Real Estate

Pretty Soon You Will Be Able to Ski in Texas — Well, in Grand Prairie, at Least

By Candy Evans / October 15, 2014 /

When we visited Tokyo a few years ago and our hosts told me about the indoor ski resort there, outskirts of Tokyo, I did not believe it until I saw the dome for Zaos, as I think it was called. Sure enough the Japanese loved to ski indoors. The indoor ski resort was on the way…

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Would a Zillow-Trulia Merger Be Good or Bad for Real Estate?

By Candy Evans / July 25, 2014 /

Would a Trulia-Zilllow merger be good for the Real Estate Business? Yes No Not sure Zillow is the devil, who wants more devil? Zillow, Trulia and the free portals are best thing in RE The MLS’s of the world need to wake up: Zillow’s taking over    pollcode.com free polls   

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Building it Back Up: Remodeling a 1950s Home Reminds You That They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To

By Joanna England / June 3, 2014 /

My home has been standing since 1952, according to DCAD. In that time it has seen a cycle of haphazard “renovations,” including a rather embarrassing “remodel” of the home’s sole bathroom. My home didn’t come with the cute vintage Daltile in the many different colors of the rainbow, nor did it have one of those…

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Don’t Mess With Texas Highways: Demolish a Downtown Dallas Highway to Spur Real Estate Investment? Part I of a Two-Part Series

By Candy Evans / April 16, 2014 /

Dallas is a fascinating place to live right now. Downtown, urbanists are lobbying for the tear-down of a short but squirrely elevated highway they believe is choking urban living, creating a schism of disruption between neighborhoods and sucking up dirt that could be developed as housing units. Go north of the Park Cities to the…

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Steve Wolens Owns a Unit at The Athena While Wife Laura Gets Involved in Transwestern Dispute

By Candy Evans / April 14, 2014 /

You know all about the fracas Behind the Pink Wall, the “No” signs all over Preston Hollow. And you know that former Mayor Laura Miller (and former City Councilman Mitchell Rasanksy, both of whom live in Preston Hollow) have asked Jennifer Gates to get another proxy beside City Councilman Lee Kleinman because he isn’t “willing…

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