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Need Your Input: How Will Detroit's Bankruptcy Affect its Housing Market?

By Candy Evans | July 25, 2013 |

Jeeze Louise. $18.5 billion in debt. Will city workers, firemen and policemen, get their pensions? Does the garbage get picked up?  This is a great piece by Morgan Brennan over at FORBES on how other cities that have endured bankruptcy are seeing home prices start to stabilize and inch up. Of course, that is happening…

Troy Has Moved: Why Were There Moving Vans in Front of Troy Aikman's House Yesterday? Where is he Going?

By Candy Evans | July 25, 2013 |

Oh these sleepy summer months when everyone is out of town at their summer home, like in Santa Barbara. What a perfect time for someone to slip out of their “no-longer on the market home” at 4425 Highland Drive, and slip into another home in Highland Park? I am told there were no less than…

Realtor.com Just Got a Big Boost Today From the NAR in the Windy City

By Candy Evans | July 25, 2013 |

This is something that you may not think is a big deal, unless you are voraciously house hunting and use Realtor.com Trulia and Zillow a lot. The board of directors of the National Association of Realtors voted in Chicago today to give Move Inc., the company that operates Realtor.com, more freedom and flexibility to compete with…

Home of the Week: Choose Your Own Adventure With This Midcentury Beauty

By Joanna England | July 24, 2013 |

Sure, fully updated properties are great. They mean little to no work for the buyer, and if you get a good home warranty, you’re covered should anything go wrong. The downside? You have to live with someone else’s tile choices in the kitchen and bath, and why is that wall still there? You may never…

Kathy Nealy's Terrace Condo to be Sold at Next Foreclosure Auction, She Being "Victim of an Investigation"

By Candy Evans | July 24, 2013 |

Let me be clear from the very start: this is unit 616 at The Terrace at Victory Park.  Kathy Nealy’s unit was 216 on the second floor, but exact same square footage  (1196) and save for being higher and maybe a different color marble in the kitchen or master, pretty similar. Robert Wilonsky at the…

Candy's Lease of the Week: Updated Condo in The Heart of Turtle Creek

By Joanna England | July 24, 2013 |

Commuting to Uptown can be such a bear! Ain’t nobody got time for that! If you’re tired of spending half of your day battling traffic, spending oodles on gas, then consider moving into this fabulous two-story condo in the heart of Turtle Creek. At 3500 Routh Street Unit #5 you’ll find an impeccably updated, artfully…