Dallas Real Estate News

Not On The Market! Why Send Your Kid to Harvard When You Can Just Live There?

By Candy Evans | April 14, 2011 | Comments Off on Not On The Market! Why Send Your Kid to Harvard When You Can Just Live There?

This home in not yet in the MLS: 3708 Harvard, going on for $5.3 million. I love the back yard with the mini plunge pool and water features. Five bedrooms, seven and a half baths, 3 car garage, 3 totalĀ  living areas, 3 offices, 7375 sq. ft. on a 75 by 150 foot lot, built…

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Josh Hamilton: Resting Up Just Fine at Home in Vaquero, Achoo!

By Candy Evans | April 14, 2011 | Comments Off on Josh Hamilton: Resting Up Just Fine at Home in Vaquero, Achoo!

Never mind what former Rangers manager Bobby Valentine said last night on “ESPN’s Baseball Tonight”, that mumbo about Josh Hamilton’s past drug use will affect his ability to “cure” his broken shoulder. It’s April in Texas: I think it’s ALLERGIES that will inhibit his healing — look at all those pretty plants in the yard!

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Death of the Vanity Ad: Real Estate Take-Aways from Agent ReBoot: Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans | April 14, 2011 |

When you shop for a high-end car, do you pick the salesperson (and buy the car) because he or she had a vanity ad in some glossy magazine or on a billboard? Or do you buy because of the car and dealer? We have bought almost our all cars for years from Park Place because…

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Mexicans Work the Hardest — Harder, Even, Than Americans

By Candy Evans | April 14, 2011 | Comments Off on Mexicans Work the Hardest — Harder, Even, Than Americans

Tis true. A new study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), when comparingĀ  29 industrialized nations, found that people in our neighbor to the south, Mexico, work the most hours both paid and unpaid. Belgium came in with the least hours of work and earliest retirement, and France wasn’t far behind. The…

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SOS STAT: Desperate Builder Needs Park Cities Lot for Real Estate Tear Down

By Candy Evans | April 14, 2011 |

Is Dallas Real Estate hopping like it’s 2006? I have an SOS request from a reader who needs a lot in the Park Cities to build a home. They are willing to pay up to $600,000 for a nice lot — maybe more for a corner? (Maybe less for being near the Tollway?) If you…

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Grown Up Freebie Real Estate Sleepovers at Second Homes IF You Sign Up!

By Candy Evans | April 13, 2011 |

Click yourself on over to the right side of this blog and subscribe to SecondShelters.com by email. I’m working on what I call Grown-Up Sleepovers at select second home communities. (This time, you don’t have to sneak in the booze.) I’ve always had these wild ideas about marketing real estate and homes, which is why…

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