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Before and After: Trophy Club Traditional Undergoes Transformation of a Lifetime

By Amy Puchaty | October 4, 2017 |

Get out your pocketbooks folks, this one will go fast! Feast your eyes on this impeccably remodeled family home in idyllic Trophy Club, just listed for $475,000, by Mindy Niehaus of Century 21 Nathan Grace Fine Homes & Estates. Here at CandysDirt.com, we love a good before and after, and this one does not disappoint! Niehaus,…

A Well-Rounded Preston Hollow Home Designed By Frank L. Meier

By Joanna England | October 4, 2017 |

Before there ever was a pink mansion on Douglas Avenue, Mary Kay Ash and her husband, Mel Ash, conscripted modernist architect Frank L. Meier to design a home for them. The site — a private, picturesque lake in Preston Hollow — was the perfect place to craft reality from a dream. That dream was for…

Wednesday WTF: Want Your Own Cave? You’re in Spelunk.

By Bethany Erickson | October 4, 2017 |

Do you want to live the desert? Do you like caves? Do you ever sit in your house and think, “I like this place alright, but if I could have a massive cave, it would be so much better?” Our Wednesday WTF is for you.

Neighborhood Spotlight: Midway Hollow Had a Very Dallas Beginning

By Bethany Erickson | October 4, 2017 |

If a town hitting its peak is a boomtown, would a neighborhood like Midway Hollow, with its bustling mix of newcomers and longtime residents, be considered a boom-hood? There are 2,600 homes in the neighborhood, which is bordered by Midway Road, Walnut Hill Lane, Marsh Lane, and Northwest Highway. Midway Hollow’s ties to Dallas history…

Ebby Halliday Companies Continue to Dominate DFW Real Estate Market

By Candy Evans | October 4, 2017 |

Lots of real estate brokerages try to claim a top spot in DFW, but numbers don’t lie. The sales volume of the Ebby Halliday Companies puts them in the No. 1 spot in North Texas, with $7.8 billion in 2016 sales, according to MLS data.  Comprised of Dallas-based Ebby Halliday Realtors and Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate, as well as Fort…

JP and Associates Acquires Austin’s Private Label Realty

By Candy Evans | October 4, 2017 |

I remember the first time I met J.P. Piccinini at his office in Plano. He was hosting a Realtor event, a ribbon cutting, with special guest Fredrick Eklund, the Swedish-born New York City real estate broker, Bravo TV reality star of Million Dollar Listing,  former IT entrepreneur in his native Sweden, and non-fiction writer. He told me to go get a…