Valerie Jarvie

Greg Norman-Branded Casas in Cabos: Rancho San Lucas, a Golfer’s Paradise

By Valerie Jarvie / April 14, 2017 /
Norman Estates

Golfers with Baja-leaning souls listen up: a stellar oceanfront golf resort with a luxury residential component in Cabo San Lucas is on the horizon, a partnership between famed golfer Greg Norman and the Solmar Group, longtime developers of award-winning resorts. In early 2016, Rancho San Lucas on the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula broke…

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Horse Farm with A Heart: Equest’s Wylie Campus is For Sale

By Valerie Jarvie / April 5, 2017 /

Last week we posted on the Tolkien-inspired home and garden tour event in Preston Hollow April 6 to 8 you can attend to benefit Equest. More details on the whimsical property: the main house is 9,000 square feet and, along with an Old World forest garden, there’s an underground hobbit-friendly guest house with a secret passage,…

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A Hobbit Haven Tour in Preston Hollow to Benefit Equest

By Valerie Jarvie / March 30, 2017 /

  Cozy cottage. Estate-size lot. Garden setting. Heavily-treed. Water features. No, it’s not for sale, but you can tour it and support a great cause, too. Equest, the wonderful organization that brings hope and healing to children and adults with special needs through horse-assisted activities and therapies, is hosting a cottage and garden tour open to…

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Paradise in Panama — A Rain Forest Mountain Home

By Valerie Jarvie / March 28, 2017 /

  Panama: it’s routinely touted as one of the best places on earth for American retirement, with its stable government, spectacular climate, welcoming attitude, and low cost of living. Lil and Robert Miller moved to Panama from New Jersey eight years ago when they took early retirement. They’ve loved every minute of their adventure in…

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Second Shelters: Find a Waterside Retreat in a North Texas Arts Mecca, Clifton

By Valerie Jarvie / March 17, 2017 /
clifton

So your family wants a vacation home in the country, but peace and quiet are just not enough for you — you require art and social outlets built around it to feed your soul, even in a rural retreat. Take heart. There’s a North Texas place not far from Dallas-Fort Worth that just might fill…

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