Second Shelters

Thinking of a $35 Million Chateau for a Second Home? This Auction’s For You

By Candy Evans / February 28, 2012 /

I got the confirmation while skiing in Park City, Utah. Dallas listing agent Joan Eleazer with Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s has confirmed that Champ D’Or, the 48,000 square foot Turbeville Road mansion up in Hickory Creek, near Denton and north of Dallas, French baroque castle meets Plano McMansion dream chateau, clearly the most outrageous home in…

Not Just A Second Home: Hunter Mahan and Bride Building 19,000 Square Feet in Dallas Love Nest, er, Chateau

By Candy Evans / February 16, 2012 /

Golfing hottie Hunter and his bride, former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Kandi (Harris) are building a 19,000 plus square foot home in The Creeks of Preston Hollow. The mega mansion at 10719 Bridge Hollow will not only have underground parking, it will have an underground basketball court! Hunter’s home in Colleyville, (pictured here) meantime, remains on the market at $1,499,999. The 7105 Vanguard (Colleyville) home is just about the value of Hunter’s one-acre Bridge Hollow lot over there at Royal and Inwood. DCAD has it valued at $1.2 plus just for the dirt. He and Kandi bought it in November of 2010. Estimated taxes are $33,000 for starters… I cannot even begin to think what his property taxes will be one that puppy is complete!

Big Is Back: Living Large Never Went Out of Style When It Comes to Second Homes

By Candy Evans / February 14, 2012 /

Read this story on CandysDirt about how the rich seem to be accelerating the size and scope of their new homes. Then know this: whatever is happening to the primary home market is being mimic’ed in second and third homes. Prices may be soft, but the rich are getting out their checkbooks for beach homes…

Had a Party for Cinnamon Shore, and Guess Who Came on Over? Ebby!

By Candy Evans / February 5, 2012 /

For deets on the best little beachfront community to hit Port Arasas and the Texas coast since, well, forever, click over and check out our second home blog SecondShelters.com (see the handy-dandy link to the right?) And yes, even Ebby Halliday came and dipped her toes in the water!

Fame Put on Foundation Here: Dallas’s Mary Kay Ash Home Hits the Real Estate Market Once Again, This Time a Steal at $3.3

By Candy Evans / February 2, 2012 /

For more details and all the local Dallas Real estate News, click on over to www.CandysDirt.com Karen Luter of Allie Beth Allman tells me she has been working her fingers to the bone for weeks trying to get this home ready for sale. Will be in MLS next week. Not much besides the price has…