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.
What’re you over-paying for a 1,000-square-foot apartment on the east side of Turtle Creek? Cross the creek and see this 1,025-square-foot, one-bedroom, one-bathroom, sixth-floor condo at 3701 Turtle Creek. It’s a block off Blackburn … you know the street that runs through West Village … and the street that takes you two blocks to Turtle…
This week’s Tuesday Two Hundred falls on the perfect day to highlight two homes in the Oak Park Estates neighborhood of Kiest-Polk, just east of Kiest Park in Oak Cliff. They’re both single-story ranch homes and only a half-mile separates them. The homes, 2,042 and 2,102 square feet differ by 60 square feet and just…
I write a bit about development projects that include zoning changes of some sort. This is mostly because those that don’t require a zoning change just file their plans and they’re off. There is no public discussion, except after, when we see the usual awfulness that we’re all left to look at. Some, even CandysDirt.com’s…
At the November 2nd Legacy of Love fundraising event at the Melrose Hotel, you can (silently) bid on my writing a feature on (almost any) real estate topic of choice. Are you a Realtor that would like your listing featured on CandysDirt.com? Would you like a personal feature/interview focused on your career and strengths as…
When a document, supposedly crafted for long-term use, proves to be a barrier to the same long-term goals it was created to guide, it’s safe to call it a failure. If that failure occurs within a year of its adoption by the city, I suppose we can just call that Dallas. Yes folks, the Preston…
