Second Shelters

More Cases for the Tax Doctor: How to File a Protest from Out of Town?

By Candy Evans / May 24, 2011 /

Dear Tiffany: I own a small condo in Dallas tax value $49,500. The property has been listed for over 8 months now for $38,500 and the only offer received over 6 months ago was $35,000! I live in California now. What‚Äôs the best way to file a protest on this property? Thank you. -J Hang…

Breaking Dallas Real Estate News: Aikman House is Listed for $24 Million, NOT $27.5

By Candy Evans / May 23, 2011 /

Troy Aikman’s Dallas real estate just got a whole lot more affordable! Thanks to Alan Peppard, who called Troy over the weekend and spoke with him, and who insisted the price of his Highland Drive home had been entered wrong both in MLS and on Allie Beth Allman’s website as $27.5, The REAL price is…

HGTV’s Vern Yip Loves Second Homes

By Candy Evans / May 23, 2011 /

I caught up with Vern Yip, star of HGTV’s way popular design shows, when he popped in to visit I.O. Metro up near the Dallas Galleria last week. Yip has a new partnership with the Little Rock, Arkansas-based store that offers a wide variety of stylish, sleek but hip, good-looking and comfortable home furnishings at…

Dallas Real Estate Market Report: Facts & Figures, Not Crane Counting

By Candy Evans / May 23, 2011 /

Thinking of buying a house in Dallas but wonder when the sweet spot really hits? Last week, the Financial Times blessed us with a rather simple-minded story on how much better our economy is faring in Dallas. The criteria? A crane-count. (Last time I was in Manhattan, there were a ton of cranes there, too.)…

Dallas Real Estate News: Troy’s House Story

By Candy Evans / May 23, 2011 /

Alan Peppard had the history of the Aikman property over on Highland in his column yesterday, and it brought me flash-backs of the day I heard, way back in 2004, that Aikman had bought an old home on a primo Highland Park corner. The story was that the house was not on the market, but…