Dallas real estate

Growing, Growing, Gone: Dallas Market is Fully Recovered From Recession, But NAR Report Shows Pending Sales Are Dropping

By Joanna England / November 5, 2013 /

It’s official: According to the latest numbers from CoreLogic, the Dallas-area real estate market is fully recovered from the recession and housing bubble. Dallas real estate prices are up 9.7 percent according to the CoreLogic HPI report. Nationally, prices are up 12 percent year-over-year, too, the report showed, showing that regions across the U.S. are…

Finally: A Dallas Morning News Reporter Says Something Nice About Museum Tower

By Candy Evans / October 21, 2013 /

Real Estate agent Scott Deakins’ Golden Retriever Heath looking at Museum Tower “It’s a damn, fine building!” Yes, MetroTex Forecast 2014 was Friday, and I don’t think one contract was written across town as half the North Texas real estate community was at the Renaissance Hotel listening to Dr. Jim Gaines, Phil Crone, Tom Woliver,…

Forecast 2014: Is The Hot Dallas Market Finally Cooling Its Jets?

By Candy Evans / October 18, 2013 /

Well we cannot blame this one on the Republicans: the Dallas real estate market, which had been in a heated frenzy ever since about January 2, has finally cooled heels a bit. It started on Labor Day, Ebby agent Kay Weeks told Steve Brown, when higher mortgage rates and economic uncertainties cooled the market as…

Who Reads CandysDirt Daily? The Rich, Powerful & Beautiful, Like Ebby Halliday

By Candy Evans / October 11, 2013 /

In her St. Johns en route to Jerry’s World!

Jose Calderone Scores Points With Clean University Park Manse on Villanova

By Candy Evans / September 18, 2013 /

Jose Calderone, the Mav’s new point guard, came to Dallas from Detroit and I would just love to be a fly on the wall when he and his wife, Ana Hurtado, talk about Dallas real estate. Here is how I think it might have gone the very first time they looked: “Can you believe these…