Condo Living

Yes, Dallas, There IS a New High End Luxury Condominium Complex Coming to Town

By Candy Evans / November 1, 2013 /

This is very preliminary scoop, so I will tell you outright that I may not have all the facts perfectly straight. But soon, I will. Let me tell you this: 2505 Turtle Creek, doesn’t that addy have a nice ring to it. I will bet you $100 and a bottle of Veuve that will be…

Thursday Three Hundred: Gorgeous Condo Inside the Sorrento, Where Amenities Are More Than an Afterthought

By Joanna England / October 31, 2013 /

The Sorrento is a really beautiful building that offers tons of great amenities to residents in a stunning, contemporary setting. If you want to capitalize on space, security, views and amenities, then you should definitely consider this building. Marketed by Keith Yonick for $330,000 is Unit 405 inside the Sorrento, a fabulous mid-rise development just…

LocalDwelling.com Lease of the Week: Live Inside Legedary Howard R. Meyer Highrise on Turtle Creek

By Joanna England / October 23, 2013 /

I have always loved this building, once touted as the tallest, largest, and most luxurious highrise west of the Mississippi River when it was built in 1957. Designed by the famed modernist Howard R. Meyer, 3525 Turtle Creek is a building with serious history. The most obvious design characteristic of this trademark midcentury modern highrise…

Rising Interest Rates Aren't Slowing Pre-Owned Home Sales, But Builders Need to Ramp up Construction

By Joanna England / October 9, 2013 /

You’d think that rising interest rates would slow the real estate market, but that’s not the case for the Dallas Area. According to Jim Gaines, an economist at the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, Dallas-area pre-owned home sales are up 20 percent year-over-year. In a conversation with Steve Brown, Gaines had this to…

Don Carter is REALLY Selling Out His Real Estate Portfolio To Move Over To…

By Candy Evans / October 3, 2013 /

UPDATE: I hate how slow DCAD is. Thank God for my sources. So Don Carter sold this unit to a real estate investor who lives in the W, Pierre Jean, closing 9/26. JP paid $1.2 because Carter basically said to him, take it, get rid of it. But of course it’s been updated and decked…