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Candy's Lease of the Week: Beautiful West Highland Park Ranch is Perfect For Executives New to The Area

By Joanna England | May 29, 2013 |

Temporary housing can be so boring sometimes. When you move to an area and are looking for a place to spend the next 9 to 12 months while you find a home to buy, sometimes the best idea is to rent near the area you’re considering purchasing. That’s what’s great about this gorgeous ranch in…

Candy’s Lease of the Week: Beautiful West Highland Park Ranch is Perfect For Executives New to The Area

By Joanna England | May 29, 2013 |

Temporary housing can be so boring sometimes. When you move to an area and are looking for a place to spend the next 9 to 12 months while you find a home to buy, sometimes the best idea is to rent near the area you’re considering purchasing. That’s what’s great about this gorgeous ranch in…

Four More Days to Protest Property Taxes: Who Pays the Least, Who Pays the Most in North Texas?

By Candy Evans | May 28, 2013 |

You have a few more days to protest your property taxes, then it’s all over for another year. While he sifts through the late-comers who decide they need a pro to help them lower property values before the May 31 deadline, I asked Rob Wheelock to give us the low down on  property tax rates…

Dallas Real Estate News: Case-Schiller Composite Shows Dallas Home Prices Continue To Climb, But Economic Recovery is Slow

By Joanna England | May 28, 2013 |

Don’t get me wrong, I am thrilled to see Case-Schiller reporting double-digit annual growth across all composites in their latest report. The 10- and 20-city composites showed gains of 10.3 and 10.9 percent through the year ending in March 2013. For the Dallas area Home Price Level Index, the year-over-year growth according to Case-Schiller’s indicies…

Tuesday Two Hundred: With Good Looks And Great Location, This Lake Highlands Cottage is Just Perfect!

By Joanna England | May 28, 2013 |

Hope your three-day weekend was fabulous, and boy, do we have a listing to bring you back to life! Our Saturday Seven Hundred last week hails from just across North Buckner Boulevard from this week’s Tuesday Two Hundred. Sure, the gorgeous Craftsman in the Peninsula is a short walk from White Rock Lake, but if…

Beat Obamacare: Buy This Jetson-esque Richardson Ranch, Then Get Steamed & Sterilized!

By Candy Evans | May 28, 2013 |

This is a really cute house. Three bedrooms, two baths, 2100 square feet plus. Built in 1983, it was completely renovated in 2007, yielding trowel-textured walls and hand-scraped wood floors; fine designer finishes and Prairie Creek Elementary ye haw! The owners also really went all out for space age type appliances. There is an Advantium Speedcook…