Emerging Real Estate Markets

New Belk Store Open, Still Time to Win Free Tickets to Belk Charity Gala April 3

By Candy Evans / March 31, 2014 /

We’re living in high cotton now! Well, I got to tour Belk Friday, the new, hip, and oh so southern department store at the old Marshall Fields/Saks Fifth Avenue store at the Dallas Galleria. You recall how we interviewed the store’s (hot) manager, Salem Boohaker, he’s finer than frog hair split four ways. We helped him find…

Lisa Blue Baron Lists Her Mammoth Preston Hollow Mansion with Erin Mathews

By Candy Evans / March 28, 2014 /

Good one, Alan Peppard: this morning Alan helped me figure out a major piece of the Battle Behind the Pink Wall. I was pretty sure that Lisa Blue Baron, Dallas attorney extraordinaire and widow of Fred Baron, was the generous individual who hired attorney Michael Jung to represent the homeowners of the Preston Hollow East…

My Favorite Dallas Home With the "Book Room" Under Contract: Multi Million Dollar Sales Sizzle

By Candy Evans / March 28, 2014 /

We know that sales of homes priced at $1 million plus are out of sight and up 53 percent in North Texas from a year ago. I think my message from Luxury Portfolio last month in Las Vegas was clear: luxury and multi-million dollar properties are not just alive but selling well. Sales of modestly…

Second Home in the Hill Country: Recipes From Boot Ranch for “Inner Peas”

By Candy Evans / March 28, 2014 /

Boot Ranch is our favorite vacation (or permanent!) home community in the Texas Hill Country. When Chef Aaron J. Staudenmaier moved to Fredericksburg (from Dallas — he worked under Chef Kent Rathbun at Abacus, Jasper’s and at the farm-to-table concept, Rathbun’s Blue Plate Kitchen) to become the Boot Ranch Executive Chef in October 2012, he came…

Breaking: It’s Official. Scott Carlson Real Estate Acquired by Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s

By Candy Evans / March 27, 2014 /

Part one: Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s has begun an acquisition process that is part of their overall strategy to have a stronger presence in Lakewood area real estate. Today they made part of that process official: Robbie Briggs has acquired Scott Carlson Real Estate. And what a presence! Scott Carlson, a force of nature in the…