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The Glow of Real Estate: Do You Have It? How to get It!

By Candy Evans | March 29, 2013 |

I have The Glow of Real Estate. It happens whenever I talk about Real Estate, marketing on the internet, and how hot our market is. It also helps to be standing in front of a group of my fave Realtors in front of a great big screen with CandysDirt.com projecting on a projector. The Glow…

Top-5 Friday: Florida Gulf Coast Puts Up More Than a Great Basketball Team

By Joanna England | March 29, 2013 |

It’s March Madness, so we took a cue from our nation’s obsession with basketball to showcase some great properties in Fort Myers, Fla., home of Florida Gulf Coast University, this year’s NCAA Basketball Tournament Cindarella story. In my opinion, this city is an ideal spot for a second home. There’s a great mix of rentals,…

Friday Five Hundred: North Dallas Beauty is Just a Couple of Miles From The Bushes, And Has Great Hedges!

By Joanna England | March 29, 2013 |

Our dear friend and commenter, Wyman Elrod, sent us this gorgeous North Dallas home. We are just as smitten with it as he is, and for good reason — it’s practically a supermodel! I feel like I should go ahead and tell you that this home, 7108 Briarmeadow, is about two miles from the Bush…

North Dallas Residents Say Walmart at Arapaho And Coit Would Flood Streets With Traffic, Hurt Property Values, And Bring More Crime

By Joanna England | March 28, 2013 |

Great piece by Eric Nicholson on Unfair Park today about residents fighting a proposed Walmart at Coit and Arapaho roads. The area has seen a pretty steady decline in recent years, with retailers leaving and the shopping center at Coit and Campbell roads growing. But the owners have plans to add a 90,000-square-foot Walmart Supercenter…

Dallas Real Estate Market Almost Back to Golden Days. Almost. Sigh.

By Candy Evans | March 28, 2013 |

So D’Ann Petersen told Sheryl Jean at the Dallas Morning News that home prices are rising so fast in North Texas, she’s tempted to sell her house. D’Ann Petersen is a business economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. My question for her is this: if you sell, where would you go? Inventory is so…

Real Estate Council Lists Dallas City Council Endorsements; Leland Burk Balks Over Choice of Jennifer Staubach Gates in District 13 Race

By Joanna England | March 28, 2013 |

The Dallas Real Estate Council made its recommendations for all contested Dallas City Council races, but there’s a bit of bitterness over the council’s choice in District 13. Rudy Bush at the DMN’s Local Politics blog has the full story. Basically, by choosing Jennifer Staubach Gates over Leland Burk in District 13, the council showed…