Celebrity Homes
When Deion Sanders custom-built his sprawling estate in 1999, Prosper was more pasture than powerhouse. The 2000 Census counted just 2,097 residents. Today, the Census Bureau estimates Prosper’s population at 45,605 — more than 21 times its population when Sanders built the house. The future Hall of Famer was still playing for the Dallas Cowboys…
If you live in Dallas, the name Mary Kay Ash pulls about as much weight as Ebby Halliday. In fact, our own Elaine Raffel worked for Mary Kay Cosmetics. Fun fact: Elaine hired ME to freelance for Mary Kay when I was a young mom. Elaine’s story earlier this month about Richard Rogers’ homes drew…
Like an unofficial soundtrack of Texas summers, if you’ve listened to a Texas Rangers game anytime in the last four decades, you’ve heard the voice of Eric Nadel. Now the Hall of Fame broadcaster is parting with a different kind of home field — the North Dallas home that he and his wife, Jeannie, rebuilt…
Before he was a Grammy-nominated, chart-topping musician, Post Malone grew up in Grapevine. It’s proof that a once-quiet suburb can transform a music-loving kid into a global superstar. The artist formerly known as Austin Richard Post was 9 years old when he moved to Texas. His dad had taken a job running concessions for the…
If 2025 proved anything, it’s that CandysDirt.com readers are still deeply motivated by the intersection of power, design, and history — and they click when a story taps into more than just a price tag. This year’s most-read stories weren’t simply about big houses or big names, though there were plenty of both. They reflected…
