Luxury Real Estate
According to a brand new investigative report from KXAN in Austin, Dallas-based Bella Vita Custom Homes has declared bankruptcy. The builder, after failing to pay subcontractors and losing vast sums of client money, has permanently closed and remains a target in lawsuits. Bella Vita was founded in Dallas in 2010, with its trademark white crest…
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In fifteen more days Andy Beal will have owned the Hicks Crespi Estate, aka Walnut Place, for a whole year. My how time flies. This was the biggest real estate transaction in Dallas last year, and in the state until the sale of the Waggoner Ranch in Vernon, Texas. Of course, Waggoner is practically its…
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[Editor’s Note: The penthouse unit perched atop the Ritz Residences has been in headlines recently, and Jon just showed off the unit of the penthouse buyers, also in the Ritz and marketed by the one and only Sharon Quist. We reported on the former home of billionaire Trevor Rees-Jones on Aug. 28 of last year.…
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Just as in Scrabble, where the two highest-point tiles are Q and Z, buyers talking to Sharon Quist about the Ritz Residences also score big. Quist, along with co-listing agent Kathy Myers, is fresh off her record-breaking sale of the Trevor Rees-Jones Ritz penthouse, last listed at $7.5 million. Quist was not only co-lister but…
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We all know that anything under $1 million is flying off the MLS faster than a Cabbage Patch Kid in the 1980s. In the $1 million-plus market, homes are still flying off the shelves like Cabbage Patch Kids … in 2016. Sure they’re still selling, but no one is getting trampled. This sentiment was echoed…
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