Dallas real estate news

Attention Dallas Real Estate Voyeurs: Great Weekend Open Houses

By Candy Evans / June 11, 2011 /

Once CandysDirt.com is up and running, we plan a regular sweet treat/tweet for you every Friday: sneak peaks at the best open houses in town.¬†Check out some of the best House Candy in town: Open 3 to 5 pm this Sunday: 4686 Meadowood, listed by Becky Frey, Briggs Freeman Sothebys. If you don’t know this…

Best Dallas Real Estate Perk in Town: Greg Brady’s Penthouse Now Available for $7.5, Quite Possibly the Most Gorgeous Penthouse Ever

By Candy Evans / June 9, 2011 /

Oh. My. God. I have been to heaven and back. I’m talking about unit 3001 at the tip top of the Azure, a two-story, 5025 square foot custom (I mean, honey, custom) penthouse right up there next to Deion Sanders that makes his unit next door, which is leased out to a physician, by the…

Dallas Area AVERAGE Home Prices Up, Purchases Down: Not Quite the Doom & Gloom Show!

By Candy Evans / June 9, 2011 /

Read Steve Brown and you might say what someone from last month’s ULI Conference told me they felt like doing after the opening session: committing suicide. Steve says north Texas pre-owned home purchases were down 15 percent in May — the 12th consecutive month of declines, a solid year of flushing. Real estate agents last…

Second Shelters is About to Have a Sibling: Real Gutsy Dallas Real Estate News Coming Up

By Candy Evans / June 6, 2011 /

Counting the Braxton-Hicks contractions over here at SecondShelters.com where we are about to launch a sibling blog called… CandysDirt.com. After much soul-searching, a few wine-laden focus groups, and a whole bunch of email, we have decided to do some organizing. (Ha! Then you get knocked up!) Vacation home news will rule on SecondShelters.com as it…

Inside Dallas Real Estate News: One Down in 36 Hours (Becky Frey) and Doris Does Beverly Drive

By Candy Evans / June 3, 2011 /

Isn’t it funny how you hear nothing but doom & gloom out of the mainstream media? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know properties in the Loop are really doing OK, but sometimes even my natural optimism is drowned by the national media. So I approached one of my trusty sources yesterday and said, you can go…