Dallas real estate news

Real Estate News: Dallas Is Real Estate Market to Watch in 2019

By Bethany Erickson / October 22, 2018 /

How did the Dallas real estate market become the market to watch next year, but not make the top of a list of rising home values? We take a look at recent reports in this week’s real estate market news roundup. NEW REPORT TAPS DALLAS AS MARKET TO WATCH IN 2019 After falling to number…

Little Rock’s Historic Villa Marre Has Recent Designing Past

By Bethany Erickson / October 21, 2018 /

In the Candy’s Media Group family, there’s at least one person with a special place in her heart for the sitcom Designing Women (maybe specifically, Julia Sugarbaker, but that’s neither here nor there). So that one person may have gotten very excited when the historic Villa Marre in Little Rock went on the market. Why?…

From Facebook: What Do You Do With an Uncooperative Seller?

By Bethany Erickson / October 20, 2018 /

This week’s Friday Question had its genesis in a conundrum we faced here at CandysDirt — we found a local listing that was quite well, not conducive to good marketing of a home, to put it delicately. At the time, we talked amongst ourselves about why the photos in the listing may have looked the…

Renovated Modern Contemporary Benefits From Acclaimed Mark Ashby Touch

By Bethany Erickson / October 20, 2018 /

Austin-based designer Mark Ashby has a reputation for creating wow-worthy interiors, whether he’s working on a Montana ranch or a sleek, modern city loft. And our Saturday Seven Hundred this week is a home that definitely got the benefit of that impeccable eye. Realtor and designer Paige Poupart told us that her initial walkthrough of…

Dallas ISD Trustees Make Unusual Move to Reassure TRE Voters

By Bethany Erickson / October 20, 2018 /

In a bid to reassure voters, Dallas ISD trustees took the unusual move adopting a resolution that pledges to spend the first projected surplus a tax ratification election, or TRE , could produce on specific initiatives, including one that strategically increases employee salaries. But the move was not without a lot of debate.   Trustee…