Dallas real estate news

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…

There’s Gold in This Northwest Dallas Dirt: Buy, Lease, Hold, Build

By Candy Evans / July 15, 2014 /

This is one of my favorite areas in Dallas, one that always holds a ton of promise and where we can see evidence of real estate development progress every day. I am talking about Thornberry Lane, right off Northwest Highway, west of Midway but before Mixon and Marsh. To the north and east are multi…

Crime Report: Will You (Not) Take a Check? Also: Have Your Cake and Get it Thrown at Your Garage, Too

By Zachary Dickens / July 15, 2014 /

Our crime report has been on hiatus because the Dallas Police Department has been trying to upgrade its online database. Until they get the kinks worked out, we’re limited to telling you about residential crimes in the Park Cities. At 10 a.m. on July 7, a resident of the 4500 block of Lorraine Avenue reported…

Monday Morning Millionaire Extraordinaire: President Obama Should Just Go Ahead and Buy the Dallas White House for His Next Visit

By Candy Evans / July 14, 2014 /

It’s July, it’s getting hot, muggy, who’s really working? Take the day off and go to a pool and pretend you are swimming at this house, the famous Dallas White House at the corner of the regal Lanes Strait and Royal. Last week when President Obama was in Dallas, he should have toured this house…