Finders Keepers for This Dallas Home With Highland Park ISD Perks

Sometimes really great homes fly under the radar, especially this time of the real estate season when they have come online during the summer months.

I cannot believe 7816 Hanover Street is still on the market. We could swoop it right up. I have always wanted to live on either Hanover or Dartmouth, where I met my husband (the school not the street).

Someone is going to swoop this jewel up very soon and snag a heck of a deal: it’s been reduced by $70K!

Come on, Highland Park ISD! There are a wee handful of homes in Dallas that feed into the coveted Highland Park Independent School District desired by so many, the crown jewel that, among other things, keeps Highland Park and University Park property values so high. I know so many buyers scour for homes in this particular nook. The home is on a very blessed part of Hanover Street: it is the only part that is a non-through street where you find kids out shooting baskets and playing all summer and after school — things they can only do on closed-off streets.

Then too, there are some homes that pictures just don’t do justice. This pretty keeper is a warm contemporary build by Edinburgh Custom Homes, quality prolific builders. Built in 2014, the home feels like 2025, new and impeccably maintained because, not to be rude, the owner has no children. In fact, he is a very cool bachelor workaholic with two dogs. (Love him already, he won’t be single for long!) A few conference calls and Zooms over there, no kids’ birthday parties with donkeys, cookies ice cream. or SLIME. The lot is 0.22, almost a quarter of an acre, with a designer dog run and room for a pool. So what is stopping buyers from jumping on this casa?

This 5,772-square-foot pad has everything: the FLOWING open floor plan Edinburg Custom Homes just owns, the hardwood floors, and so much natural light you may never have to turn on a switch until dusk. The kitchen is gorgeous, decked out with high-end appliances like that huge stainless Sub Zero, marble counters, and coordinating chandeliers, with a huge center island, walk-in pantry, and even a Butler’s serving cove open to the living and dining rooms, where you can park your bartender. There are beautiful formal areas plus a study with pocket doors. That room is easily convertible to a private guest suite with a bath nearby. The main living area opens gracefully to a covered, automatic, phantom screened-in patio with a wood-burning fireplace — guys love these, especially for cigars and brandy by the fire — and a gusty ceiling fan to keep it cool.

Now the primary suite is upstairs, which some may find daunting. But I think this is necessary for every parent of young kids. We always had our bedroom upstairs until our kids were in high school. I have a theory that children’s sleep problems all start in these big houses with downstairs master suites — the kids cannot find their parents!

Seriously, Shirly Goldfield (Champ D’Or) once told me she decided to sell the 48,000-square-foot Champ D’Or (on 39 acres) because the kitchen was too far from the bedroom and her grandkids could never find her in that huge Hickory Creek manse. Blast from the past: remember Champ D’Or?

Champ D’Or has been on the market since the day it was completed in 2002, priced from $72 million to $35 million, depending on the land tossed into the deal, the market, or the owners’ whim. You could open a boutique agency with all the agents who have listed (and $$$ marketed!) Champ, the latest being Joan who was also, ironically, the first. The owners of the property are Alan and Shirley Goldfield, he the cellphone mogul, she the one who re-created Chanel’s Paris boutique in her master closet: it is outfitted with 18K gold doorknobs, a vanity with an antique chair purchased in France, a $30K custom gold chandelier, made in Florence, a custom iron railing modeled after the famed mirrored one in the Chanel store on Rue de Cambon in Paris, and a $10K custom area rug with the brand’s intersecting-C logo.

“When I built this closet, I tried to think of everything that I would need,” Goldfield told HGTV when they filmed the closet.

Champ was on literally every media outlet that existed from 2010 to 2012.

With four bedrooms total, all ensuite baths and walk-in closets, two bedrooms are in the east wing of this Hanover Street home, right up from the foyer. Behind is the third bedroom, located closer to the primary, that could be a nursery or a secondary office. There is also the media/playroom in this wing with a full wet bar, which can be functional for many uses due to its convenient location.

In fact, I have seldom seen a home this flexible.

The large laundry room with sink and storage is upstairs. Storage in this house is way over the top. That’s how Edinburgh Custom Homes rolls.

The price? $3.43 million a haircut down from $3.5, plus a $10,000 agent bonus. My sixth sense tells me this seller is ready to move on to another fabulous home with his pups, and 7816 Hanover Street is going to get real popular, real fast!

Alyse Kate Van Scoy of Allie Beth Allman & Associates has listed 7816 Hanover St. for $3.43 million.