Dallas Real Estate News

Does The Star’s Bankruptcy Mean Tom Hicks is Downsizing and Tom Gaglardi is Moving to Dallas?

By Candy Evans | September 16, 2011 | Comments Off on Does The Star’s Bankruptcy Mean Tom Hicks is Downsizing and Tom Gaglardi is Moving to Dallas?

Update: It seems all these sports teams buying, selling and going belly-up are very good for the local real estate market. Remember, it brought Chuck Greenberg to Vaquero! This post is also on CandysDirt.com. So, the Dallas Stars have filed a bankruptcy package that will ease them out of some debt and hopefully smooth the…

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House Candy: A Kim Schlegel Whitman Home Reduced For Sale in Dallas

By Candy Evans | September 7, 2011 | Comments Off on House Candy: A Kim Schlegel Whitman Home Reduced For Sale in Dallas

Details over on CandysDirt.com.

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Is Rick Perry’s Presidential Campaign Boosting the Texas Housing Market?

By Candy Evans | September 2, 2011 |

We talked about this yesterday over at NBC Nonstop Nightly with Jane McGarry. In a meeting with a major North Texas developer this week, he said to me: “I do not like Rick Perry all that much, and I do not think he is very smart. However, he is sending out a great message about Texas…

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Best Home Squatter Story Ever: The Man Who Paid $16 Bucks for a $330,000 Texas House

By Candy Evans | September 1, 2011 | Comments Off on Best Home Squatter Story Ever: The Man Who Paid $16 Bucks for a $330,000 Texas House

I’ve got this over on CandysDirt.com, but will serve it up for you right here, too. This is just too important a story for anyone who’s obsessed with real estate. The Flower Mound house is great, don’t get me wrong, but when I squat, it’s going to be Pebble Beach

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Winter Spring Summer and Fall, All You Have To Do is Call — Carole King’s Idaho Ranch Now a Blue Light Special

By Candy Evans | August 30, 2011 |

The price has been slashed from $16 million to just $11.5 for this amazing ranch spread one hour and a half north of the sleepy Ketchum/Sun Valley ski community of Hemingway fame. Located in the tiny town of Stanley, Idaho, and how cute is that name? (Not to be Debbie Downer, but Hemingway did commit suicide…

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Second Home Sleepytime: Don’t Buy a Gross Used Mattress for Your Vacation Home

By Candy Evans | August 24, 2011 |

I published this story over on CandysDirt.com, because someone in Dallas was trying to sell a used mattress on Craig’s list with a “heart-shaped placenta stain”, and spinning it as a plus. I mean, with that kind of creativity, this guy or gal ought to go work on the federal deficit. Anyhow, I started thinking…

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