Troy Aikman’s House Listed Today for $27.5 Million: Dallas Celebrity Real Estate News

By Candy Evans | May 20, 2011 |

Update: While Troy’s house was initially listed for $27.5 million, on Monday May 23rd the price was changed in MLS to $24 million, as we have explained in subsequent stories. We all wondered when it would happen, and today’s the day. Allie Beth Allman just inked the listing for Troy Aikman’s 10,520 square feet on…

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Appraisal District Says Dallas County Property Values Down, Not As Low as Last Year’s Slide

By Candy Evans | May 20, 2011 | Comments Off on Appraisal District Says Dallas County Property Values Down, Not As Low as Last Year’s Slide

The Dallas Morning News reports that thus far, the Dallas Central Appraisal District says property values overall are down about 3.5 percent this year… “…not as bad a slide as last year and a possible sign that the market may be on the upswing, according to figures released Friday.” Of course, as property owners come…

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What In The World Are They Building at 3809 Mockingbird?

By Candy Evans | May 20, 2011 |

Recall when I first saw this very interesting home going up over on Mockingbird a few months ago? Owned by a Lim Lin of Murphy, Texas. Today Merritt Patterson had something up about it in the Park Cities People Blog, and what concerns me is there doesn’t seem to be a lot of progress made…

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Homes, Now Beds: Guy Sells Mattress on CraigsList for One Million, NOT a Duxiana!

By Candy Evans | May 20, 2011 | Comments Off on Homes, Now Beds: Guy Sells Mattress on CraigsList for One Million, NOT a Duxiana!

I love Curbed, who tells us “there is no end to the stream of earnest folks trying to pimp out their crappy old stuff on Craigslist. Now there’s a person—a man, we’re assuming from the Craigslist post—who’s trying to sell off a queen-sized Serta Perfect Sleeper mattress for $1M.“ Is this nuts? Just very creative.…

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Don’t Get Screwed on Your Next Real Estate Deal: Clay Stapp & Co Celebrates, Really Really Celebrates Dallas Real Estate

By Candy Evans | May 20, 2011 |

This is the new breed of tech savvy Realtor — excuse me, iRealtor — and I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: the Clay Stapp style is shaking things up in this town. They do contracts on ipads. They promote properties elusively on the web, they twitter, tweet, blog, Facebook, Four-Square, Digg, AIM, everything.…

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Wonder Why Buyers Prefer the Burbs? Dallas Real Estate & DISD Schools

By Candy Evans | May 20, 2011 |

The Dallas Observer reports that in 14 days, our DISD School Superintendent Michael Hinojosa will be moving to Atlanta’s Cobb County to take over as school superintendent. This comes after last fall when he was courted by Las Vegas, turned them down, promised Dallas he would cast his eyes no more and stay put. Then…

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