Texas real estate news

From Facebook: What Do You Do With an Uncooperative Seller?

By Bethany Erickson / October 20, 2018 /
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This week’s Friday Question had its genesis in a conundrum we faced here at CandysDirt — we found a local listing that was quite well, not conducive to good marketing of a home, to put it delicately. At the time, we talked amongst ourselves about why the photos in the listing may have looked the…

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Renovated Modern Contemporary Benefits From Acclaimed Mark Ashby Touch

By Bethany Erickson / October 20, 2018 /
Mark Ashby

Austin-based designer Mark Ashby has a reputation for creating wow-worthy interiors, whether he’s working on a Montana ranch or a sleek, modern city loft. And our Saturday Seven Hundred this week is a home that definitely got the benefit of that impeccable eye. Realtor and designer Paige Poupart told us that her initial walkthrough of…

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Dallas ISD Trustees Make Unusual Move to Reassure TRE Voters

By Bethany Erickson / October 20, 2018 /
TRE

In a bid to reassure voters, Dallas ISD trustees took the unusual move adopting a resolution that pledges to spend the first projected surplus a tax ratification election, or TRE , could produce on specific initiatives, including one that strategically increases employee salaries. But the move was not without a lot of debate.   Trustee…

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Will the Death of a US Journalist in Saudi Arabia Crunch Cash Flow to Two VC-Backed Dallas RE Firms?

By Candy Evans / October 19, 2018 /

Money is a funny thing. You never know where it has been and whose hands have touched it. This week the SoftBank Vision Fund, $93 billion strong and investing heavily in local real estate start-ups Compass and OpenDoor,  has come under the microscope because Saudi Arabia is a major investor in the fund. And the…

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Hit These Gorgeous Lake Highlands Open Houses This Weekend

By Bethany Erickson / October 18, 2018 /
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Lake Highlands is sought after — that’s no revelation. So when we found three homes in three different price points that all have open houses this week, we knew we hit the jackpot for our CandysDirt.com Open Houses of the Week. This week, our houses range in price from $489,000 to $1.175 million. Which ones…

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