Dallas

Monday Morning Millionaire, Romance Week Edition: Gorgeous Tuscan-Style Villa in McKinney

By Joanna England / February 10, 2014 /

This home is truly a labor of love, and it shows! This amazing Tuscan-style estate in McKinney took three years for the owner, an artist, to design and build. It has so many gorgeous and warm, intimate rooms to fall head-over-heels for, and trust me, this home is romance with a foundation and walls. From…

Bay Area Battle Begins Between Realtors And Activists Over Laws Limiting Speculation in San Francisco

By Joanna England / February 7, 2014 /

As Silicon Valley buyers moved in to San Francisco, prices for rentals and single-family properties have pushed sky-high. As Candy reported, the bus routes that shuttle employees to and from the Facebook and Google campuses have been protested and picketed by folks fed up with increasing cost of living and being pushed out of the…

Thursday Three Hundred: Adorable Santa Monica Home is Cozy, Quaint, And in One of The Best Neighborhoods in Dallas

By Joanna England / February 6, 2014 /

It seems like every week someone tells us what a fantastic neighborhood Hollywood-Santa Monica is. Cassie, Candy’s wonderful and generous daughter, moved there just last year. Our staging expert Karen Eubank lives there, as does Realtor Britt Lopez. It’s a super hot neighborhood! Just east of Lakewood you’ll find a well-curated collection of Tudors and…

CoreLogic HPI Shows Year-Over-Year Home Price Growth For Houston, Dallas MSAs

By Joanna England / February 5, 2014 /

According to the most recent report from CoreLogic, the Dallas-Plano-Irving MSA ranked seventh in year-over-year home price growth among the 100 statistical areas the firm measures in its Housing Price Index with a 9.4 percent increase in prices (excluding distressed sales) through the year ending in December 2013.

How Far Can an HOA Agreement Go? Man Sues Rabbi Hosting Twice-a-Day Synagogue Service in North Dallas Home

By Joanna England / February 5, 2014 /

Very interesting case here in North Dallas. Orthodox Rabbi Yaakov Rich has been hosting two services a day in his home, dubbed Congregation Toras Chaim, and recently applied for a Certificate of Occupancy with the City of Dallas.

Rabbi Rich wants to operate a religious center in his 3,572-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath home at 7103 Mumford Court. Built in 1986, records show this home was purchased in June of 2013 and is valued at $330,000. But neighbors are beginning to chafe from the traffic and parking problems in their HOA-protected community.