Texas

Your Vacation Home… and Divorce

By Candy Evans / September 30, 2012 /

I don’t know how many divorcing couples own vacation homes. But I have a feeling it’s not a small number. After all, the latest numbers from the National Association of Realtors show that buyers purchased 502,000 vacation homes last year, an increase of 7 percent from the year before. And I have a theory, actually,…

Nebraska Furniture Mart To Build Largest Home Everything Store in U.S. in North Texas… With a Background Story that Sounds a Lot Like Ebby Halliday

By Candy Evans / September 25, 2012 /

This is Bob Batt, the Executive Vice President of the Nebraska Furniture Mart which broke ground on the largest home furnishings store not just in Texas but the USA — and probably, the world — this morning in The Colony, along the southern border of State Highway 121. The store won’t be selling us any…

State of the State of the DFW Real Estate Market

By Candy Evans / September 14, 2012 /

We have had a steady stream of positive real estate news reports from everywhere the last couple weeks. And despite our fling with West Nile, Dallas is like the shinest Real Estate ornament in the box! The latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show Dallas as the only Texas city on the index showing a 3.68…

Sliders of Blue: Would You Put a Private Water Park in Your Backyard?

By Candy Evans / August 21, 2012 /

Is this the private Dallas water park that braces built? And would you even consider putting in a water park in a private home? Texas Drills Down on Medicaid Dental Fraud” (sub. rec.) is a headline in today’s Wall Street Journal. What do they mean by that? Possibly the business practices of people like Richard Malouf who is…

Scurry County Ranch is an Outdoorsman’s Paradise: Dove, Deer, and Fishing on 23,000 Pristine Acres

By Joanna England / July 19, 2012 /

More than 95 percent of Texas is privately owned, and more than 20,000 acres are lost each year to poorly planned development, says the Texas Land Conservancy. Invasive species, overgrowth, and over grazing can turn native prairies into barren wastelands.

With that in mind, you can see why it’s imperative that ranch owners are good stewards of the land. It appears that the owners of Covered S Ranch have taken that duty to heart.