A reader writes:
“Hi Candy:
Would we be crazy for buying our first house, a decently restored Craftsman, on a block that is otherwise duplexes? Its in Junius Heights so there are a lot of duplexes all over the area, craftsman and prairie style duplexes but……. yea. And its also one block from an [...]
As anyone buying a home over $417,000 in Dallas knows, it is nearly impossible to get a mortgage unless you have 40% in equity (from, hopefully, the sale of your previous home) and near perfect credit. The huge rise in bankruptcies means a lot of folks are not going to be able to secure mortgages [...]
Look at this cutie pie at 4606 West Amherst Ave., two bedrooms, two baths, two living areas, sunroom, a Seaside, WaterColor cottage-y feel to it with numerous updates and pool. No wonder Barbara Corcoran has chosen this little number to feature on Friday’s NBC TODAY Show in her national real estate report. The price? $349,000. [...]
Come on, it’s not even Thanksgiving! OK, next year, whoever sends me a photo of someone who puts up holiday lights before Halloween gets a free lunch with me at Fearings!
It’s not a GFI, mighty close to that sink, and the tub is conveniently just around the corner. ZZZZZZZZZZ!
Otherwise, cute house. Imagine finding real marble in a home built in the 1950’s.
Either that, or they started to make a door but didn’t finish the job.
Maybe? Maybe they didn’t finish the framing around this attic door because they wanted a great secret place to hide valuables? Or maybe, maybe that’s the Panic Room.
I am really worried about that lonely little rock holding up that hearth. If someone who might be charged for two seats on Southwest Airlines sits down with a glass of spiked eggnog in his hand… that hearth is going to be history. I mean, people live in houses and sit on hearths and [...]
Because I truly believe that homes have souls, I just love it when they finally find a family. 4214 Manning is one of my favorite bittersweet new construction stories out there. The builders were trying to go outside the box, build a unique home with a strong New Orleans-style slant. Might have worked had the [...]
If you lived here, this would be the view from your kitchen window 24/7. I am obsessed with this Waterview neighborhood, in Richardson Heights. Trees, creeks, stone—it’s like a slice of the Hill Country one mile west of Central Expressway, just north of Belt Line Road. I was perusing the cul de sacs in the [...]
I love Comerica Bank and it is where we have banked for years. After this post, they are probably going to cut off our access to any credit, raise our fees, but I just cannot help it. I go to the drive-through yesterday to make a deposit, and I note these shiny new auto-teller machines. [...]
It is with a saddened heart I tell you that Mary Frances Burelson, President and CEO of the Ebby Halliday Companies, has lost her beloved life mate of more than 55 years, Rufus C. Burleson. Mr. Burleson died in his sleep on November 13 while accompanying his wife to the National Association of Realtors convention [...]
Here’s what you won’t see on the jazzed-up internet graphics: a new way to recycle styrofoam. I saw this in a home on the market in Northwest Dallas. Here’s what you see on the internet. But wait, it gets better.
At last, the long-awaited results of that Kennedy Wilson auction at the Hilton Anatole on November 7. I called Kennedy Wilson’s publicist, have not heard back, but a DD reader who went to the auction sent this great report – -thanks so much! The Park Hollow units were combined, as he reports, with the Craig [...]
Married 75 years ago today in Johnson City, Texas, where — full disclosure — I own property. Johnson City, Fredericksburg, Stonewall (where the LBJ Ranch is located) and Blanco have grown considerably over the years; market a bit soft even though this part of Texas has one of the strongest real estate stories in the [...]
How much will it will set you back to live in one of those new Ritz-Carlton Towers? And yes, the model we stayed in had a round central hallway. Catering trays fit around the central table like a charm:
“Candy, You stayed in #1601K and it is priced at $2,360,000. Your reader asked about #1301K [...]
Now that it’s up here on Dallas Dirt, Sweet Charity’s precious Jeanne Prejean may lose this once in a lifetime chance to buy her dream home at a greatly reduced price. I mean, this puppy is on the drastically reduced shelf… hopefully not a scratch and dent.
9243 Church Road, reduced $150,000 from $650,000 to $425,000. [...]
I love you guys over at DFW Around Town, KXAS-TV, but really, aren’t you a little late coming to the Ritz party? Been there, done that, and need to tell you how much I wish I were at the Ritz Spa all week today. Or, actually, anywhere near the hotel that was awarded AAA Five [...]
Cute little house, no? $179,000, 7530 Caillet Street – that area behind Lovers Lane, bit west of Simon David and the Bird Streets, an area saturated with more renters but one that I predict as a general personal opinion (NOT as a realtor) will flourish with first time homebuyers in the next boom. Not giving [...]
Are we worried? With even more foreclosures on the horizon? By the way, I just read that one in four home buyers is interested in foreclosures. That’s the mentality that’s really hurting “normal” home sales.
But most experts say no to worry, FHA has changed guidelines and rules and is actually check credit scores now.
I guess [...]
