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Join Us Tuesday Evening at Heritage Auction For a Panel Chat on Luxury Real Estate and How Auctions Are Changing It!

By Candy Evans / September 9, 2013 /

If you are on our email list, which you should be because we have some very cool parties, then you know that I am a panel speaker tomorrow evening at Heritage Luxury Real Estate Auctions 2nd Tuesday… along with Ben Jones, Brad Kimple, and those fantastic Heritage folks Nate Schar and Scott Foerst, who know everything…

Hunt, Fish, Relax, Repeat at our Ranch of the Week on SecondShelters.com

By Joanna England / August 30, 2013 /

Picturesque views and great hunting just two and and a half hours outside Dallas? You know you want it. Find out more about our Ranch of the Week on SecondShelters.com!

Long Cove on Cedar Creek Lake: Clearly the Most Remarkable Vacation Home Spot in North Texas for Old Fashioned FUN

By Candy Evans / August 30, 2013 /

Don McNarama does real estate developments, and he does them right. He is the investor responsible for Dallas’ well-known CityPlace, which includes the West Village urban developments. West Village has become a virtual synonym for successful urban commercial real estate development. If I had a dime for every time a developer said to me, “we are building…

Love of Water Runs Deep: WaterFront Living Costs 63% More Than Living on the Land: WSJ

By Candy Evans / August 27, 2013 /

We probably know it deep in our gut, but luxury vacation homes built on the water cost 63% more, on average, than similar properties that are land-locked. This from a global property consultant, Knight Frank, who scrutinized the ten most popular second home destinations around the world. And if they have to cover naked beaches…

Great News for Sun Valley/Ketchum: Pre-Fire Evacuation Statuses Lifted

By Candy Evans / August 24, 2013 /

I was in Denver last year when the Waldo Canyon fires were burning, and at least 650 homes — maybe more — burned. That’s why I was closely watching, this week, the Beaver Creek, Idaho fires that were threatening Sun Valley. The Ketchum ski community has been trying to make a real estate come-back, fire…