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Key Residential Wows With Modern Upgrade to 90-Year Old Home

By Amy Dobson | July 2, 2018 |

We’re back with another look at the creative problem-solving that Candy’s Dirt Approved Builder Key Residential put in to practice for a home built in 1929. The old brick colonial had undergone multiple renovations during its lifetime and had too much of a piecemeal layout after all the disparate projects. The goal? To create a cohesive…

Splurge vs Steal: Lovers Lane Heights

By Leah Shafer | July 2, 2018 |

Near Inwood Village, the Lovers Lane Heights neighborhood is seeing a lot of attention as flippers and builders approach the area to make their mark. In today’s Splurge vs Steal, we’re looking at two lovelies in Lovers Lane Heights. Which one is your favorite?   

On SecondShelters.com: Horseshoe Bay Home Is a Fourth of July Firecracker

By Amy Puchaty | July 2, 2018 |

It has been featured on the cover of Metropolitan Home. It sits on a .64-acre lot on the shores of Lake LBJ. It has a Horseshoe Bay address with lagoon-style pool, stunning live oak trees, and mature green space. This listing is hotter than a firecracker, and it’s currently on the market for a cool…

Bluffview’s Architect-Designed Texas Regional Modern

By Karen Eubank | July 2, 2018 |

You don’t see a Texas Regional Modern hit the market very often. Our Monday Morning Millionaire at 5006 Shadywood Lane in the Sunnybrook Estates neighborhood of Bluffview offers a rare opportunity to own the home of an architect. Remember what we always tell you about buying an architect or builder’s own home? Do not pass go, stop…

North Oak Cliff Development Update Part 3: Townhomes Galore

By Amanda Popken | July 2, 2018 |

This is about to become a common sight in our beloved Bishop Arts District neighborhood. In fact this sight is just off Bishop, across from the Laughing Willow. There are demo’d vacant lots in the middle of neighborhoods all over North Oak Cliff’s most popular entertainment district. I’ve found three new ones within the last…

Oak Lawn Neighborhood Peace Pierced by Barrage of Early Morning Gunfire

By Bethany Erickson | July 1, 2018 |

Sharmin Ashtaputre’s family has never really felt unsafe in their Oak Lawn Heights neighborhood in the four years they’ve lived there. But early Sunday morning, that sense of safety was shattered as bullets rained down in their daughter’s nursery. “At 5:30 a.m. today, we were woken up by what sounded like fireworks,” Ashtaputre said. “Well,…