Vacation Properties

‘Gentleman’s Farm’ Is the Perfect East Texas Luxury Family Retreat

By Brenda Masse / March 18, 2026 /

We’ve got something really special for the Spring Break edition of our Highlight Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters, senior loan officer at First Horizon. And quite frankly, I wish I were writing this while perched on the front porch of this pristine East Texas vacation home instead of watching my kids jump…

Jason Castro Invites You to Get Away From Dallas This Summer With Castro Stays

By Brenda Masse / June 4, 2023 /

You’ve probably seen Jason Castro and Castro Property Group featured here on CandysDirt.com. Castro made a big splash in Dallas-Fort Worth real estate, especially in East Dallas early in his career, eventually starting Castro Property Group at Coldwell Banker Realty in 2019. Since then, Castro’s creative roots are showing as he continues to expand his…

Are You Listening, Prosper? A Montana Family Provides Blueprint on Saving Silos

By Tommy Cummings / September 29, 2021 /

The 179,000-member Rustic Cabins & Wood Decor group on Facebook recently trotted out a cool-looping post showing repurposed silos into weekend cabins in Kalispell, Montana.

This Second Home Escape in Steamboat Springs Just Set Sales Records

By CandysDirt / July 7, 2021 /

For years, we’ve kept tabs on Alpine Mountain Ranch & Club and in that time, we’ve seen homesites sell pretty briskly. Until 2020. The luxury ranch community experienced unprecedented sales volume last year with 10 homesites and custom homes sold. That momentum continues to build with nine homesite sales already in 2021, including the pending closing…

SnowMass Village is Gearing Up for $600 Million Base Village Makeover This Winter…

By Candy Evans / September 7, 2018 /

We are here doing a site visit, and very impressed with the extent of the work going on to create an entirely new Base Village at Snowmass Village, one of the country’s top ski areas right around the mountain from Aspen. SnowMass and Aspen ski resorts share the same mountains and climate — 300 plus…