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Luxury Second Home Fractional Sales Heating Up: Calistoga Ranch Sells Out

By Candy Evans | April 11, 2013 |

In California, they have even sold out of the most famous outdoor showers in the world!  The  award-winning Calistoga Ranch in the Napa Valley has sold out of its private residence club offering. It seems Americans love their vacation homes again. Vacation home sales in the United States increased 10.1 percent in 2012. 553,000 units…

Former Trammel Crow Exec J. McDonald Williams is Selling His $9.75M Bluffview Contemporary — OMG House P!

By Joanna England | April 11, 2013 |

You can tell when someone hasn’t spent much time in Dallas when they refer to our summers. They use words like “scorching,” “oppressive,” or some other generic term. In Curbed‘s case, they say that “a long lap pool also features plenty of seating for guests beleaguered by the hot Dallas summer,” in their write up…

Hot DFW Housing Market, but Slim Pickin's: Why Our Market Is Like Filene's Basement Right Now

By Candy Evans | April 11, 2013 |

Well yes, it’s not even mid-April and it’s a mad house out there in the inner-loop real estate world. Sales of pre-owned single-family homes in March rose 22 percent from 2012. 7,483 properties sold. That’s the highest number of home sales since March, 2007. And we all know what happened after 2007. Hot discussion Wednesday…

Hot DFW Housing Market, but Slim Pickin’s: Why Our Market Is Like Filene’s Basement Right Now

By Candy Evans | April 11, 2013 |

Well yes, it’s not even mid-April and it’s a mad house out there in the inner-loop real estate world. Sales of pre-owned single-family homes in March rose 22 percent from 2012. 7,483 properties sold. That’s the highest number of home sales since March, 2007. And we all know what happened after 2007. Hot discussion Wednesday…

We Asked, They Answered: District 11's Ori Raphael Tells Us His Views on Dallas Real Estate's Hot-Button Issues

By Joanna England | April 10, 2013 |

Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of our series of Dallas City Council candidate questionnaires. You can view the first here and the second here. We attempted to contact each candidate in every contested race (10 races total), and those who responded with a working email address received the same eight questions. We gave…

We Asked, They Answered: District 11’s Ori Raphael Tells Us His Views on Dallas Real Estate’s Hot-Button Issues

By Joanna England | April 10, 2013 |

Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of our series of Dallas City Council candidate questionnaires. You can view the first here and the second here. We attempted to contact each candidate in every contested race (10 races total), and those who responded with a working email address received the same eight questions. We gave…