Economy

Look Who Popped Into Yesterday's Metrotex North Dallas Meeting & Got Hold of the Blondes

By Candy Evans / December 4, 2013 /

That’s Todd Staples, candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Texas with me, Rhonda Needham, Former TAR TREPAC Chair, and precious Vicki White, Keller Williams Elite. Todd sure made the agents feel great when he said “Realtors are the reason why Texas is doing so well!” After cautioning everyone on the headwinds facing Washington, he focused on the…

10 Nonesuch Road Hits MLS, and Takes a Half Million Price Whack in Time for Thanksgiving

By Candy Evans / November 27, 2013 /

I may have forgotten to tell you that 10 Nonesuch Road, the stunningly significant Dallas Landmark and Lakewood mansion that once belonged to the late Stanley Marcus, in fact, was designed and built by Stanley Marcus, has left the Hip Pocket world and entered the world of the MLS. Dave Perry Miller agent Nancy Johnson is…

Inwood Mortgage Home of the Week: Raise & Roam Your Free-Range Turkey in this Luxe South Lindhurst Santa Barbara Spread

By Candy Evans / November 27, 2013 /

Let’s face it: people in Santa Barbara do eat turkey. But the turkey they eat is different from the $1.99 a pound Butterball you and I might consume. It is free-range, hormone-free, stress-free, anti-biotic free,  gluten free (no carbs, wow these birds have more willpower than I do) and of course, preservative free. The little…

Reviving The McMansion: What Was On Its Way Out Three Years Ago is Making a Comeback Today

By Joanna England / November 25, 2013 /

Perhaps the new sign of fully recovered economy should be a McMansion? Or maybe our economy would be better judged by the size of the middle class? In 2010, while we were still trying to figure out what went wrong with the federal stimulus and which bank was to blame for it all (answer: none…

Frank L. Meier Historical Spread Built for Richard Rogers Had Two Lear Jets as Collateral

By Candy Evans / November 22, 2013 /

  This luscious home at 5622 Harbor Town up in Bent Tree North, was designed by starchitect Frank L. Meier in 1981. It brings us nicely out of an introspective week here on CandysDirt.com, gazing at 1963-era homes built the year President John F. Kennedy made his tragic, fateful trip to Dallas. The home is…