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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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Realtor.com released the top metro areas for real estate search — that is, the places where more people are looking to buy homes, and guess who made it big on the list? Dallas. Metro areas in the South and West dominated the list of the 10 most-searched real estate markets for the month of April,…
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I posted the homes of the top three mayoral candidates– apologies to Ed Okpa, because he is not in the top third, maybe next election — because I thought it would be fun to look at what their homes say about their persona. Then I discovered the “conditions”, or CDU of each candidate’s home —…
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I don’t think a Dallas Realtor has ever had a gown quite like this. The bride wore a dress designed specifically for her by bridal gown designer Monique Lhuillier in Los Angeles, and Kimberly Schlegel Whitman tells me that she was under orders by Kari not to cry lest the floodgates open. Also, it was…
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Only $2.4 million in Winnetka, Ill. one of the Windy City’s most deliciously wealthy neighborhoods. This is the home made famous by adorable Macaulay Culkin in the 1990 hit movie, “Home Alone,” tapes and DVDs of which have run on our TV so much they may well be worn out. Winnetka is approximately 20 miles…
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Now here’s a game changer in real estate marketing that ought to catch both consumer and agent with open ears: Groupon is offering on line real estate deals. A Chicago broker is the first known business to use the popular on-line discount coupon service to convert more web site visitors to buyers and sellers. Frankly,…
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