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Fort Worth Real Estate Wants to be Global, Too — Trewly!

By Candy Evans | February 23, 2012 |

Oh the battle for the high end real estate dollar is getting heated up in our sister city to the west, Fort Worth. Williams Trew, a high end Fort Worth residential real estate firm, is becoming an affiliate of Sotheby’s International beginning May 1. The company will be re-named Williams Trew Sotheby’s International Realty, the companies said officially Thursday.

Real Estate Agents Give Inman’s Agent ReBoot a (Perfect) Ten

By Candy Evans | February 23, 2012 |

Social. Mobile. Tech. Video. Gadgets. Blogs. If you are in real estate, they can make or break your career. If you are just getting in, bless you, you’d better know what they all are. And if you are too cheap to pay the $49 fee, you can always play our “Whose The Agent Contest” to…

Thursday Three Hundred: You Will Never Find This House. So Close, and Yet, So Far…

By Candy Evans | February 23, 2012 |

First of all, I’m cheating, but I can because I live in Dallas. It’s Thursday $300K and this home is $400K, but go ahead, make an offer. The price has already been lowered by $30K and DCAD has it appraised at $366K, so there! Talk about a great little woodsy, tucked away location… 6520 Linden is…

The House of Gold — That is, Champ D’Or — Will Soon be Surrounded by… Aspirational Starter Homes?

By Candy Evans | February 23, 2012 |

Or Mini Champs. McMansion Champs –McChamps! This could be why Alan Goldfield has decided to auction off the over the top dream chateau with the Chanel Boutique-replica closet etc. etc. that he has been trying to sell for almost ten years up there in Hictory Creek. A few weeks ago I found out that a chunk…

In Dallas, We Like to Cheat: Big D On Top Ten List of Members on Adultery Websites.

By Candy Evans | February 23, 2012 |

We skidded in at Number 9, but no wonder we love big bedrooms so darn much! Dallas still made it into the Top Ten! Washington, D.C. made the tip top of the list of U.S. cities with the most members per capita at Ashley Madison, that notorious adult dating web site for married people who like to, well, cheat. The website says it has around 13 million members in 17 countries around the world; and here’s a shocker: AM membership spiked by a whopping 977 percent on February 15. Guess wives go out and cheat on husbands when they don’t like their Valentines Day gift, which is why I just buy my own!

A Contest at CandysDirt.com: Tell Me EVERY AGENT Who Has Listed Champ D’Or…

By Candy Evans | February 22, 2012 |

The winner gets a ticket to next Wednesday’s Inman Agent reBoot… 6 hours of learning fun and of course, gossip! Hint: Joan Eleazer with Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s was first and, quite possibly, the last agent. Hey, be happy I didn’t ask for how much all these agents spent in marketing…