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How to Sanitize a Listing: Cleaning Expert Debbie Sardone

By Candy Evans | March 27, 2020 |

Debbie Sardone REALLY knows how to clean. She heads up the No 1 residential cleaning academy in the world, training other cleaning company owners, and she owns the largest residential cleaning company here in North Texas: Buckets & Bows Cleaning Service. To make it even more relevant, her son is Dallas builder Steven Sardone, who…

This Terribly Cute Tudor Is The Cure-All We Need Right Now

By Amy Puchaty | March 27, 2020 |

Tudor anyone? This one is up for grabs in Greenland Hills for $599,000. Yes, that’s right. This M Streets Tudor is a Friday Five Hundred you can’t afford to miss. Sure, its interiors are bold. Its kitchen is a bit sassy. But it has great bones! And a massive fenced backyard, and loads of character.…

Quirky Monticello Fixer Upper at a Bargain Price

By Eric Prokesh | March 27, 2020 |

Quirky? Perhaps I am doing this singular Monticello listing at 3741 Hamilton Avenue an injustice. The listing describes the style as eclectic. Whatever it is, it isn’t boring and in 1930, when this house was built, it must have been unusually eye catching. Built on a large lot, at the corner of Hamilton Avenue and…

How Single Adults Are Changing The Real Estate Market And Why

By Jon Anderson | March 26, 2020 |

In 1969, Three Dog Night sang, “One is the loneliest number.” Is it time to retool that to, “One is the happiest number”?  I’ve written before that homebuilding in the US is short millions of homes as a result of the continuing underbuilding that began in 2008 (here, here, here). In Dallas, we’re tens of…

You Can’t Get a Clear Look at Dallas Real Estate Through a National Lens

By Candy Evans | March 26, 2020 |

Local real estate media is spouting off about how COVID-19 is affecting the real estate market in Dallas. And it may not be totally accurate, either. So yeah, excuse me, I’m in a fit of rage. “Home showings down as much as 60% as North Texas firms prepare for slowdown” “With fewer home showings and…

Ebby Halliday Co. Advice: ‘Selling Will Take Patience But Keeping Your Home on the Market Is Vital’

By Candy Evans | March 26, 2020 |

North Texas is home. Through wars, recessions, natural disasters, and other challenges, our great region has not only survived, it has thrived. North Texas is being tested again, this time by a virus that many of us, only weeks ago, had never even heard of. At the Ebby Halliday Companies, we are concerned first and…