Dallas Real Estate News

Is It A Renter’s Market? Apartment Construction is Booming; Occupancy, Prices are Up

By Joanna England / May 3, 2012 /

Looks like developers are working hard to keep up with demand as new apartment high- and mid-rises are going up across the region.

Hot Property: Irmgard Arthur. What’s the Secret to Long Term Relationships: Multiple Houses

By Candy Evans / May 3, 2012 /

It’s kind of like having Kim Dawson as your real estate agent. No kidding, did you know Allie Beth Allman agent Irmgard Arthur used to be an international runway model and opened her own wildly successful school of modeling back in Germany? The classes included ladies self improvement, teenage charm and even exercise classes! She arranged arranged fashion shows and used the…

North Texas Mansion Champ D’Or Closed Monday: Meet the New Owners

By Candy Evans / May 3, 2012 /

Could they be buying it as a second or third home? Champ d’Or closed Monday, April 30, according to Laura Brady of Concierge Auctions. Which means it is official: Shirley and Al Goldfield no longer own the Hickory Creek mega mansion they have been trying to sell almost since the day they completed the 40,000…

Glass in High Rises Problematic Elsewhere: Remember the W in Austin?

By Candy Evans / May 2, 2012 /

It wasn’t reflective heat, but Austin, our oh so ecologically correct sister city to the south, had major problemos last summer with the W Hotel and Residences last summer. The Austin-American Statesman found that Austin “does not insist on the safest kind of architectural glass for guardrails, or specifically, require engineering inspections of exterior balconies on the…

Dallas Realtor Rich Patterson’s Web Traffic Must Be Killing Him

By Candy Evans / May 2, 2012 /

Because Bloomberg, in this story on the Museum Tower/ Nasher fracas, which actually and interestingly focuses more on the investments, more accurately the risks, taken by the $3.1 billion Dallas Police & Fire Pension System, linked back to the Dave Perry-Miller agent’s website: “With 52 percent of its assets invested in recent years in such alternatives…