Lake Homes

Monday Morning Millionaire: Ivy League New England Sensibility is Alive and Well in Dallas!

By Candy Evans / April 30, 2012 /

No other home I can think of typifies this great compliment to our city like 11442 East Ricks Circle. OK, I’m a wee bit biased as this home is in my ‘hood and I walk by it’s glory every time I walk Bree on the Circle. This is a one-owner home, built brand spanking new and solid in 1990, and it has never been on the market.

A Lake Home for Your Second Home: Fun at Lake Cypress Springs

By Candy Evans / July 25, 2011 /

We just returned from a spectacular weekend with friends Gary and Laurie Tipton at their beautiful home, “Tip’s Lodge” on Lake Cypress Springs. I want a lake house. Full disclosure: I’m looking at Beacon Hill, too, on Cedar Creek Lake. It’s a little closer in, and the developer is creating one of the most magnificent lake…

More Free Tickets to the Park Cities Historic and Preservation Society Home Tour Next Weekend!

By Candy Evans / March 29, 2011 /

All the second homes in Destin, Port Aransas or Pebble Beach could not pull me away from next Saturday’s Park Cities Historic and Preservation Society‘s Spring home tour. That’s April 2, 2011, from 10 am – 4 pm. The owners of six gloriously historic and architecturally significant Park Cities homes will toss open their doors…

The Best Places in America for Second Homes

By Candy Evans / March 8, 2011 /

Barrons is bragging how they called it: the second home market has bottomed, and the rich are out swooping up the bargains. Prices of high-end second homes have sunk, some as low as 40%. And Barrons lists the top second home markets in the US. Sea Island, Georgia was rated number one. Next comes Maui,…

Trouble Selling That Second Home? Don’t Agonize, Fractionalize

By Candy Evans / February 18, 2011 /

A Muksego, Wisconson couple fed up with the housing market are now trying to sell their vacation home north of Chicago by fractionalizing it. The 1,800-square-foot ranch which they bought in 1999 is a 1950’s era on a three-acre¬†island in¬†Little Muskego¬†Lake, pictured here. Now they want the cash out for another project so instead of…