Celebrity Homes

The Perfect Love Nest For General Petraeus and Mrs. Broadwell: Tim Burton’s Dallas Version of a Mini Versailles

By Candy Evans / November 13, 2012 /

I don’t know about you, but I am just thoroughly enjoying the military soap opera that keeps unraveling in Washington D.C., North Carolina, and now Tampa, Florida! I guess it’s providing relief from stressing over the election and the Fiscal Cliff and capital gains taxes going up. To be honest, I have always had a…

The Lakewood Home Tour is TODAY! And TOMORROW! And I have Two More Tickets Left….

By Candy Evans / November 10, 2012 /

That’s it, TWO tickets for anyone who can tell me in what year J.J. Long School, pictured here, was built. So much on tap in Lakewood this weekend, you cannot miss Eddie Maestri’s modern farmhouse on Coronado, a spectacular mid century-modern influenced new build on Lake Circle, or a historic Spanish-style Hutsell home right Lakewood…

Troy Aikman Really Did Take His Home Off the Market… Like We Told You in September

By Candy Evans / November 10, 2012 /

Troy Aikman’s Highland Park home is officially off the market, as I told you back in September. Then, I thought it was because a buyer was circling, and selling it out of MLS could have kept the price a secret because of those pesky new MLS rules. But no,  Allie Beth Allman told Candace Carlisle…

Saturday Six Hundred You’d Better See Today, Because This Greenland Hills Tudor is Totally Modern Milly!

By Candy Evans / November 9, 2012 /

Realtors ask me to come see their homes HOURLY. Darling Maria Centeno with Virginia Cook has been trying to get me over to 5515 Morningside Drive now for ages. And you know what? When Maria talks, I listen and will forever more. This home would have been worth a drive in from — Timbuktu! I…

Ben Jones Builds Relationships That Last With A-Listers And Family Alike, and Charmed the Doyenne of Turkey Hill Road

By Cynthia Stine / November 7, 2012 /

CandysDirt.com talked recently with Ben Jones, Senior Vice President for Allie Beth Allman & Associates, which markets luxury properties primarily in the Park Cities, Preston Hollow and Lakewood areas. The 20-plus year real estate veteran has his own team, Ben Jones Real Estate Group. He is one of the most sought-after agents in the Dallas…