Wall Street Journal

Deion Sanders Takes $21 Million, 29,000 Square Foot Mansion OFF Market

By Candy Evans / August 7, 2011 /

Guess he’s not feeling real bullish about the market these days. Deion Sanders has snapped his whopping 29,000-square-foot home way north of Dallas off the market. You know the one — drive due north on Preston Road to Prosper, and there it sits on 109 acres. He even has his own football field.  Sanders has had the…

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Dallas Real Estate News: Perceived Thrift Is The Newest Trend in Real Estate

By Candy Evans / July 3, 2011 /

Remember when, right after Lehman Brothers tanked and the market crashed in fall of 2008, how plain brown shopping bags were the rage? Conspicuous consumption was out, and the wealthy did not want anyone to know that they were blowing $90,000 a month on revolving credit at luxury stores when so many people were out of work. (My friends who work at…

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Dallas Real Estate News: Fiscus Property Went Under Contract One Day After Listing

By Candy Evans / May 9, 2011 /

I’ll be honest: I was reading the doom& gloom real estate report in the Wall Street Journal last night, and gearing up to post something for you because, honestly, I always want to tell you the truth about the market. I know financing is 100% of our problem with the double dip — oh and…

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Val Kilmer’s Pecos River Ranch is Under Contract… or Is It?

By Candy Evans / April 16, 2011 /

We’ve talked about Val Kilmer’s Pecos River Ranch, the unbelievable beauty of the property about 22 miles east of Santa Fe, most recently listed for $18.5 million but originally on the market in 2009 for $33 million. Talk about lowering the price! The ranch is so very special because it has roughly six miles of…

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Wonder How The Mayor of Monterrey, Mexico is Doing in North Texas

By Candy Evans / February 22, 2011 /

Remember when the Wall Street Journal told us crime was so bad in Mexico that even the Mayor of Monterrey, Fernando Larrazabal had fled and re-located his family to the Dallas area? (I found out it was to Las Colinas, and y’all got mad at me. I also found out on a visit to La…

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