Residential Real Estate

Eureka! The DBJ's Candace Carlisle Has Discovered Something: Dallas Folks are Selling Multi Million Dollar Homes Outside of the MLS

By Candy Evans / October 28, 2013 /

I don’t know if you get the Dallas Business Journal or not, but as of late (like ever since I started this blog,) they have been tinkering with residential real estate. Tinkering I say because like most media outlets, the poor journalists have to cover about five different subject areas and mop the bathrooms after…

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Prudential Infographic Predicts Optimistic Market, Focuses on Millennials as New Crop of 1st-Time Homebuyers

By Joanna England / August 30, 2013 /

Still not getting the wave of real estate optimism that has been heading to pretty much every shore in the U.S.? Well, Prudential’s Q2 outlook says that if your boat hasn’t been lifted from the rising tide of home prices, then it should as Millennials embark on the American dream of first-time homeownership. There is,…

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A Major Name in Dallas Real Estate Has Left Us: Vance C. Miller, R.I.P.

By Candy Evans / February 24, 2013 /

Local real estate mogul,  major Republican donor and Dallas philanthropist Vance C. Miller died early Saturday morning after suffering a heart attack at the age of 79. I had just seen his lovely wife, Tincy, at a luncheon Thursday at the 11th Annual Virginia Chandler Dykes Leadership Award where I was the guest of Kyle Crews…

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The CandysDirt Story: How I Got to be So (Dang) Real Estate Obsessed!

By Candy Evans / May 7, 2012 /

Have I ever told you my story, why I am so obsessed with real estate and why I blog? It goes like this: I was a journalist, a magazine journalist, who covered real estate as a journalistic beat, then got hooked. I realized that blogging about homes and featuring them on the web is really…

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Market Report: Dallas Residential Real Estate Market Hits Rock Bottom, And There’s Nowhere to go But up

By Joanna England / April 3, 2012 /

So, we have good news and bad news. Which do you want first?

Well, the good news is that, after a relatively mild recession, the Dallas-area residential real estate market is poised for an uptick, propelled by job growth, a vigorous banking sector, and more people with a few bucks to spare, according to a report from LocalMarketMonitor.com.

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