Realtor News

How Dallas Real Estate Helped Karen Luter Become “The Man I Wanted to Marry”

By Cynthia Stine / January 8, 2013 /

For more than 40 years, Karen Luter of Allie Beth Allman & Associates has been blazing trails in Dallas real estate. She became a broker in 1982 and has been a consistent multimillion dollar producer ever since. She opened new territory in the luxury home market in Dallas, helped developers re-brand themselves for the high…

Dallas Real Estate 2012, The Year & Star Agents in Review: Guess Who Will Be The Stars of 2013?

By Candy Evans / January 8, 2013 /

My official 2012 real estate wrap is up on CultureMap.com, whose Dallas debut is definitely one of the best things that happened to our city in 2012. Talk about changing the face of Dallas media! (We need it!) I spent New Year’s Eve and most of last week musing over the biggest and best Dallas real estate deals and agents of the year — and really, truly, I have to say it all started with the April auction sale of Champs D’Or, which made awesome broker agent Clay Stapp a mighty happy man as he brought the buyer. I expect more great things from Clay Stapp & Associates in the coming year.

Monday Morning Millionaire: Deion Sanders Lists His Azure Penthouse for $4.8 Million… Get Ready to DROOL Over This Roof-Top POOL

By Candy Evans / January 7, 2013 /

2900 McKinnon # 3002 is on the market for $4,800,000. Sound pricey? No way. This is Deion Sanders downtown baby, a beautiful two-story condo across from Greg Brady’s penthouse once on the market for a whopping $7.9 million, now reduced for quick sale at $5.9 million. Deion’s pad started out at $5 million, actually I…

Dallas Developer Jack Matthews Said to be Making a Bid to Buy Museum Tower

By Candy Evans / January 5, 2013 /

Just read this over on the Dallas Morning News Scoop Blog: Dallas Developer Jack Matthews has, for weeks, been negotiating a potential deal to buy Museum Tower with the owners, the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, according to DMN sources. If true, this sparks hope that a change of management for the tower could help…

Another Case-Shiller Report Calls for a Toast: Home Prices Up 4.3% Nationally, 4.6% in Big D

By Candy Evans / December 28, 2012 /

They may be talking Fiscal Cliff in D.C., but you can only say good things about our housing market unless, that is, you live in Chicago. Or New York. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Index shows home prices continued to rise in October, with prices up 4.3% annually within the 20-city composite index that S&P scrutinizes…