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New York Times best-selling author, speaker, marketer and motivator Gary Vaynerchuk was in town tonight at what I called a mini-Inman Connect — a digital/tech/social marketing/get with it communications conference at the Lakewood Theater Wednesday evening. Gary is so cool and what I love best about him is that I cannot describe him easily in…

Dear Tax Doctor: What are the typical arguments that the city makes for raising the value of the improvement when there have been no upgrades to the property since the previous evaluation?¬† Also, what are the best counters to the city arguments other than comps.¬† Thank you. Christopher McGuire, Vice President, Briggs Freeman | Sotheby’s…

Realtor.com released the top metro areas for real estate search — that is, the places where more people are looking to buy homes, and guess who made it big on the list? Dallas. Metro areas in the South and West dominated the list of the 10 most-searched real estate markets for the month of April,…

Michael and Kittrick Hinojosa own a gorgeous home on Idlewood that should be hitting the market any day now. It will be interesting because he had it on the market with Debbie Sherrington from August 28, 2009 to last August 31. And it did not sell. Asking price $875,000 reduced from $899,000. The Hinojosas bought…

A reader writes: We are somewhat new homeowners living in Lake Highlands (75238) where the Dallas CAD has our property values all over the place.¬† Our home is not updated, except for one bathroom.¬† We are appraising on the CAD for $215K.¬† What is frustrating is that my next door neighbor (I have not been…