News
The story broke in The New York Times today, and it only affects Manhattan and Miami real estate right now… but get ready. The Feds are tired of cash buyers who hide their identities in “shell ownership” of luxury real estate. I, for one, am happy as it is so hard to chase down ownership…
The December housing numbers from Local Market Monitor Report are not painting a rosy picture of the real estate market in Midland, and home values are forecast to decrease over the next 12 months. Since their peak in the first quarter of 2015, home prices in Midland have fallen by 3 percent. The average home price in this market…
Welcome to a brand new series on CandysDirt.com called “Five Questions With …” in which we will feature all the amazing real estate industry professionals outside the broker and agent circles. Title professionals, inspectors, remodelers, stagers, appraisers, loan officers … the real estate industry is rich with different trades and perspectives, and we want to…
Millionaire, that’s so passe. What does it buy you? An average house, a tiny vacation home. Hunter Dehn is buying a handful of Powerball tickets to give away at tonight’s open house at the brilliant Barrett Durrow property I wrote you about a few months ago at 3108 Bryn Mawr in University Park… he’s got…
[Editor’s note: A version of this story was originally published in the May 2012 issue of enLIGHTenment. Reproduced with permission.] Bruce Graf has had his share of unusual requests such as a bedroom that incorporates a wood porch and screen door; and an outdoor patio cover designed to look like a giant butterfly. In fact,…
Last weekend I watched the story unfold about an historic home down in The Cedars, one of Dallas oldest neighborhoods. It’s hard to imagine that in the 1800’s stately Victorian cottages and mansions with massive cedar trees — hence the name — lined the streets and housed the city’s moneyed in this neighborhood. Dallas was…
