Celebrity Real Estate

Energy Transfer Partners Closes $5.5 Billion Deal With Sunoco: Hello Dallas, That’s Klyde Warren’s Dad

By Candy Evans / October 7, 2012 /

I recall hearing about this, but it didn’t resonate until I saw it in Bloomberg: Our Energy Transfer Partners, as in Kelcy Warren and his son Klyde, who has a downtown Dallas park named after him, now heads a dang big company that includes more pipeline than Larry Ellison has homes. Energy Transfer Partners has…

Richard Malouf Really Likes Water Games, Turns Hoses On Us On Strait Lane

By Candy Evans / October 2, 2012 /

Byron Harris at WFAA-TV is the guy who busted Richard Malouf. He’s got some more info coming down the pike, and we are both watching progress on what I have christened “Water Pic Park”, the massive backyard private water park project Malouf is building over at 10711 Strait Lane. So Friday we met in front…

Museum Tower: Takes an Ad in the DMN, is Experimenting with Different Glass?

By Candy Evans / September 28, 2012 /

I was downtown with my mother-in-law this week, and I said to her, look at Museum Tower: it looks to me like they are experimenting with different panes of glass, perhaps to solve the re-flectivity issue. No confirmation, but it sure looked that way to this evil eye. Then today, a very smart move by…

Welcome to Luxury Dallas TV: An Inside Look at Three of the Most Beautiful Homes in Dallas

By Candy Evans / September 27, 2012 /

Phil Romano on Strait Lane, St. John’s Drive in the honeypot of Highland Park, and a 16,000 plus square foot rock castle on Briarwood in Bluffview. Can it get any better? Thanks to LeeAnne Locken and Allyson Aynesworth, I brought a little House Porn to Luxury Dallas TV and loved every minute of it. Frankly,…

Case-Shiller Says Home Prices Are Singing 2003 — Dallas Hanging Steady, Acting More Like 2008

By Candy Evans / September 26, 2012 /

In the eyes of the latest S&P/Case-Shiller housing report, which indexes existing (not new) home sales in 20 major U.S. cities, it’s 2003 when it comes to housing prices. That’s good news. We are told the average U.S. home price in July rose 1.6%, this compared to the previous month, marking the third straight month that…