James Gaines

What’s Your Home Worth Today? Probably What it Was in 2003 — Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / August 30, 2011 /

Your home value could be 4.3 % lower today than it was last year if you follow the guys over at Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller, which released their Home Price Index this week. That means home prices have been falling for an entire year in the 20 major U.S. cities that create this way over-quoted housing market indicator. Case-Shiller…

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Now The Good News: North Texas Home Sales Up 18% in July. Bad News, Prices Down

By Candy Evans / August 9, 2011 /

I am almost afraid to write this for fear of a jinx: the North Texas housing market is doing well. Like, really well. Prices are down a smidge, but July volume was way up. And maybe, just maybe, I know when we found the bottom. Steve Brown reports today that pre-owned home sales were up 18…

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Dallas Real Estate News: Case Shiller Says the Sky is No Longer Falling. Well, Not in Dallas!

By Candy Evans / April 28, 2011 /

I’m not going to say Dallas Real Estate is a hoppin’, but we are really hanging in there. Really. As I mentioned yesterday, I was in Southlake on Saturday, and I went to that adorable Southlake Town Center. Met a cute couple who were building a home in Colleyville because they had just sold their…

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