Dallas Real Estate

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• Should You Just Walk On Your Mortgage, Ctd: HAMP or Hamper?

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  The Wall Street Journal’s Peter Eavis noted the very same problem I did with the Obama administration’s new found pressure on banks and lenders to speed up remodifications for hurting borrowers by year’s end. That’s 58% of those in the HAMP trial, or 375,000 borrowers. Great for coffee sales: those ...
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• Dallas Real Estate: An Informed Buyer is the Best Buyer

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  Yes, even in this market. In an earlier post today about settlement cracks, I posed the question of disclosing even minor crack repair on the Seller’s Disclosure should you sell your home. I am told that most of the lawsuits in Dallas real estate transactions today center on seller’s disclosure. So I am indebted ...
  7 hours ago

• DallasDirt Hits Publish Before Proofing

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  Oh dear, I knew this was going to happen someday. Was too quick on the trigger and hit “publish” on my last post accidentally when the phone rang… this must be how Linda Ellerbee felt …
  11 hours ago

• Should You (Just) Walk On Your Mortgage, DallasDirt Version: Take It While It’s Hot

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  Mr. Allison beat me to posting s omething I was debating recently with my son-in-law: how lenders and banks, as usual, are profiting off the Obama administration’s $75 billion dollar “Making Homes Affordable” program. My son-in-law is an attorney who told me weeks ago (think I posted) that mortgage companies ...
  12 hours ago

• Ask Candy: How Concerned Should I be About Cracks In Our House?

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  A reader writes: “My fiancé and I bought our first house in Caruth Terrace (in between Mockingbird and University to the south and north, and between Skillman and Abrams) about a year ago.  We have noticed a few cracks showing up on our walls and were wanting to have our foundation checked by someone who ...
  13 hours ago

• Dallas Realtor Out Meters Smart Electric Meters

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  Now here’s an agent who really looks out for her Dallas real estate clients. Dallas area Realtor Noreen Jones manages properties and noticed huge variances in the electric bills for the similar sized properties in Mesquite. Turns out,  electric distributor Oncor had made not one but two major billing mistakes. ...
  14 hours ago

• Dallas Real Estate: Chinese Dry Wall in Dallas?

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  The Consumer Product Safety Commission says Chinese dry wall is really bad stuff. So bad, in fact, it may corrode the metal in your home, rendering your HVAC coils, electrical fixtures, maybe even pipes (?) useless. I have asked and been told there is no Chinese dry wall in Dallas, but there is in Houston. Please ...
  15 hours ago

• Dubai and Dallas: Similarities, But Another Nail in the Credit Coffin?

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  By now you’ve heard that this small Middle Eastern emirate has told creditors it needs a six-month extension to pay back $60 billion plus in debt. European banks are reeling, and financial experts are saying this is going to be the next nail in the world credit coffin, others saying makes no diff and the Brits ...
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• Happy Thanksgiving From Dallas Dirt

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  For your Turkey Day viewing pleasure, I thought we all needed a little House Porn to accompany the stuffing. Dream on this baby with your drumstick in hand: one and a half acres on prestigious Hunters Glen in University Park, 10,000 square feet built in 1980, architectural design by Frank Welch, as if you couldn’t ...
  4 days ago

• Commercial Real Estate, Preston Royal: Landlord Locks Out Taco Mundo

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  The folks who own Preston Royal Shopping Center, known as a sterling Class A property in the biz, don’t fool around when folks don’t pay their rent or get their spaces up and running. That’s probably because rent is paid as percentage rental, based on sales or transaction volume, not a set monthly figure. So ...
  5 days ago

• Where Dallas Lives: Exposition Park Gallery

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  The beauty of our city is that you can live on Versailles for ten big ones, White Rock Lake for less than five , or here in Exposition Park for…  DallasDirt has her eye on the remaking of this DP&L Building and gallery.
  6 days ago

• Dallas Real Estate Showtime: Classic French Beauty on Versailles, Just Under $10 Million

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  The graphic for this 11,698 square foot home says “Welcome to Paris.” But I’m telling you, this home is almost better than being on the champs de Lycee . Where do I begin? The location — on a prime Highland Park street overlooking a park, pristine 98 by 133 corner lot. A dream team of  experts,  architect ...
  6 days ago

• Real Estate Center Presents Tales From The “Crypt”

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  If you are an agent,  broker, or all of those plus a real estate junkie like your’s truly, you may want to tune into this week’s  Real Estate Red Zone podcast from those folks at Texas A&M’s Real Estate Center. Beth Thomas  share tips for newbies, and hosts Bryan Pope and Edie Craig cover the latest ...
  6 days ago

• Thank Your Lucky Stars You’re In Texas — Not California!

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  Tory Gattis at The New Geography compiles six new reasons why Texas is well-positioned with value systems to make us a future leader in business, education and culture, which will all trickle down to a positive impact on local real estate. Example: they are debating a health care bill in D.C. that makes zero ...
  1 week ago

• Park Cities Doesn’t Like Sex, or Sex Stuff

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  A reader writes: “I live right behind that strip center in Briarwood, and there was nary a soul in there every time I drove by. Stopped in once for a last minute bachelorette party gift and asked the clerk if they were surviving. He said the store just about paid its rent, and that was it.”
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• Just in Time for Turkey Day: Some Good Real Estate News!

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  October home sales were up , nationally, a whopping 10% from September, all due to the first-time home-buyer credit’s pending expiration date. Which means you can count on two things in human nature and real estate: we embrace anything that gets us out of paying taxes, even if it’s buying a home, and we all ...
  1 week ago

• Adios Anteks

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
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• Sara’s Secrets Shuttered?

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  The store on Lovers Lane that sold sex toys and other titillating, spice-up-your-love-life paraphernalia, and threw Parkies into a Puritan-induced flurry last May , appears to be closed. I was in the area yesterday picking up a birthday cake at Astons and had to make an illegal U-turn back when I saw the empty ...
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• One In Seven U.S. Homes Past Due On Mortgage or in Foreclosure

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  And now we can blame the ballooning unemployment rate for getting people into default rather than sub-prime. This is why , even though we are seeing price stabilization in some parts of the country  I am not calling it Miller Time just yet: despite record-low interest rates, mortgage applications have declined for ...
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• So Is Barclays the Majority Owner of the Ritz-Carlton Dallas?

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 433
  Apparently, says Steve Brown . Steve focused on the commercial holdings in his 11/21 report, and God bless him for remembering all the “who owns” and “who sold to’s”. Morgan Stanley Real Estate, he says, basically could not make their $2 billion debt payment to the investment bank so Barclays took control ...
  1 week ago

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