Friday Five Hundred

If You Missed This Midcentury Modern, Here’s Your Second Chance

By Joanna England / January 7, 2022 /

Love at first sight can be brutal. That’s especially true in real estate. Truly, if you fall in love with a home in this market, you have to act fast and outbid everyone else who fell for it, too. It’s like an episode of The Bachelor, except it’s many would-be homeowners wooing sellers with crazy-high…

This Sparkman Club Estates Home is Perfect For a Pandemic Plant Parent

By Joanna England / December 3, 2021 /

The buying power in Dallas is real right now, with homes in the $400s and $500s selling like homes in the $300s were about three years ago. With homes moving fast, you have to either whittle down your “must-have” list until it resembles Kate Moss back in the 1990s or you miss out. For people…

A Farmers Market Townhome That Has Seen Downtown Dallas’ Transformation

By Joanna England / October 22, 2021 /

When I moved to Dallas in 2005, it was to work for The Dallas Morning News. Fresh out of college and still learning about the world, it felt like a strange privilege to work for incredibly meager pay (It was bad, y’all) with some bona fide journalism legends. One of those legends was Keven Ann…

Tons of Potential With This Deceptively Sized Arlington Heights Home

By Joanna England / October 15, 2021 /

From the curb, this home looks like a modest cottage in the Fort Worth neighborhood of Chamberlain Arlington Heights. At first, I looked at this home and wondered to myself, “For more than $500,000, where is the rest of the house?” Well, let me tell you that there’s plenty of house at 5332 El Campo…

No Swimming Upstream With This Salmon Drive Remodel

By Nikki Barringer / September 17, 2021 /

Surprise! This is our second featured property of the week from Compass Real Estate’s Jenni Stolarski. She’s killing it over in Oak Cliff, per usual. This little cottage is located at 823 Salmon Drive and it’s so crisp and clean and STILL feels cozy and thoughtful and just plain lovely. Completely remodeled in 2018, the…