Dallas Luxury Real Estate

Talk About a “Great Room,” This Great Prestie Holler Spec Just Took a Big Fat Price Reduction…

By Candy Evans / January 19, 2015 /

Here is a brand spanking new Preston Hollow home on Pemberton, a couple houses west of Hillcrest. Really nice construction, the home is a spec, yes, but an elegant one. Which reminds me: there is a trend I am seeing in spec homes: they are getting snazzier by the minute. Gone are the days when…

Health, Wealth and Natural Beauty: The Story of the House of Love

By Candy Evans / January 12, 2015 /

Here’s the way to start the New Year right: healthy living on the top of a hill with majestic, blood-pressure-lowering mountains all around you. And oh the fresh air! Go ahead and fill your bottles with tap water from the sink, courtesy of an aquifer that has not seen light in 18,000 years.  Dallas? Sorry,…

Some Fancy Architectural Digs Up in The Hood of Glen Abbey: Won’t You Be Tony Romo’s Neighbor?

By Candy Evans / January 5, 2015 /

You know how we told you that Tony Romo is building a giant, and I do mean giant, home up in Glen Abbey?  Surely you are caught up on all this. That story ran last April — the home must be nearing completion. The new Romo home is next door to Peter Shaddock, a well-known,…

The Most Talked About MMM in Dallas in 2014: Big House at Inwood & Royal Still Available

By Candy Evans / December 29, 2014 /

Letting you in on an inside secret here at CandysDirt.com. We “nickname” our weekly Monday Morning Millionaire postings the MMM. When I created CandysDirt, I wanted to post homes on humdrum Mondays that would REALLY  wake readers up. Because, you know, it’s Monday, and you deserve to be blown away. (Come to think of it,…

All I Want For Christmas Is a Charles Dilbeck, a Charles Dilbeck, a Charles Dilbeck

By Candy Evans / December 22, 2014 /

Dear Santa: I have always wanted to live in a Charles Dilbeck home. Ever since I moved to Dallas and learned that Charles Dilbeck was one of the area’s most prolific architects, I have wanted to buy one of his homes. They were the first “older” homes I saw in Dallas. Well, that is, until…