Realtor News

Help This Poor Girl Sell Her Totes Adorbs Condo — Still On Market Three Buyers Later

By Candy Evans / January 31, 2014 /

OK, so we know our market is hot and inventory is down to less than a three month supply. According to Case Shiller, Dallas home prices rose 9.9 percent from November 2012 to November 2013. So why hasn’t 3311 Blackburn #220, the Colonade at Turtle Creek, sold? It is PRECIOUS! This happens to be owned…

More Competition, Higher Prices Mean Fewer First-Time Homebuyers Finding Way Into Dallas Market

By Joanna England / January 30, 2014 /

First-time homebuyers are finding it harder and harder to get into their dream home.

The National Association of Realtors said that first-time homebuyers make up only 28 percent of the national housing market in a Jan. 28 new story, the lowest number since the organization started measuring the demographic in 2008. According to the NAR, first-time homebuyers typically make up about 40 percent of the market, but several factors are keeping them from purchasing a home, including higher competition for lower priced properties, which are being swept up by investors at increasingly high rates.

Build It, and They Will Come… in Droves to Lease in North Texas

By Candy Evans / January 30, 2014 /

If it appears that apartments are going up on every street corner in Dallas, well, they are. The Dallas-Fort Worth are is going to be the nation’s top apartment leasing market over the next three years, according to a new report by the folks at Jones Lang LaSalle. Perhaps you, like me, see the cranes…

The Williamsburg (and Bushwick) of Dallas? Oak Cliff and Deep Ellum?

By Candy Evans / January 29, 2014 /

Gawker asks, “What is your city’s Williamsburg? What’s its hippest—or formerly hippest—or sometimes just youngest—neighborhood, the one with the art galleries and the boutiques and the lines for brunch? (And what, for that matter, is its Bushwick, or “Next Williamsburg”?) If you don’t know off the top of your head, don’t worry. We do, thanks…

Breaking: Champ d’Or Listed for $35 Million in Hickory Creek

By Candy Evans / January 28, 2014 /

The Dallas real estate market is back, and so is Champ d’Or, listed this time with that go-getter of a Rogers Healy, priced at $35 million. You may recall the 48,000-square-foot Hickory Creek mansion (basically Denton), known as Champ d’Or, which translates to “Fields of Gold,” was put up for auction by Concierge Auctions out of New…