Emerging Real Estate Markets

Richard Malouf’s Water Park COULD Have Been Worse: Could Have Been Lined with Gold, Like Versace’s

By Candy Evans / July 18, 2012 /

Over on SecondShelters.com, our Miami correspondent, Andrea Kavanagh tells us the South Florida market is sizzling — just what I heard at NAREE. It’s from foreigner’s buying up Miami real estate with hard, cold cash. Speaking of cash, Versace said “money was not just no object, it was irrelevant” when he built his waterside mansion…

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Dallas Most Popular City in U.S. With Generation Y — Millennials

By Candy Evans / July 18, 2012 /

According to giant Moving.com, an online source for moving-related services, millennials love Dallas. Like, a whole lot. Seems that with the job market so tight and everything pretty sucky once they graduate from college, millennials are shunning NYC and the We$t Coa$t for cities with job growth and affordable housing. And guess what, we have…

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OMG: Does This Mean I’ll Have to Actually USE My Viking Range? Hotel & Condo Restaurants in Dallas Seem to be Disappearing

By Candy Evans / July 18, 2012 /

We were just talking about this with Kyle Crews, Daylon Perraria, Missy Woehr and the other fine folks at The Residences at the Ritz Carlton, Dallas, when I had to scoot fast because buyers were coming in to sign a contract. I hope they liked those stoves at The Ritz. Never know when you have…

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Life Imitating Art: Former Kimbell Staffer Modeled San Antonio Home After Museum

By Joanna England / July 16, 2012 /

Maybe it’s just because I haven’t worked in any truly beautiful structures, but I would never model my home after a former workplace. Who wants to go home and be reminded of work?

Emily Sano did.

After working at Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum for about 10 years, Sano accepted a position at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Still, she remained heartsick for the place where she spent many a day admiring the light and flow of the Louis Khan-designed museum, says this piece from the Wall Street Journal.

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Monday Morning Millionaire II, for the Jet Set: House, Trimmings Plus a 2323 Square Foot Jet Hangar and Toy Box

By Candy Evans / July 16, 2012 /

This is a home at Air Park-Dallas, or Dallas Air Park,  actually a strip of homes near an airport now owned by the City of Carrollton. You are seconds from Willow Bend Mall, in Collin County, and I mean by car. Dallas Air Park was built in 1965  by Milton Noell, former mayor of Addison,…

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