Dallas Luxury Real Estate

History is Alive and Well in This Classic Highland Park Home

By Karen Eubank / February 10, 2025 /

This classic Highland Park home is an example of what I advise readers on an almost weekly basis. You do not have to tear down our historic architecture to have a home that functions for modern life. All you need is the right team, and boy, did this beautiful 1911 home have that.  The present…

Banish Bland! Lacy Lange’s University Park French Eclectic Home Will Color You Happy

By Karen Eubank / February 3, 2025 /

Thank goodness for talents like those of interior designer Lacy Lange. Her gorgeous University Park French Eclectic home is the inspiration we need right now. After a decade of bland beige and gloomy gray, we are ready for color, and Lange offers it up with imagination and ingenuity. It’s evident that her design started at the…

The Most Glamorous Penthouse in Dallas

By Karen Eubank / January 27, 2025 /

In 2018, I had the privilege of touring Nancy Chandler’s glamorous penthouse. Nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to see. It was like stepping into a fantasy, and to fully appreciate this fantasy, you need the back story. Chandler was a legendary philanthropist and socialite, best remembered for rounding up her…

I’ll Take Luxury Real Estate For $23 Million!

By Karen Eubank / January 20, 2025 /

Don’t you think luxury real estate should be a Jeopardy category? It would be easy to win if you’re one of our regular CandysDirt.com readers because we try to get you all the dirt! So, when Allie Beth Allman’s Rachel Trowbridge sent over an invite to preview her new listing, a multimillion-dollar gated estate on…

A Return to Classic Highland Park Architecture

By Karen Eubank / January 13, 2025 /

If you remember the 1980s in Dallas, you’ll remember the joke. It was common cocktail banter that the construction crane was the new state bird of Texas. Although construction is not as pervasive as it was in the 1980s, some impressive new residences are being built. However, most of them are contemporary. So what a…