Dallas Real Estate News

Best Dallas Real Estate Perk in Town: Greg Brady’s Penthouse Now Available for $7.5, Quite Possibly the Most Gorgeous Penthouse Ever

By Candy Evans | June 9, 2011 |

Oh. My. God. I have been to heaven and back. I’m talking about unit 3001 at the tip top of the Azure, a two-story, 5025 square foot custom (I mean, honey, custom) penthouse right up there next to Deion Sanders that makes his unit next door, which is leased out to a physician, by the…

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Your Medicaid Dollars at Work on Strait Lane, Continued: Is Texas Hedge Fund Heaven?

By Candy Evans | June 9, 2011 |

Remember how I told you about the Malouf’s amazing real estate acquisitions on Strait Lane? Now, I’m not judging here. For all we know, Dr. and Mrs. Malouf — he’s a dentist — could have inherited a bucketload of money or just belong to the Lucky Sperm Club. Well, maybe. Or not. Wednesday night WFAA’s…

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Dallas Area AVERAGE Home Prices Up, Purchases Down: Not Quite the Doom & Gloom Show!

By Candy Evans | June 9, 2011 |

Read Steve Brown and you might say what someone from last month’s ULI Conference told me they felt like doing after the opening session: committing suicide. Steve says north Texas pre-owned home purchases were down 15 percent in May — the 12th consecutive month of declines, a solid year of flushing. Real estate agents last…

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How to Jazz Up Your Next Open House: Buy a Triceratops?

By Candy Evans | June 8, 2011 |

I thought it was bad when I had a shrunken head in my house. But there’s probably one thing worse than a shrunken head in your house: the 21-foot-long boney remains of a flesh-eating dinosaur. On Sunday, Heritage Auction Gallery –third largest auction house in the country and rising — is offering what is probably…

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Your Medicaid Tax Dollars at Work Over on Strait Lane? Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans | June 7, 2011 |

I’m not going to do too much work here, going to defer to Byron Harris over at WFAA-TV Channel 8 to do most of the heavy lifting. Keep your eyes peeled to him for a report coming up involving these properties. My eyes are permanently peeled to Dallas real estate. In March, I was alerted…

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States With the Most Rooms Per Home: Everything’s Bigger in Texas and UTAH?

By Candy Evans | June 5, 2011 |

Yes, Utah, the Mormon state, home of multiple wives and big families — kidding. (Sort of.) According to recent information released by the U.S. Census Bureau, as reported by U-Haul, Utah properties have the most rooms per home, on average, followed by Texas. The Census Bureau surveyed 915 metropolitan and micropolitan areas and found out…

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