Dallas Real Estate News

This Home Looks Just Like the Home Alone House

By Candy Evans | May 7, 2011 |

2932 Stanford listed with Tom Hughes at Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s for $1,155,000. Whose house does this remind you of? Just needs black shutters!

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Richard and Nona Barrett Building Mega Mega Mega Manse in Preston Hollow

By Candy Evans | May 5, 2011 |

According to my good friend John Burgdorf at NorthTexasLuxury.com, this mammoth beast is under construction at 9807 Meadowbrook Drive in Old Preston Hollow. (As I told John, PH, not Park Cities. But when you live outside of Dallas, all our “communities” meld together.) Funny thing, I was at a party right next door to this…

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Who Says They Don’t Have Beautiful Homes in Plano?

By Candy Evans | May 5, 2011 | Comments Off on Who Says They Don’t Have Beautiful Homes in Plano?

Look at this! 6621 Muirfield Circle in Plano, only $690,000 for 4591 square feet on a one-half acre lot right on the Prestonwood Country Club golf course! Lewisville schools, two story atrium living area, granite floors, walls of glass overlooking the greens, custom kitchen — I’m not too crazy about that color of wood, are…

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Ask Candy: Is it OK to Shoot the Squirrels That Are Taking Over My Yard?

By Candy Evans | May 4, 2011 |

A reader with a home on the market is very frustrated with the proliferation of squirrels this spring in his far North Dallas neighborhood: Dear Candy: How do you handle squirrels when your home is on the market and they are everywhere? One almost jumped on a couple as they were leaving our home yesterday.…

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Osama’s Dead and Buried, but The Dallas County Real Estate Tax Doctor is IN

By Candy Evans | May 2, 2011 |

Meet Tiffany Hamil Mackey. She is a Dallas attorney who wants to get tough on taxes — property taxes, that is. Tiffany is a graduate of Southern Methodist University and received her Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Texas Wesleyan School of Law. She attended the University of Florida, one of the top three tax…

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Property Tax Appraisals In Your Mailbox but Never Fear: The Tax Doctor Is In!

By Candy Evans | April 30, 2011 |

May means great weather, less sneezing, and, in North Texas Real Estate parlance, time to grit our teeth over home appraisals. Property tax appraisals went out Friday, so this coming week we should be getting the hard, cold news about property taxes. Dallas rates have gone up. Property values have gone down. Will the Appraisal…

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