Crespi Estate

Real Estate, Retail, And Riches: When CNN’s Richard Quest Knocks, You Answer

By Candy Evans / April 15, 2022 /

We were checking our bags at SFO on January 6 when I got an email from a producer at CNN, a chap named Robert Howell: Hi Candy, I am a producer with CNN’s “Quest’s World of Wonder” program. It’s a monthly travel show hosted by Richard Quest that aims to uncover the “DNA” of cities around…

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The 5 Most Amazing Luxury Real Estate Auctions We’ve Seen

By Candy Evans / July 25, 2020 /

I was hooked the very first time I heard about a real estate auction. First of all, I am a consummate bargain hunter. Though I need nothing in this world, I trotted into Tuesday Morning as soon as it re-opened. Imagine how the prospect of getting a house for cheap energizes my blood? But why…

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Crespi Estate Changes Hands, Lands With Local Family

By Bethany Erickson / June 28, 2019 /

If the railroads vital to the Crespi family’s cotton trade had run through Waco and not Dallas, Pio and Florence Crespi might have hired Maurice Fatio to build their estate there, instead of Walnut Hill Lane in Dallas. And nobody would be agog today at the news that the Crespi estate, which has changed hands…

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Crespi Walnut Place Estate Back On Market After Quick Flip

By Bethany Erickson / July 19, 2018 /
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When the Walnut Place Estate — the former Crespi Estate — sold at auction last year, it went for a record $36.2 million, and to a familiar buyer — Dallas developer Mehrdad Moayedi. Word came this week that Moayedi has finished up some renovations, and has put it back on the market for a cool $38.5 million. The Dallas Business…

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Mehrdad Moayedi Buys Crespi Estate Walnut Place at Auction for $36.2 Million (Inside Pics!)

By Candy Evans / December 20, 2017 /

Dallas developer Mehrdad Moayedi today purchased Dallas’ biggest and most expensive home, the former Thomas O. Hicks estate on Walnut Hill Lane, that Dallas billionaire Andy Beal bought in January of last year and decided to sell almost as soon as the ink was dry on the contract. The estate was at one point the…

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