Celebrity Real Estate

Inwood Home of the Week: If the Tributes on Hunger Games Were to Fight for a Property, This Valley Ridge Mansion Would Be It

By Candy Evans / January 15, 2014 /

This 7362 square foot estate is located on one of the most coveted blocks in Dallas. There’s Beverly Drive and Park Lane, Strait Lane and St. Johns, Armstrong Parkway, Alice Circle and Lexington. Those are all wonderful streets. Then there is 4631 Valley Ridge. On Valley Ridge. This home, like  the neighborhood, is dripping with high…

Leaving on a Jet Plane to Visit Casa Santuario in Austin. $15 Million. No Reserve

By Candy Evans / January 15, 2014 /

Your’s truly is joining this fine group of Allie Beth Allman Urban agents plus designer extraordinaire Barry Williams, jetting down to Austin Wednesday on Southwest Air Lines. Who knows? Maybe we’ll end up in Cancun? We are going down to see a most extraordinary listing, the $15 million dollar Casa Santuario in Austin Texas. This…

Luxury Apartments to Soar Behind the Pink Wall? Homeowners May Not be So Happy

By Candy Evans / January 14, 2014 /

Steve Brown is calling the intersection of Preston and Northwest Highway the “highest-profile intersection in all of North Dallas.” Soon, it may be the site of an Texas-sized real estate battle. If there is a vortex of Dallas, this intersection is it. Sometimes you can even see downtown heading south on Preston. It may also…

Houston Real Estate News: Martha Turner Properties Sells to Sotheby's

By Candy Evans / January 12, 2014 /

Looks like I am going to have to put Houston Real Estate on my Google alerts. Found out last night from a Martha Turner agent that one of the oldest, and most successful high-end independent real estate brokerages in Houston has been swooped up by Sotheby’s International Realty Inc. of New York. Yes, Martha Turner Properties, which closed more than $2 billion in sales volume last year, has been acquired by Sotheby’s. The new firm will operate as Martha Turner Sotheby’s International Realty. All six Houston-area offices, and of course all 220 associates, are retained in the deal. According to the Houston Chronicle, MTP’s founder, Martha Turner, and biz partner Tom Anderson will stay on as co-presidents of the company.

Houston Real Estate News: Martha Turner Properties Sells to Sotheby’s

By Candy Evans / January 12, 2014 /

Looks like I am going to have to put Houston Real Estate on my Google alerts. Found out last night from a Martha Turner agent that one of the oldest, and most successful high-end independent real estate brokerages in Houston has been swooped up by Sotheby’s International Realty Inc. of New York. Yes, Martha Turner Properties, which closed more than $2 billion in sales volume last year, has been acquired by Sotheby’s. The new firm will operate as Martha Turner Sotheby’s International Realty. All six Houston-area offices, and of course all 220 associates, are retained in the deal. According to the Houston Chronicle, MTP’s founder, Martha Turner, and biz partner Tom Anderson will stay on as co-presidents of the company.