Economy
We love the Bishop Arts District and every piece of real estate surrounding it. We love us those craftsmen bungalows and all the cute little cottages to be had for under $300,000. In fact, we fetch most of our Tuesday $200Ks from this part of town. But then there’s Roy’s Transmission and Auto Care. Roy Smith has…
Tonight is a very exciting night for the fine folks at Cantoni, that gorgeously gleaming contemporary home furnishings store in Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Irvine and Los Angeles. They are expanding this winter and adding on a Natuzzi Italia store-within-a-store at the flagship retailer in North Dallas up on Alpha Road. That Natuzzi boutique will be…
In case you have not noticed, real estate rentals of single family homes are soaring. Our friends at Zillow just paid $16 million for the real estate rental search site HotPads. Zillow says it is making this hefty acquisition to “expand the size of its growing rental audience and extend the reach of its marketing tools and productivity solutions for rental professionals.” Naturally, rentals rule in large cities like New York, San Francisco and Boston where real estate prices are high, the population is younger, more transient and there are more high density units to choose from.
Is it true that women in the 1950’s spent most of their time in bubble baths? I want to totally revive that trend, starting right here with this house porn! Here’s a delicious find up on 7715 Idlewood Lane, east of Hillcrest and north of Royal. Four bedrooms, five and a half baths, multiple formals. Snuggled…
It’s official: Bobby Abtahi is running for Dallas City Council, specifically the seat vacated by term-limited Angela Hunt. Oh excuse me, it’s ROBERT Abtahi, former Dallas City Plan Commissioner. You see, I know him as Bobby, a young man who was friends with my daughter in middle and high school and who, at the age…
