Dallas Real Estate News
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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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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Dallas Fed president and CEO Richard Fisher told the Dallas Real Estate Council this morning the usual rah rah Texas stuff: Texans are uniquely qualified to turn the economy around and get a grip on the nation’s $14.2 trillion debt. Lower unemployment here. We built and can continue the greatest job-creating machine in the world,…
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Starting today, you might see more mortgage brokers hitting the bars or unemployment lines. April 1, that’s today, marks the day the rules change on how mortgage brokers earn their pay. Old way: mortgage brokers get discounted loans from big banks and they offer them to consumers. They charge a fee, which comes as a…
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I cannot tell you how many times I have been in the (former) CompUSA store on the east side of the Dallas North Tollway between Belt Line Road and Arapaho Road in (what some call) far North Dallas. Cables, computers, you name it, I’ve been there to buy it. And when that building vacated several…
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All the second homes in Destin, Port Aransas or Pebble Beach could not pull me away from next Saturday’s Park Cities Historic and Preservation Society‘s Spring home tour. That’s April 2, 2011, from 10 am – 4 pm. The owners of six gloriously historic and architecturally significant Park Cities homes will toss open their doors…
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