Real Estate

Friday Four Hundred: for the Contemporary Cult Who Wants Water — Stone, Stucco, Steam, a Spectacular North Dallas Palace!

By Candy Evans / June 14, 2012 /

Another beautiful home that just makes me DROOL hit MLS at 10 a.m. this morning, and I cannot wait ’til Friday to show it to you. I’m like a kid who gets a toy and has to unwrap it in the car: I can’t wait ’till I get home with this one. 7014 Duffield is…

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Thursday Three Hundred Two-fer: Keep Your Family Close With These Stevens Park Estates Homes

By Joanna England / June 14, 2012 /

Jenni Stolarski and Rob Puckett of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s are marketing two Stevens Park Village homes that back up to one another and sit on the fifth green of Stevens Park Golf Course —2036 Old Orchard and 2041 Mayflower — as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a family to be really close without moving in with each other.

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Turn to TNT Tonight For Dallas Premiere, And Check Out The Plano Home That Housed Plenty Ewing Family Drama

By Joanna England / June 13, 2012 /

Tonight’s premiere of the TNT relaunch of Dallas will afford you a unique opportunity to preview the Plano home where the Ewing family double-cross one another.

According to Cody Baker of Ebby, Mary Jo Pope of the Paulette Greene Group has the listing where tons of scenes were shot. Why was the Willow Bend Country home chosen?

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One of My Fave Dallas Real Estate Agents Reports From Hanover, New Hampshire: Animal House Lives On

By Candy Evans / June 13, 2012 /

I have told you that I have an extremely soft spot for Dartmouth men. They would be my husband, John Sughrue (Harvard first, won’t hold that against him, but holds an M.B.A. from Dartmouth), Maxwell Anderson, Mickey Stuart, boyfriends in my past, and of course, Allie Beth Allman’s Ira Archer. Ira is up in Hanover…

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The Home With the Messiest Title in Texas: Trial Underway for Man Who Tried to Swindle 4949 Swiss Ave from Dallas Woman

By Candy Evans / June 13, 2012 /

This dilapidated, once elegant mansion has been the focal point of poignant legal battles since the death of the owner, Mary Ellen Bendtsen, in 2005. Agents tell me it may have the messiest title in Texas. This week, legal justice may be coming. Three men, including two Dallas antique dealers who prosecutors claim conspired to take advantage of Bendtsen’s mental state and her kindness right at her deathbed, go to trial in Dallas County.

Yesterday was day one in court for Mark McCay, age 50, who is accused of attempted theft. Prosecutors say he weaseled power of attorney from 88-year-old Bendtsen after alienating her from her family, and persuaded her to leave the Swiss Ave. house to him and his partner. Bendtsen signed her will in her hospital bed at Baylor. The defense says no, McCay and “the boys” befriended and entertained Bendtsen ten years before her death.

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