Jon Anderson
An award-winning columnist, Jon has earned silver and bronze awards for his columns from the National Association of Real Estate Editors in both 2016, 2017 and 2018. When he isn't in Hawaii, Jon enjoys life in the sky in Dallas.
It’s not often that there are two identical units across the hall from each other that are suited to completely different buyers. Enter 6151 Bandera Avenue units “C” and “D”. Both have two bedrooms with two bathrooms encompassing 1,462 square feet with surprisingly good closets and storage for a 1963 building. Both have the same…
Last week the Urban Land Institute (ULI) had their fall conference in Dallas. Columnist Amanda Popken already wrote about her experience. I generally feel the same way about conference sessions as I did seeing my first Jackson Pollock, “I could’ve done that.” The main difference being that in both examples, I didn’t. You see, conventions…
(Sung to the Mister Ed theme song) The House is a house, of course, of course, And no one can talk to a house of course That is, of course, unless the house is the famous Dallas House. Believe me, this unit at The House will speak to you. Heck, that wine room slurred sweet…
One episode of Designing Women has Julia Sugarbaker boast, “I don’t like to brag, but I’ve turned a few heads in my time.” To which Mary Jo retorts, “Well, you didn’t do it with those.” Of course they weren’t talking about the Atlanta penthouse situated atop the Mandarin Oriental Residences hotel and condominium project, because heads…
When I was a high-rise n00b, I didn’t consciously understand why I gravitated towards one floor plan versus another. Sure, sometimes it’s easy to spot — one’s too small, one’s got an inconvenient pillar, another doesn’t have enough closet space, and yet another is on a too-low floor. But why, when all things were relatively…
