real estate

Real Estate Outlook 2012 and Beyond: Consumers Want Data, or Do They?

By Candy Evans / January 18, 2012 /

Last week was Inman’s Real Estate Connect, the famous conference where real estate meets technology. I go annually to get a look ahead at both tech and marketing innovation coming down the pike, for Dallas consumers and real estate agents. Agents, of course, lap this conference up like a kitten. But consumers, too, can glean a…

Maybe Dallas Will Get a St. Regis Hotel After All…

By Candy Evans / January 12, 2012 /

Turtle Creek Village has new owners who have purchased the property out of debt. Those new owners would be Dallas-based Lone Star Fund, a  local investment fund that has the Midas touch when it comes to buying real estate for pennies on the dollar. Last August, while we were cooking, Lone Star Funds snapped up…

Second Home Madness: Did Real Estate Wreak Havoc on the Marriage of Deion and Pilar Sanders? Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / December 19, 2011 /

This is the $2 million house in Heath, Texas that Pilar Sanders wanted Deion to buy her about a month ago. Her and her mother, alone. It’s 11,000 square feet, has two four-car garages to hold the Bentley’s on either side of the house, two master suites designed after the suites at Caesar’s Palace in Vegas,…

Exclusive: Deion Told Pilar No! Did Real Estate Contribute to the Demise of Deion and Pilar Sanders’ Marriage?

By Candy Evans / December 18, 2011 /

This is the $2 million house in Heath, Texas that Pilar Sanders wanted Deion to buy her about a month ago. It’s 11,000 square feet, has two four-car garages to hold the Bentley’s on either side of the house, two master suites designed after the suites at Caesar’s Palace in Vegas, four bedrooms and four and a half baths. But, according to my very close sources, Deion refused to give her the money to buy the $2 million home in the prestigious Hills of Buffalo Creek even though it has 100% owner financing. Pilar loved everything about the one story home, the fact that three movies had been shot there, and was crazy about the TV’s in the living room. She saw the “owner financing” sign in the front yard and called stat. But Deion said “no.”

Remember Prudential Real Estate? Yup, Another Real Estate Aquisition

By Candy Evans / December 15, 2011 /

Someone e-mailed me a week or so ago and asked if Prudential Real Estate had sold out. The answer is yes, it did. Prudential was acquired by Brookfield Residential Property Services — the Canadian-based franchisor that provides services in the U.S. under the Real Living brand —  for a cool $110 million. Word is business…