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Attention Dallas Real Estate Voyeurs: Great Weekend Open Houses

By Candy Evans | June 11, 2011 | Comments Off on Attention Dallas Real Estate Voyeurs: Great Weekend Open Houses

Once CandysDirt.com is up and running, we plan a regular sweet treat/tweet for you every Friday: sneak peaks at the best open houses in town. Check out some of the best House Candy in town: Open 3 to 5 pm this Sunday: 4686 Meadowood, listed by Becky Frey, Briggs Freeman Sothebys. If you don’t know this…

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MAVS MAVS MAVS and Their HOUSES!!!! Dallas Real Estate Celebrity News

By Candy Evans | June 10, 2011 | Comments Off on MAVS MAVS MAVS and Their HOUSES!!!! Dallas Real Estate Celebrity News

Maves rule! Best team in the country, no the world. Best of all, the players live in Dallas when off the court and give us plenty of celebrity House Porn to enjoy. We all know Dirk Nowitski’s house, not too far from the dual-mansion spread of Dr. Richard Malouf over there on Strait Lane.  I’ve written about…

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Best Dallas Real Estate Perk in Town: Greg Brady’s Penthouse Now Available for $7.5, Quite Possibly the Most Gorgeous Penthouse Ever

By Candy Evans | June 9, 2011 |

Oh. My. God. I have been to heaven and back. I’m talking about unit 3001 at the tip top of the Azure, a two-story, 5025 square foot custom (I mean, honey, custom) penthouse right up there next to Deion Sanders that makes his unit next door, which is leased out to a physician, by the…

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A Third Home for $500: The Absolute Truth About Vacation Home Real Estate Ownership 2011

By Candy Evans | June 9, 2011 |

“I need a second home like I need a colonoscopy.” Spent an hour on the phone with Wade Shealy, who is probably the most seasoned and knowledgeable man in the country when it comes to second home real estate, certainly the most honest. Wade is the founder of 3RD HOME, a web site for second home owners…

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Your Medicaid Dollars at Work on Strait Lane, Continued: Is Texas Hedge Fund Heaven?

By Candy Evans | June 9, 2011 |

Remember how I told you about the Malouf’s amazing real estate acquisitions on Strait Lane? Now, I’m not judging here. For all we know, Dr. and Mrs. Malouf — he’s a dentist — could have inherited a bucketload of money or just belong to the Lucky Sperm Club. Well, maybe. Or not. Wednesday night WFAA’s…

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Dallas Area AVERAGE Home Prices Up, Purchases Down: Not Quite the Doom & Gloom Show!

By Candy Evans | June 9, 2011 |

Read Steve Brown and you might say what someone from last month’s ULI Conference told me they felt like doing after the opening session: committing suicide. Steve says north Texas pre-owned home purchases were down 15 percent in May — the 12th consecutive month of declines, a solid year of flushing. Real estate agents last…

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