As I think I’ve made clear, I am tired of talk that luxury is dead. This happens, you see, every single time we have an economic downturn. Luxury items get blamed for the shenanigans of the few who screwed it up for all of us, as they sail on down to South America, chanting, let…
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God, I wish I could say yes, but more likely, just maybe. Or how about, fat chance? I checked with my wonderful CPA firm, Judd, Thomas Smith & Company, who says you may still deduct mortgage interest on a second home and also property taxes but watch it: that alternative minimum tax, a complicated Congressional…
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Dear Candy: My Realtor is not advertising my home properly, I think. She is refusing to put an ad in the local newspaper and magazines showing it off. She tells me this no longer works, but rather has the home listed on her website. How can a consumer know that an agent is doing every…
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I have always wanted to see the inside of John Wiley Price’s Dallas real estate, his house that is, because when you get inside someone’s real estate acquisitions you get inside them. Now I have a picture, a mental picture, at least. Scott Parks at the Dallas Morning News was lucky enough to get a…
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We’ve talked about Val Kilmer’s Pecos River Ranch, the unbelievable beauty of the property about 22 miles east of Santa Fe, most recently listed for $18.5 million but originally on the market in 2009 for $33 million. Talk about lowering the price! The ranch is so very special because it has roughly six miles of…
Read MoreThis is one of those little technical nuggets that illustrates how Washington is stealthily destroying the housing market. The feds are scratching their heads, trying to come up with a way to keep banks from jacking around with mortgages and selling bad loans off in tranches as securities, and that’s a good thing. One of…
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