Candy Evans

What In The World Are They Building at 3809 Mockingbird?

By Candy Evans | May 20, 2011 |

Recall when I first saw this very interesting home going up over on Mockingbird a few months ago? Owned by a Lim Lin of Murphy, Texas. Today Merritt Patterson had something up about it in the Park Cities People Blog, and what concerns me is there doesn’t seem to be a lot of progress made…

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Homes, Now Beds: Guy Sells Mattress on CraigsList for One Million, NOT a Duxiana!

By Candy Evans | May 20, 2011 | Comments Off on Homes, Now Beds: Guy Sells Mattress on CraigsList for One Million, NOT a Duxiana!

I love Curbed, who tells us “there is no end to the stream of earnest folks trying to pimp out their crappy old stuff on Craigslist. Now there’s a person—a man, we’re assuming from the Craigslist post—who’s trying to sell off a queen-sized Serta Perfect Sleeper mattress for $1M.“ Is this nuts? Just very creative.…

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Don’t Get Screwed on Your Next Real Estate Deal: Clay Stapp & Co Celebrates, Really Really Celebrates Dallas Real Estate

By Candy Evans | May 20, 2011 |

This is the new breed of tech savvy Realtor — excuse me, iRealtor — and I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: the Clay Stapp style is shaking things up in this town. They do contracts on ipads. They promote properties elusively on the web, they twitter, tweet, blog, Facebook, Four-Square, Digg, AIM, everything.…

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Wonder Why Buyers Prefer the Burbs? Dallas Real Estate & DISD Schools

By Candy Evans | May 20, 2011 |

The Dallas Observer reports that in 14 days, our DISD School Superintendent Michael Hinojosa will be moving to Atlanta’s Cobb County to take over as school superintendent. This comes after last fall when he was courted by Las Vegas, turned them down, promised Dallas he would cast his eyes no more and stay put. Then…

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Dallas Real Estate News You Can Use: Realtor/Broker Brad Holden Has a Secret Sauce for Those 600 FICA Scores

By Candy Evans | May 19, 2011 |

Note: Our soon-to-be launched local Real Estate blog, CandysDirt.com, will feature regular profiles of top agents and brokers across North Dallas as well as contributions for real on-the-ground (dirt!) perspectives. But we just couldn’t wait to let the cat out of the bag: Brad Holden is a Dallas-area broker/realtor who has been active in Texas…

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$27 Million Per Household: Top 100th of 1% of Rich Americans Means More Big Real Estate Deals

By Candy Evans | May 19, 2011 | Comments Off on $27 Million Per Household: Top 100th of 1% of Rich Americans Means More Big Real Estate Deals

More proof that the rich are getting richer, and the American middle class is diminishing: according to Mother Jones Magazine, the top 100th of 1% of the wealthiest Americans, now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90% of the US population is $31,244. The median net worth…

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