Jon Anderson
Jon Anderson is CandysDirt.com's condo/HOA and developer columnist, but also covers second home trends on SecondShelters.com. 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.
Turtle Creek Drive is so super-secret, DCAD doesn’t list it as a street. Instead you’ll find it under Turtle Creek Plaza. But you know exactly where it is. Who hasn’t walked either on the Katy Trail or along Turtle Creek across from the Warrington and seen those houses across the water? They ain’t small so…
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For me, this picture summed up the party. A gorgeous family home as backdrop for a sumptuous evening with HGTV hostess Adrian Leeds and 83 of CandysDirt.com’s best friends. The family friendliness of this chateau-inspired home was emphasized by Leeds and her daughter, and of course builders Sam and Debbie Elchami. Given all the recent,…
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As I write this, Adrian Leeds, HGTV hostess for House Hunters International is making her way to Dallas for a special evening in a special Preston Hollow property hosted by Candysdirt.com and Versailles, Inc. builders. If HGTV and luxurious Dallas real estate are your guilty pleasures, you’ll be able to combine the two Thursday night. …
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Way back, a rather large mansion occupied the northwest corner of Cedar Springs and … well … Cedar Springs (or Turtle Creek depending on your map). It’s sorta across the street from The Renaissance condos. For as long as I’ve been coming to Dallas (the mid-1980s) it’s always been an empty lot. Apparently that’s about…
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My top-line takeaways from last night’s public flogging unveiling of the latest from the Preston Center Task Force were that its results were better than previous airings, but still not fully baked, and as expected, the Pink Wall Negative Nancys were out in force only at the end of the process. But as I told…
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