Real Estate

Big Is Back: Living Large in Dallas Real Estate Never Really Went Out of Style

By Candy Evans / February 14, 2012 /

I laugh whenever I read that American homes are getting smaller. Maybe SOME homes. But custom homes for the uber wealthy here and elsewhere are bigger than ever. True, there is my generation of Baby Boomers who are contemplating downsizing. Had lunch with Mickey Munir last week of Sharif-Munir Custom Homes, who told me about…

Bernake Talks to Home Builders: Weak Housing Impeding Recovery. Translation to DC: It’s Still About the Lending, Stupid

By Candy Evans / February 12, 2012 /

Just to show you how crucial housing and home building remains to the nation’s economic recovery, Fed Chairman Ben Bernake rubbed shoulders (and used hand gestures) with Bob the Builders last week in Orlando. His talk was the hottest ticket in town at the 2012 National Association of Home Builders International Builders Show in Orlando. Dallas photographer…

Did the Flower Mound House Squatter Pay The Property Taxes on 2205 Waterford Drive?

By Candy Evans / February 5, 2012 /

Update: I’m stalking the Squatter. Saturday night I drove up to Flower Mound to see if there were any lights in the house at 2205 Waterford (really nice ‘hood, Robinson’s house is one home in from a major street) and there were none on. Snooped in the mailbox — no mail. Quiet as a church…

Fame Put on Foundation Here: Dallas’s Mary Kay Ash Home Hits the Real Estate Market Once Again, This Time a Steal at $3.3

By Candy Evans / February 2, 2012 /

For more details and all the local Dallas Real estate News, click on over to www.CandysDirt.com Karen Luter of Allie Beth Allman tells me she has been working her fingers to the bone for weeks trying to get this home ready for sale. Will be in MLS next week. Not much besides the price has…

Thursday Three Hundred, Kiss Me Now: (Wet) Man Cave, Porte Cochere, Granite and a Short Sale

By Candy Evans / February 2, 2012 /

This one sure took some digging, but I may have found the best bargain west of the Mississippi,  south of LBJ for darn sure. 10824 Saint Michaels Drive is a short sale in Preston Hollow. OK, east Preston Hollow and more accurately the Saint Michael (Royal Park Estates) area near JanMar, but no less a GREAT…