High Rise Living in Dallas

Spend More Than a Night at The Museum: 8181 Douglas Lets You Live in Your Own Art Gallery

By Jon Anderson / July 7, 2017 /

Between explaining the housing crunch (here, here), flooding, new Pink Wall development, Dallas Midtown, and of course the latest in the mayor’s Fair Park friends-with-benefits giveaway, I’ve been on a tear these past few weeks. It’s time to break free with a little party, and unit 210 at 8181 Douglas definitely provides the balloons (you’ll…

Choice and Confusion: “C” What I See at Three Stoneleigh C-Plan Units

By Jon Anderson / June 16, 2017 /

Here’s something you don’t see every day.  A Goldilocks trio of quite different units in the same stack at the Stoneleigh.  You’ll recall, the Stoneleigh began life as a DIY building of unfinished shells. Some buyers gravitated to the complete freedom of designing their own interior without the added strife of actually designing a full…

Dallas High-Rise Buyer’s Guide: The End of the Beginning of the Road

By Jon Anderson / June 15, 2017 /

Gosh, how time flies.  It seems like only eight years weeks ago that we began this journey highlighting Dallas’ high-rise options for winged home buyers.  Now I guess it’s back to grazing through Wednesday broker open houses, snacking on steam-table tacos like Costco on a Saturday for us all. And while I am dubious this…

Dallas High-Rise Buyer’s Guide: The Entrance to High-Rise Living

By Jon Anderson / June 7, 2017 /

Welcome to Part Seven of CandysDirt.com’s Dallas High-Rise Buyer’s Guide.  We’ve covered a lot of turf so far. Thirty-Three high-rises in fact. We began with two columns discussing the merits of buildings that include utilities in their HOA dues (here, here). We moved on to the house porn of Dallas’ most expensive high-rises (here, here) before…

Dallas High-Rise Buyer’s Guide: Continuing Down the Middle of the Mid-Market

By Jon Anderson / May 31, 2017 /

I feel a little like Star Wars … Chapter Six: The Attack of the 1980s.  Yes, there have been five other installments in this series (and two to go).  The first two detailed the condos that include utilities in their HOA dues and those buildings north of Northwest Highway (here, here). Then it was upward…