Dallas Real Estate News: 6 Out of 10 Buyers Put Less Than 20% Down When Buying a Home

By Candy Evans | April 15, 2011 |

This 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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Birkins, Babes, and $80,000 Bags: The Dave Perry-Miller Team Goes Croc Hunting

By Candy Evans | April 15, 2011 |

If the streets of Dallas seemed a bit hushed yesterday afternoon, that’s because the Dave Perry-Miller group — that’s Ebby’s high-end luxury real estate division — was hanging down at Heritage Auction Gallery to get first dibs on some rare, exclusive hand-bags that are going off to be auctioned in New York City next month.…

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Real Estate Sleep Overs: Only When You Sign Up

By Candy Evans | April 15, 2011 | Comments Off on Real Estate Sleep Overs: Only When You Sign Up

Who’s ready for some sun? Need a beach fix before Easter? I am doing some serious arm-twisting to get you free sleep-overs at a handful of glorious second home properties but they are ONLY available to those wise folks who subscribe! I mean, they are sitting there empty, so why not have some company, right?…

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Foreclosures Down Across the Nation, Too, But it Still Is Not Miller Time

By Candy Evans | April 15, 2011 | Comments Off on Foreclosures Down Across the Nation, Too, But it Still Is Not Miller Time

My colleagues over at AOL say we are not alone with our positive foreclosure numbers, as filings across the country have dropped, though Texas still got lumped in with the new bad boys of real estate: Nevada, Illinois, Ohio, Colorado, Florida. (Why weren’t California and Arizona on that list?) But the story is not about…

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Good Dallas Real Estate News: Dallas Fort Worth Residential Foreclosure Postings Drop to 40 Month Low!

By Candy Evans | April 15, 2011 | Comments Off on Good Dallas Real Estate News: Dallas Fort Worth Residential Foreclosure Postings Drop to 40 Month Low!

For the first time in more than THREE YEARS, foreclosures are diminishing in Dallas Fort Worth. George Roddy Sr. of Foreclosure Listing Service, Inc. reports some good news preceding the spring market: Dallas Fort Worth residential foreclosure postings have dropped to a 40-month low. Roddy says that for the upcoming auctions on May 3, only…

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Not On The Market! Why Send Your Kid to Harvard When You Can Just Live There?

By Candy Evans | April 14, 2011 | Comments Off on Not On The Market! Why Send Your Kid to Harvard When You Can Just Live There?

This home in not yet in the MLS: 3708 Harvard, going on for $5.3 million. I love the back yard with the mini plunge pool and water features. Five bedrooms, seven and a half baths, 3 car garage, 3 totalĀ  living areas, 3 offices, 7375 sq. ft. on a 75 by 150 foot lot, built…

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