Hungry Dallas Realtors, Listen Up: Bluegreen is Better than In N Out Burgers

By Candy Evans | April 29, 2011 | Comments Off on Hungry Dallas Realtors, Listen Up: Bluegreen is Better than In N Out Burgers

Well, almost. Bluegreen Communities, a developer of premier, master-planned residential home communities, has launched a new program that pays real estate agents big buckeroos for referrals. Through the RealtorĀ® Referral program, participating real estate agents who refer buyers to a Bluegreen Communities property earn a full six percent of the resulting sale. Most of the…

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Jason Garrett & Fam Movin’ On Up to Maplewood? — Dallas Celebrity Real Estate News

By Candy Evans | April 28, 2011 |

Second Shelters has learned, but not confirmed, where the Garretts MIGHT be moving. Let’s put it this way: they apparently wants a home with four fireplaces. Recall you heard here first that Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett put his house on the market about two weeks ago with none other than agent to the…

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Dallas Real Estate News: Case Shiller Says the Sky is No Longer Falling. Well, Not in Dallas!

By Candy Evans | April 28, 2011 | Comments Off on Dallas Real Estate News: Case Shiller Says the Sky is No Longer Falling. Well, Not in Dallas!

I’m not going to say Dallas Real Estate is a hoppin’, but we are really hanging in there. Really. As I mentioned yesterday, I was in Southlake on Saturday, and I went to that adorable Southlake Town Center. Met a cute couple who were building a home in Colleyville because they had just sold their…

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Dallas Real Estate Financing: What Are We Going To Do About Mortgages for the Self-Employed?

By Candy Evans | April 28, 2011 |

Update to the mortgage story. As I said earlier, mortgage broker Ron Schulz told me over the weekend that the biggest hurdle in mortgage financing now is finding mortgage loans for the self-employed. Those deals are near impossible because most self-employed work off K-1 income to control/limit taxes so when they go to get a…

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Dallas Real Estate News: You Can Get a Mortgage if You Have a W-2

By Candy Evans | April 27, 2011 | Comments Off on Dallas Real Estate News: You Can Get a Mortgage if You Have a W-2

I was in Southlake over the weekend, and on radio 1160 am with renown mortgage broker Ron Schultz. He said what I’ve written now about a hundred times: there are loans out there for folks with good credit scores and W-2s. The biggest problem is finding mortgage loans for the self-employed. Those deals are near…

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Hot Dallas Real Estate News: Major Price Slashing — and Some Sales ! — at the Palomar

By Candy Evans | April 27, 2011 |

You do recall the Residences at Palomar, that handsome high rise at the corner of Mockingbird and Central attached to the Hotel Palomar that broke ground in 2005 and has been, shall we say, somewhat market challenged? Here’s what we were told back in the day: Twenty-five percent of the units were sold within the…

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