Lakewood real estate

Friday Five Hundred: Fabulous Find on Mmmm Streets for $539,000

By Candy Evans / January 13, 2012 /

We all love the Mmmmmm Streets, as I call them. Here is an angel at 6232 McCommas just waiting in the wings: updated home in absolute move in, mint condition. Cape cod style with dormers makes you think it’s nestled in Connecticut or even The Hamptons. Still, you get about 2500 square feet of southern charm in this…

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Tuesday Two Hundred: Adorable Austin Stone on Ellsworth, $274,500 House for the (Newly) Hitched

By Candy Evans / January 10, 2012 /

This puppy is new to the market or I would have found her sooner! 5742 Ellsworth. Have you ever seen anything more adorable? First of all, I am as big a sucker for Austin stone ANYTHING as I am Dartmouth men. I own an Austin stone cottage in San Antonio. When we added HVAC they…

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Tuesday Two Hundred: 2450 Mercifully Gorgeous Square Feet on Mercer, Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / December 27, 2011 /

  I am being sooo lazy this week, but I could not stay away from the keyboard when I saw this home. Oh. My. God. I honestly almost called Vicki White at Keller Williams to tell her she had a typo on the price — but no! This is the real deal: 2550 beautiful and…

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The East Dallas Report: Will That Drop in Stonewall Jackson’s Academic Ratings Rattle Lakewood Real Estate?

By Candy Evans / October 5, 2011 /

By Bruce Felps, editor of the East Dallas Times Stonewall Jackson Elementary School, near the border of the M Streets-Greenland Hills neighborhood, recently took an academic rating hit from the Texas Education Agency. TEA dropped Stonewall’s rating from “exemplary” to “acceptable,” a drop of two rungs in the course of one school year. The decline…

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Is Lakewood The New Uptown? Dallas Real Estate News and (Millennial) Views

By Candy Evans / July 21, 2011 /

  Guest Post by Susan Arledge, CEO Arledge Partners Real Estate Group Last week, an interesting report emerged from Advertising Age Magazine called “Put Your Money on Texas.” It showed that Texas is now home to 3.6 million millennials—a 14 percent increase from 2000 to 2010. The 24- to 35-year-old age group “is critical to the…

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