Candy Evans
In case you have not noticed it, interior design seems to be awfully sleepy these days. Robb & Stucky is in Chapter 11. The “biggest recession since the Great Depression” killed off at least a dozen shelter magazines, the survivors suffering along on rations of 30 percent fewer advertising pages these last three years, according…
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543,000 vacation homes were sold in 2010, ten less than in 2009. 867,000 investment homes were sold in 2010 940,000 investment homes were sold in 2009 Only 25 percent of vacation home buyers plan to rent them. Only 20 percent of investment buyers plan to use their second homes themselves. The median price of a…
Read MoreI was glued to the tube Sunday night watching Scott Pelley, who once worked at WFAA-TV in Dallas, reveal something so awful I still cannot believe it. We all know how Wall Street cut corners when it created Credit Default Swaps, those mortgage-backed investments that some bet for, some bet against, AIG “insured” and which…
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The New York Times ran this wonderful interview with former First Lady Laura Bush on April 1, I hope the link to the slide show works — never know with the pay walls these days. In the interview, she says she didn’t know she was stressed until they moved back home, Barney and Miss Beazely…
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We all know that, when it comes to marketing, the world has changed. And when it comes to marketing real estate, we may as well be on a different planet. No longer are cute cards and glossy brochures and, some might add, print advertising in pretty magazines and newspapers, enough. You’ve got to go viral,…
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A reader writes: “What is your professional opinion of having a washer dryer in a master suite closet? I have had people either love it or hate it, so I had my architect draw up a separate utility room that would be accessible from the kitchen in my home at Westlake. I also have a…
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