Real Estate

Inwood Home of the Week: If the Tributes on Hunger Games Were to Fight for a Property, This Valley Ridge Mansion Would Be It

By Candy Evans / January 15, 2014 /

This 7362 square foot estate is located on one of the most coveted blocks in Dallas. There’s Beverly Drive and Park Lane, Strait Lane and St. Johns, Armstrong Parkway, Alice Circle and Lexington. Those are all wonderful streets. Then there is 4631 Valley Ridge. On Valley Ridge. This home, like  the neighborhood, is dripping with high…

Acre’s New High: After 2.5 Years on Market, Park Lane Lot Finds Happy Buyer

By Candy Evans / January 15, 2014 /

Get out your pens, folks, here is another market bellwether: 5020 Park Lane. On the market for 2.5 years. Could be because the seller listened to her psychic, not her trusted agent, when it came to pricing and set the price for the 1.12 acre lot at $3,595,000 and launched the listing when Mercury was…

Acre's New High: After 2.5 Years on Market, Park Lane Lot Finds Happy Buyer

By Candy Evans / January 15, 2014 /

Get out your pens, folks, here is another market bellwether: 5020 Park Lane. On the market for 2.5 years. Could be because the seller listened to her psychic, not her trusted agent, when it came to pricing and set the price for the 1.12 acre lot at $3,595,000 and launched the listing when Mercury was…

Leaving on a Jet Plane to Visit Casa Santuario in Austin. $15 Million. No Reserve

By Candy Evans / January 15, 2014 /

Your’s truly is joining this fine group of Allie Beth Allman Urban agents plus designer extraordinaire Barry Williams, jetting down to Austin Wednesday on Southwest Air Lines. Who knows? Maybe we’ll end up in Cancun? We are going down to see a most extraordinary listing, the $15 million dollar Casa Santuario in Austin Texas. This…

The Side-Effects of Gentrification: Should Urban Pioneers Feel Threatened When Living in The ‘Hood Goes Mainstream

By Joanna England / January 14, 2014 /

Candy and I have been discussing this very interesting long-form story from BuzzFeed about a man who bought a home in Detroit’s Poletown neighborhood for $500 when he was 23 years old. Since then, protesters, investors, and CEOs have bought up property throughout Detroit’s devastated neighborhoods, demolishing buildings and shrinking the city’s footprint.