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Preston Hollow Beautifully Renovated Ranch is Always Camera Ready

By Karen Eubank | July 7, 2016 |

It’s not often you see a house as beautifully photographed as 7015 Currin Drive. When it popped up on our screen this week, we dropped everything and called listing agent Pete Ryan with Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International to find out more about this three-bedroom, two-full-and-two-half-bath, camera-ready home in north Preston Hollow. It turns out the…

Oaklawn’s Turtle Creek Haus: Neighbors and Developers Take Steps in the Right Direction

By Jon Anderson | July 7, 2016 |

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the second meeting between local neighbors and Portugal’s Teixeira Duarte, Masterplan and architect Javier Espinoza, the team developing the so-named Turtle Creek Haus high-rise at Hood and Dickason in Oaklawn. Last night there was a third meeting and to borrow from Dan Savage, it got better. First,…

Stylish Interior Spaces, Luxe Amenities Elevate Our DFW Open Houses This Week

By Leah Shafer | July 7, 2016 |

We love bringing you an insider look at hot North Texas properties with our CandysDirt Open Houses of the Week column. Every Thursday, we pick five fabulous DFW open houses you shouldn’t miss. This week, our houses range in price from $549K to $1.32 million. You’ll find a range of properties, from a Coronado Hills cutie zoned for Lakewood Elementary to…

Midcentury-Inspired Northwest Dallas Home is Fun at Any Angle

By Joanna England | July 6, 2016 |

There’s only a very limited pool of midcentury modern homes in Dallas, and those that do hit the market tend to go quickly and for a premium. There’s a certain obsession with the architectural style, with low-pitched roofs, clerestory windows, and quirky floor plans. Often times, truly vintage midcentury modern homes have two problems: they…

EZ Stow Signs Local Business Looks to Go National with Realtor Sign Invention

By Leah Shafer | July 6, 2016 |

Conventional real estate signs are a necessary and familiar accessory for real estate agents. But they’re also kind of a pain. They’re big and bulky and don’t easily fit in most car trunks. The stakes can damage a car’s interior upholstery and seating. They’re dirty and muddy, and many agents have to pay someone to install and remove them. Longtime…

Patience Required in Navigating UK Real Estate Post-Brexit

By Jon Anderson | July 6, 2016 |

We live in a world of Chicken Littles, whereby the reactions to the slightest events become magnified to outlandish and irrational proportions. Mass shooting? Buy a gun. On June 23, the UK voted to leave the European Union and the world has barely taken a breath from all the crazy it unleashed. Me? I take…