Dallas real estate news

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Hits $1 Billion in Sales, Earliest Milestone EVER

By Candy Evans / July 17, 2014 /

It is ironic that I am in San Francisco at Inman Real Estate Connect, along with Ellen Sedeno, Marketing Director at Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s IR. Hanne Sagalowsky is here, too, from Ebby, and I’m sure there are more. We are filling our heads with the latest technological tools coming down the pike for agents and consumers,…

Alan Peppard Covers for Me While I’m In San Francisco: John Post DID Tear Down a 19,000 SqFt House on Strait Lane

By Candy Evans / July 17, 2014 /

Well, kind of. I didn’t have time to get you the background dirt circa early ’80s on the breathtaking Oats home at the southwest corner of Strait and Royal — you know, this week’s $19.5 million Monday Morning Millionaire. I was busy getting ready to head to San Francisco for Connect. Thankfully, Alan Peppard took…

D.R. Horton Is Being a Better Neighbor Over on Bryan Street

By Candy Evans / July 17, 2014 /

Remember when we showed you what we thought was the less than stellar job of corporate responsibility from the D. R. Horton folks at their Bryan Place development called “Exall Townhomes”? Well well, seems like our little blog post based on communication from a reader, along with a few photos, moved a few mountains.  Or at…

Inwood Mortgage Home of the Week: A Noble New Home Stuffed to the Gills for Less Than $1Mil in White Rock Elementary

By Candy Evans / July 17, 2014 /

I think I have seen it all. This is a great big brand new family home that can be your’s for less than one million, in a new subdivision just south of LBJ Freeway — the ALMOST FINISHED LBJ Freeway, in a hot school district. And it even has a front porch! Here you have…

If Print is Dying, Why Do Realtors Still Waste Money Advertising on a Corpse?

By Candy Evans / July 16, 2014 /

You may have gotten the message: newspapers and some print products are in financial trouble. Newspapers, and now even broadcast, has a shrinking audience. The number of people who used a print newspaper in the last week to get local news ranged from 36% in metro areas to 42% in small cities, according to a study released…