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Deion Sanders Takes $21 Million, 29,000 Square Foot Mansion OFF Market

By Candy Evans | August 7, 2011 |

Guess he’s not feeling real bullish about the market these days. Deion Sanders has snapped his whopping 29,000-square-foot home way north of Dallas off the market. You know the one — drive due north on Preston Road to Prosper, and there it sits on 109 acres. He even has his own football field.  Sanders has had the…

When It’s Too Hot In Dallas, It’s Time to Escape to The Ranch

By Candy Evans | August 5, 2011 |

When the mercury pushes 100 degrees, life is just cooler on a ranch. Which is where we are going over on SecondShelters…

Friday Ranch Porn: Too Hot To Live In Dallas, Get Thee To A Ranch STAT

By Candy Evans | August 5, 2011 |

I think we can honestly survive 100 degree plus temps better on a ranch. Less concrete, more trees and shade. I love the ranch life and in my perfect world I’d have a ranch a few hundred miles away from Dallas, our beach house in Maine, my beach condo in Florida on the Gulf coast,…

Houston, We’ve Got a Bargain in Preston Hollow Reduced For Quick Sale — Steal This House!

By Candy Evans | August 5, 2011 |

Now here’s a serious seller: 6506 Waggoner has just been reduced to $1,299,000 from $1,685,000. And I am having deja vue of the year 2000 when we looked for homes on this great street — Waggoner is a plumb rue up in the Hollow — because at this price, it might as well be 1999! This charming English…

Do Designer Dogs Sell Properties? Staging a Home to Sell With Live Pets – Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans | August 5, 2011 |

I knew it was only a matter of time before this happened. After all, Realtors have been stealing tips from ad pros for years to make homes look glorious in photographs to entice buyers. What have I been telling you for years — it’s all about the photos, right? Now we hear that “placement pets“, as…

Separating Distressed from Non-Distressed Properties, Home Prices Not So Slumpy: Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans | August 4, 2011 |

View more videos at: http://www.nbcdfw.com. Here’s part two of my KXAS gig over on Nonstop Nightly. The summer has not been kind to Dallas real estate prices, and now we have a guy in Flower Mound who thinks he can snag a home for a filing fee: welcome to the crazy world of real estate,…