Urban Living in Dallas

Tuesday Two Hundred: Starter Home Will Make You Jump for Joy on Jubilee Trail

By Candy Evans / October 18, 2011 /

3373 Jubilee Trail is a darling starter home in an area of Northwest Dallas that is growing hot with young starter families. This home has good bones, been somewhat updated, and sits on a lovely quarter acre corner lot with trees, brand new driveway and sidewalk, and a new cedar fence. Here’s what you get: four…

The Suburban Poor Doubled in North Texas Since 2007: My Fascination With Fate Real Estate

By Candy Evans / October 17, 2011 /

Note: According to the Brookings Institution, San Antonio, Texas is the only metro area in the U.S. where median income has risen since 2007. I am fascinated with a little town called Fate, Texas, about 30 miles east of Dallas. Couple reasons why. I think I wrote a story about Fate during the boom about it’s booming population.…

Gross House Department: Would You Buy A Mattress Boasting a Heart-Shaped Placenta Stain?

By Candy Evans / August 24, 2011 /

If this doesn’t cement the fact that Duxiana is the best bed ever,I do not know what will. OK, kind of weird-ass here, but bear with me. Have you ever slept at someones’ house (as I did recently) and changed the sheets, only to find the mattress pad was grotesquely stained? Now I am married to…

Austin Waters: A Darling of New Urbanism In Carrollton in for $240,000. Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / July 17, 2011 /

I have just heard about what everyone is calling “The Texas Hill Country” up in Carrollton — Darling Home’s Villas at Austin Waters. A friend who is downsizing tells me she is looking at a 2,600 square foot home there in the mid-$200,00o range that has blown her away: low maintenance, great  finish-out, and beautiful architectural…

Spelling Manor Sells & The Palomar Rises: Who Says The Kids Aren’t Buying Real Estate?

By Candy Evans / July 15, 2011 /

Who says the kids aren’t buying real estate? Candy Spelling closed on Spelling Manor, the most expensive real estate transaction in southern California and probably the U.S., the buyer rumored to be Petra Ecclestone, heiress to the Formula One racing empire and daughter of British billionaire Bernie Ecclestone.  Petra is all of 22 years old, by the…