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Ticket Giveaway: Win a Pair of Tickets to The Hollywood Home Tour April 21-22

By Joanna England | April 16, 2018 |

You know that Hollywood Heights is flush with some of the cutest cottages in all of Dallas. Thanks to the neighborhood’s well-thought-out conservation overlay, the homes in this popular East Dallas enclave still retain the charm of bygone eras. And your best bet to get an eyeful of that charm is attending the annual Hollywood…

Splurge vs Steal: Live Near Addison Circle In One of These Urban Condos

By Leah Shafer | April 16, 2018 |

Meridian Square is a new luxury condo development off Addison Circle with high-end finishes and a killer location just off the Dallas North Tollway.  The development itself has come to being in stages and they now offer or will offer an expansive communal courtyard with green spaces and brick-paved streets, a resort-style swimming pool, gardens,…

Mortgage Report: Bonds Weaken With News of Syria Bombing, Inflation

By Joanna England | April 16, 2018 |

There’s a lot of news for the market to digest, says our most-trusted mortgage expert, Bob Johnson (AKA BobMortgage), senior mortgage adviser at the nation’s oldest private lender, Wallick & Volk. Bonds fell through a key support level, and with news of President Trump’s decision to bomb Syria and the Fed’s watchdog-like concern regarding inflation,…

A Perfect Italian Villa in Old Preston Hollow

By Karen Eubank | April 16, 2018 |

When you travel to Tuscany, you cannot help but fall in love with the lifestyle, the landscape, and the architecture. It never leaves your soul. If you’re very lucky, you can take the latter two elements and recreate them. That is what the owners of 4655 Meadowood Road did, and they accomplished it in my…

Custom Barndominium on 10 Acres Offers Fab Vacation Home Close to Dallas

By Candy Evans | April 16, 2018 |

We see a lot of fabulous homes, but few grab our attention like a Pottsboro property that just hit the market, located about an hour north of Dallas. This is a perfect weekend house if we ever saw one!  The barndominium at 192 McClain Ln. is a sight to behold, an enchanting and unusual house made…

On SecondShelters.com: Bustling Inn in Guthrie Has Seen Fair Share of OK History

By Bethany Erickson | April 15, 2018 |

Eleven years before this week’s historical shelter was built, the town was a small railroad stop. In fact, Guthrie, Oklahoma, went from train stop to town of more 10,000 in six scant hours in 1889. That’s right — the April 1889 land run made Guthrie a boom town in less than a day. Because of that,…