East Dallas

Best of 2021: This Lochwood Midcentury Gets a Dramatic Minimalist Modern Makeover

By Joanna England / December 31, 2021 /

[Editor’s Note: While the CandysDirt.com team takes a hot minute this holiday season to recharge the ol’ Energizers, we’re serving up our very favorite stories from 2021. Enjoy!] Joanna: On Fridays, I typically serve up a listing that falls somewhere between $400K and $599K and anywhere in the region. However, sometimes I get a little sentimental and have…

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Will East Dallas Lose What it Loves Most as Developers Make Moves?

By Joanna England / November 15, 2021 /

Besides White Rock Lake, why do people move to East Dallas? A popular answer to that question is “the trees.” East Dallas is known for its lush canopy of elms, live oaks, pecans, and ash trees. In the area near the spillway at White Rock Lake, where Ash Creek and White Rock Creek converge, the…

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Wondering What That Smell is Coming From White Rock Lake?

By Joanna England / September 26, 2021 /

As someone who lives on the east side of White Rock Lake, I’m pretty used to the occasional weird smell emanating from the urban body of water. However, when the second email hit my inbox about a sewage-like odor coming from White Rock Lake, I had to smell it for myself. The Dallas Arboretum is…

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This Lochwood Ranch is a Sleeper That Has Everything You Want

By Joanna England / August 12, 2021 /

Listen, I might be biased, but some of the best houses that are hitting the market these days are in the East Dallas enclave of Lochwood. I mean, what’s not to love about Lochwood? We’ve lauded and praised and fawned over this neighborhood for as long as the staff at CandysDirt.com has been dishing the…

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With The Right Hands, This East Dallas Dome House Went From Hobbit to High Style

By Nikki Barringer / July 29, 2021 /

Back in 2015, Michael Russell decided that after 13 years in his super cool Midcentury Modern it was time to move on. That Midcentury Modern was so cool, in fact, it just recently sold again and we featured it. In the feature we called out the mega-deck out back and guess what? Russell built that…

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