, he says.

Tuesday Two Hundred: Lanewood Circle in Lochwood is for The Woodsy Lakewood Lover in You

By Candy Evans / April 3, 2012 /

Love the outdoors? Dream of sitting on a balconey gazing right into Mother Nature, watching the birds flutter? This house at 11311 Lanewood Circle is for you. Lochwood is hands-down one of the most affordable little micro-communities in Lakewood, and here again is a great not-so- little house (1790 square feet) for less than $250,000 (this…

Who Bought Champ d’Or on Turbeville Road in Hickory Creek, Texas? Let’s Speculate

By Candy Evans / April 2, 2012 /

Naturally, I won’t sleep until I find out who got the winning bid on Champ d’Or this weekend and how much they paid — confidentiality clauses are the bain of my existence. I’m getting a few clues. We know it was a Dallas family — Preston Hollow, I’ve heard — with international connections. Many readers have…

Champ d’Or Snapped Up by a Family, Sellers Very Pleased With Sale

By Candy Evans / April 1, 2012 /

“Sellers very pleased with sale” — boy if that isn’t the understatement of the century! Details of Friday’s sale of Champ d’Or by auction up in Denton are eeking out. I got word from Laura Brady with Concierge Auctions that the buyers are definitely a family who apparently plans to live in the 40,000 square…

Champ d’Or Mansion in Denton County, Texas Auctioned Off, SOLD!

By Candy Evans / April 1, 2012 /

I have been on pins and needles waiting out this auction, bugging Robbie Briggs and Laura Brady at Concierge Actions all day yesterday. At about eight p.m. Friday night Robbie Briggs emailed me that “It was a fascinating process, and it appears to be successful.” Saturday morning I heard from Laura Brady who said — “we…