Dallas Real Estate News

Building With the Boys: The First Big Huge Hairy Decision — Who Is Going to BUILD This Sucker?

By Candy Evans / July 9, 2012 /

When we first met Candy in 2009, our address was on undeniably emasculating Princess Lane. (She loved it!) The place had just sold, and we were excited about the endless opportunities for the upcoming mid-century modern project under contract on Bobbitt Drive. (We also suffered her endless jokes about Lorena. Bobbit. As in cut off…

Monday Morning Millionaire: Praying For a Price Break? Converted Church in Junius Heights is Now Under a Million!

By Joanna England / July 9, 2012 /

You’ll recall that our lovely Candy told us last April that you could get 5601 Eastside, the former home of St. John’s United Methodist Church in Junius Heights — for around $1.5 million, which was, as she said “highway robbery.” Well, if that was still too rich for your blood, the 11-bedroom, nine-and-a-half-bath amazing church…

A Week of Fireworks — In the Dallas Home Building Real Estate Market, That Is

By Candy Evans / July 6, 2012 /

During the Real Estate bubble, Dallas Realtor extraordinaire Della Lively told me every home builder in town was drinking champagne. Then the bubble burst, and now, with the exception of a very few, they can barely afford beer. The real estate downturn sliced and diced home starts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area by more than…

Friday Five Hundred: Need Some Extra Income? This Perry Heights Home Has a Garage Loft That Will Rent in a Snap!

By Joanna England / July 6, 2012 /

I know it looks petite and unassuming from the front, but inside 4423 N. Hall St. is a spacious, elegant home with a huge garage loft, too! When most people are looking for a home, income property doesn’t often cross into their radar. You’re looking for someplace to live, right? Not someplace for you to…

OMG It’s a Shard Show: Renzo Piano’s Newest Skyscraper Opens in London With a LASER LIGHT SHOW!

By Candy Evans / July 6, 2012 /

You’ve just got to see this. One cannot help but think that perhaps, given the real estate reflection battle here in Dallas between the Renzo Piano-designed Nasher and Museum Tower and all the media banter about Museum Tower being a giant laser to the Nasher, that it  inspired the idea for this laser light show…