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Home Staging: Do Designer Pets Help Sell Homes, First or Second? Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / August 7, 2011 /

I knew it was only a matter of time before this happened. After all, Realtors have been stealing tips from ad pros for years to make homes look glorious in photographs to entice buyers. What have I been telling you for years — it’s all about the photos, right? Now we hear that “placement pets“, as…

Friday Ranch Porn: Too Hot To Live In Dallas, Get Thee To A Ranch STAT

By Candy Evans / August 5, 2011 /

I think we can honestly survive 100 degree plus temps better on a ranch. Less concrete, more trees and shade. I love the ranch life and in my perfect world I’d have a ranch a few hundred miles away from Dallas, our beach house in Maine, my beach condo in Florida on the Gulf coast,…

Houston, We’ve Got a Bargain in Preston Hollow Reduced For Quick Sale — Steal This House!

By Candy Evans / August 5, 2011 /

Now here’s a serious seller: 6506 Waggoner has just been reduced to $1,299,000 from $1,685,000. And I am having deja vue of the year 2000 when we looked for homes on this great street — Waggoner is a plumb rue up in the Hollow — because at this price, it might as well be 1999! This charming English…

Separating Distressed from Non-Distressed Properties, Home Prices Not So Slumpy: Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / August 4, 2011 /

View more videos at: http://www.nbcdfw.com. Here’s part two of my KXAS gig over on Nonstop Nightly. The summer has not been kind to Dallas real estate prices, and now we have a guy in Flower Mound who thinks he can snag a home for a filing fee: welcome to the crazy world of real estate,…

Is The U.S. Economy So Bad We Need To Open Foreign Bank Accounts?

By Candy Evans / August 4, 2011 /

Mark Dotzour of Texas A&M’s Real Estate Center is one of my most trusted real estate resources. Where he goes, I  follow. So I guess I need to head to Canada and open up a bank account. Dotzour told a group of Austin Realtors that the U.S. is in serious economic trouble that is so…