North Texas

DFW Home Sales Up 20% From a Year Ago: Glory Halleluja Good Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / March 9, 2012 /

The North Texas real estate market is showing signs that it is getting stronger. Today everyone is reporting the good news, Steve Brown at The Dallas Morning News, and Sandra Baker at the Fort Worth Star Telegram: pre-owned home sales in North Texas soared in February — up 27 percent from a year ago. That’s the biggest rise in six months. And last month’s increase was one of the largest gains the local housing market has seen in the last seven years. Meantime, the number of pending home purchases is increasing even faster: up a whopping 35 percent jump from a year ago.

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Breaking Dallas Real Estate News: Champ D’Or Going to Real Estate Auction March 30

By Candy Evans / February 22, 2012 /

I have been sitting (or rather, skiing) on this news for about a week now, verifying. Listing agent Joan Eleazer with Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s has confirmed that Champ D’Or, the 48,000 square foot Turbeville Road mansion up in Hickory Creek, near Denton, French baroque castle meets Plano McMansion dream chateau, clearly the most outrageous home in Dallas, or rather, North…

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