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Dallas Area AVERAGE Home Prices Up, Purchases Down: Not Quite the Doom & Gloom Show!

By Candy Evans / June 9, 2011 /

Read Steve Brown and you might say what someone from last month’s ULI Conference told me they felt like doing after the opening session: committing suicide. Steve says north Texas pre-owned home purchases were down 15 percent in May — the 12th consecutive month of declines, a solid year of flushing. Real estate agents last…

How to Jazz Up Your Next Open House: Buy a Triceratops?

By Candy Evans / June 8, 2011 /

I thought it was bad when I had a shrunken head in my house. But there’s probably one thing worse than a shrunken head in your house: the 21-foot-long boney remains of a flesh-eating dinosaur. On Sunday, Heritage Auction Gallery –third largest auction house in the country and rising — is offering what is probably…

Your Medicaid Tax Dollars at Work Over on Strait Lane? Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / June 7, 2011 /

I’m not going to do too much work here, going to defer to Byron Harris over at WFAA-TV Channel 8 to do most of the heavy lifting. Keep your eyes peeled to him for a report coming up involving these properties. My eyes are permanently peeled to Dallas real estate. In March, I was alerted…

Own Chef Extraordinaire Tre Wilcox Cedar Hill Home for Less Than $300K

By Candy Evans / June 7, 2011 /

Bravo’s All-Star Chef¬† Tre Wilcox might be getting tired of moving boxes pretty soon. Seems like just a few months ago he moved from LOFT 610 to The Marquee Grill and Village Theater in Highland Park Village, which has quickly taken over Cafe Pacific as the darling lunch¬† be-seen diner for Park Cities/Preston Hollow Realtors.…

Second Shelters is About to Have a Sibling: Real Gutsy Dallas Real Estate News Coming Up

By Candy Evans / June 6, 2011 /

Counting the Braxton-Hicks contractions over here at SecondShelters.com where we are about to launch a sibling blog called… CandysDirt.com. After much soul-searching, a few wine-laden focus groups, and a whole bunch of email, we have decided to do some organizing. (Ha! Then you get knocked up!) Vacation home news will rule on SecondShelters.com as it…