Dallas Real Estate News

Time for Tums: A Plano Home OD’s on Drama. And Drapes.

By Candy Evans / October 20, 2011 /

Oh oh, I found some really bad design in a home up in Plano listed with Cindy O’Gorman for $2,365,000. All I can say, if all these dramatic drapes come with the house, play Scarlett O’Hara and whip them into a dress. Or use them to cover up that purple furniture. And note how the dining room…

Live Like a Wall Street Exec for a Fraction — The Tree House in Kessler, Under $500K. Candy Sale of the Week

By Candy Evans / October 20, 2011 /

Someone ought to send this post to Occupy Wall Street: this home is proof you can live like a billionaire without spending $5 million on a house! Last week I wrote about that glorious, one-bedroom Tree House in Highland Park that darling David Nichols has listed for $5,750,000. Just. Love. It. But, it’s a wee bit…

Dallas County Commissioners Must Be Smoking “Something”. They Want a 17- Story Ferris Wheel In Founders Plaza?

By Candy Evans / October 20, 2011 /

This has got to be some sort of a Texas State Fair related joke. The Dallas County Commissioners apparently want a new attraction, a 21st Century version of the famous Ferris Wheel at Fair Park, in downtown Dallas. They want to construct a huge rotating obervatory in Founders Plaza, to sit on top of the…

Former Texas Ranger Rafael Palmeiro’s Swanky Second Home in Pebble Beach: Asking $10,500,000

By Candy Evans / October 19, 2011 /

There’s Rafael Palmeiro asking for extra time to try and get his $40 million in debts settled. And here’s the Pebble Beach house he says will help him cover the interest payments on those debts if only he could sell it. It’s 1531 Riata Road and I went right by it this August when I…

Time for a Tums: Seeking The Worst Room In Dallas Real Estate, Home or Hotel…

By Candy Evans / October 19, 2011 /

This contender for Curbed’s “the Worst Room of 2011” inspired me to seek the worst here in Dallas. Thankfully, this room, which is really pretty Gawd awful, is in The Woodlands. Many miles from Dallas. In a 9,1000 square foot home listed for like $1.4 millon. Please note that the Realtor says: “no expense was…