Celebrity Homes

Look Who’s Selling Real Estate Now Department: Sweet Brown Now Pushing 1-800-2SellHomes. And a Cool Pop

By Candy Evans / July 20, 2012 /

Remember Sweet Brown? She is a hoot. Looks like she’s now selling real estate for Oklahoma City based 1-800-2SellHomes, a company with only 6 employees that buys up homes and can buy YOUR home… yup, even if it had a fire!    

Friday Four Hundred: The Not So Rocky Feel of 1963, Dallas Real Estate Fit for the Fam

By Candy Evans / July 20, 2012 /

Look at this home, what do you see? I see 1963: President Kennedy was still in the White House, Camelot ruled. The press didn’t let you know about every little presidential transgression — TWITTER? Yeah, twitter your thumbs. Never mind that JFK had his fling with 19 year old Mimi Beardsley Alford who went to the same…

At the Ritz Residences, Even the Driveway Gets Plastic Surgery

By Candy Evans / July 19, 2012 /

Only at the Ritz would they bring in beauty consultants to give their driveway a good, solid microdermabrasion. This is at Residences Tower I. Turns out last year’s winter freeze left pock-marks on the pavement that were not too pretty, and really chewed up the concrete. Rather than opt for topical coverage — drive-way make-up…

Richard Malouf’s Water Park COULD Have Been Worse: Could Have Been Lined with Gold, Like Versace’s

By Candy Evans / July 18, 2012 /

Over on SecondShelters.com, our Miami correspondent, Andrea Kavanagh tells us the South Florida market is sizzling — just what I heard at NAREE. It’s from foreigner’s buying up Miami real estate with hard, cold cash. Speaking of cash, Versace said “money was not just no object, it was irrelevant” when he built his waterside mansion…

How About a Pool Lined With 24-Carat Gold? For $125 Million, Miami’s Most famous Residence, the Versace Mansion, Can Be Yours!

By Candy Evans / July 18, 2012 /

Our Miami correspondent, Andrea Kavanagh, is back and house-hunting for us! Calling all billionaire art aficionados and free-spending, globe-trotting investors! Miami is all a buzz over Ocean Drive’s most infamous residence to hit the sizzling hot real estate market at a whopping $125 million. Casa Casuarina, also known as the Versace mansion, is an iconic…