Candy Evans

Ask Candy: Need An Architect for Dallas Tudor Revival

By Candy Evans | February 18, 2011 |

A reader writes: We are renovating and building up on our 1935 Tudor Rival (or whatever they are called) house in HP.  I was wondering if you have a short list of architects that you would recommend.  We spoke with David Oswalt this week who had worked with a neighbor, who really liked him.  Any…

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Where to Buy Investment Real Estate Property: Fort Worth, Texas

By Candy Evans | February 18, 2011 |

If you are going to buy investment property, you want a place where your home/land etc. is going to appreciate, right? And we all know the messages received across most of the country is fat chance, bubba. Sure, real estate in (drowning) Phoenix and Vegas is so cheap you can buy a home once listed…

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Trouble Selling That Second Home? Don’t Agonize, Fractionalize

By Candy Evans | February 18, 2011 | Comments Off on Trouble Selling That Second Home? Don’t Agonize, Fractionalize

A Muksego, Wisconson couple fed up with the housing market are now trying to sell their vacation home north of Chicago by fractionalizing it. The 1,800-square-foot ranch which they bought in 1999 is a 1950’s era on a three-acre island in Little Muskego Lake, pictured here. Now they want the cash out for another project so instead of…

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How To Market Homes for Sale: Bookmark Borders Books

By Candy Evans | February 17, 2011 |

I want you to read this story by my colleague Eileen Gunn, about how developers and Realtors across the nation are using very creative means to market homes — marketing techniques way beyond the traditional. By traditional, I mean radio and print advertising, direct mail, techniques most agents have been telling me for years are…

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Troy Aikman Trying to Sell The Family Home on Highland Drive?

By Candy Evans | February 17, 2011 |

It is not in MLS, but I’ve heard that Troy is floating the idea of selling the family homestead on Highland Drive now that Rhonda has moved out and up to Preston Hollow. And lest you think he’s smoking something other than brisket on the patio in this market, let me tell you there have…

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A Second Home Story With a Very Happy Ending

By Candy Evans | February 17, 2011 |

Pretend this is still Valentines Day, k? Do you recall the story of 4850 Preston Road? Beautiful home in the PRIMO primo heart of Dallas over there snuggled next to the Muses and Crows, built by Mickey Munir and snapped up first time by James Beckett III. He bought her the house in 2008 for…

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