Real Estate

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 oneĀ 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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Five Percent of the Nation’s Housing Units Qualify as Second Homes. But Where The Hec Are They?

By Candy Evans | August 29, 2011 |

VERY interesting story here from the National Association of Home Builders that tells us where most of the second homes in the United States are located. There are 6.9 million housing units that qualify as second homes — that’s about 5% of all the U.S. housing units. There are 26 counties where at least HALF…

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Great Open House Candy in Dallas: Don’t Be Koi About These Homes

By Candy Evans | August 28, 2011 | Comments Off on Great Open House Candy in Dallas: Don’t Be Koi About These Homes

Some really great open houses await you in Bluffview and Lakewood… details over on CandysDirt.com.

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The Dallas Real Estate Market, Like It’s Very Hot People, Is Hanging in There

By Candy Evans | August 9, 2011 | Comments Off on The Dallas Real Estate Market, Like It’s Very Hot People, Is Hanging in There

The full story over on CandysDirt — local Dallas real estate news.

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Friday Ranch Porn: Too Hot To Live In Dallas, Get Thee To A Ranch STAT

By Candy Evans | August 5, 2011 |

I think we can honestly survive 100 degree plus temps better on a ranch. Less concrete, more trees and shade. I love the ranch life and in my perfect world I’d have a ranch a few hundred miles away from Dallas, our beach house in Maine, my beach condo in Florida on the Gulf coast,…

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The Temp in Hayden, Idaho is 63 Degrees With a High of 80: Second Home Nirvana

By Candy Evans | August 4, 2011 | Comments Off on The Temp in Hayden, Idaho is 63 Degrees With a High of 80: Second Home Nirvana

Now here’s a home to cool you off. You’ll be wearing a sweater up here tonight and totally chilling on beautiful, crystal clear Lake Hayden. (You are about 45 miles east of Spokane, but who cares?) This amazing home hasĀ 142′ of deepwater frontage on one of the largest lots in an area known as English…

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