Candy Evans
I’m not going to say Dallas Real Estate is a hoppin’, but we are really hanging in there. Really. As I mentioned yesterday, I was in Southlake on Saturday, and I went to that adorable Southlake Town Center. Met a cute couple who were building a home in Colleyville because they had just sold their…
Read MoreUpdate to the mortgage story. As I said earlier, mortgage broker Ron Schulz told me over the weekend that the biggest hurdle in mortgage financing now is finding mortgage loans for the self-employed. Those deals are near impossible because most self-employed work off K-1 income to control/limit taxes so when they go to get a…
Read MoreI was in Southlake over the weekend, and on radio 1160 am with renown mortgage broker Ron Schultz. He said what I’ve written now about a hundred times: there are loans out there for folks with good credit scores and W-2s. The biggest problem is finding mortgage loans for the self-employed. Those deals are near…
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You do recall the Residences at Palomar, that handsome high rise at the corner of Mockingbird and Central attached to the Hotel Palomar that broke ground in 2005 and has been, shall we say, somewhat market challenged? Here’s what we were told back in the day: Twenty-five percent of the units were sold within the…
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By now we know that William and Kate are not castle shopping because they have a ready-made love nest to move into: Clarence House. According to Curbed, it’s worth $76.68 million and 343 times the cost of the average newlywed starter home. Eventually, he’ll move Kate into Buckingham Palace, worth $1.6 billion and the world’s…
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Ask Candy – a reader writes: My wife and I are not getting along, but we do not want to get a divorce for financial and religious reasons. I have enough cash for a down payment and was approved for a mortgage to buy a small house from foreclosure here in Dallas. But get this: …
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