Second Shelters

Friday Morning House Porn: Stacked, Stoked, and Staring At The Water

By Candy Evans / August 26, 2011 /

This baby at 6552 Lake Circle Drive in East Dallas is not even out of the oven yet, but she is already a beauty. Completion a few weeks off, she’ll be more than ready for the holidays. The home is located with wide, wide  frontage on Beard’s Branch & White Rock Creek, lot measuring 124 by…

Renter Nation: Do Leases Make Up One-Third of (Recent) Dallas Residential Real Estate Transactions?

By Candy Evans / August 26, 2011 /

That’s what I’m hearing about Dallas Real Estate and working to confirm. Washington D.C., and I guess President Obama, are getting their wish. The U.S. is turning into a nation of renters. Home leasing is up in Dallas by 13%. I WAS TOLD that 2000 of 6000 RE transactions in the first quarter were leases, or…

Arnold the Sperminator at Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance: Maybe My Second Home WILL Be a Car

By Candy Evans / August 25, 2011 /

Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance is like a SuperBowl for car enthusiasts. Me, I love vintage and collectible cars: love the lines, love the (revving) engines, love the interiors. Concours is a show and tell of whose collecting what and strutting the best. The grounds of the venerable Pebble Beach Golf Resort– the 18th hole of…

Welcoming McLaren to Dallas: If My Second Home Is Going To Be A Car, I’m Not Buying Till Park Place Premier Is Open

By Candy Evans / August 25, 2011 /

Guess what’s coming to Dallas this fall besides, hopefully, a nippier real estate market? The McLaren, over at Park Place. Park Place McLaren Dallas will be located along side the Park Place Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Maserati and Jaguar dealerships at 5300 Lemmon Ave. This new group of ultra-ultra- premium automotive brands, all of which were on display…

Finally! Cool-Air-In-Dallas House Porn: Blue, Blue My Love Is Blue

By Candy Evans / August 25, 2011 /

Trying to chill you down even more here with this gorgeous hunk of a house listed by Stevie Chaddick, who recently left Allie Beth Allman after yearsto sell real estate at Keller Williams Elite at Preston Center. (My psychic tells me many lunches at Sevys in my future now!) Excited for Stevie, but even more excited…