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Can’t $top, Won’t $top: Dallas Luxury Home Sales Rake in Big Numbers for 2015

By Joanna England | January 25, 2016 |

Demand for high-end dirt in Texas was quite robust in 2015, according to the just-released 2016 Texas Luxury Home Sales Report from the Texas Association of Realtors. Dallas luxury home sales and Fort Worth high-end real estate sales grew by 12.4 percent from January to October 2015, with 1,088 homes priced at $1 million or more…

This New Darling of Devonshire Just Packs it All In… With Pretty Punch!

By Candy Evans | January 22, 2016 |

Devonshire is really an amazing Dallas Real Estate story. The sleepy little enclave of post World War II bungalows and 1950’s ranches housed many a happy family who treasured the trees and loved being minutes from Love Field, a few miles up from downtown just off Lover’s Lane. Which was once, actually, a quiet lane…

Top Ten 2016 Homebuilding Trends From DFW’s Leading Builders

By Leah Shafer | January 22, 2016 |

The 2015 real estate market in Dallas-Fort Worth went down in the books as the best in three decades, and year-end housing construction numbers placed Dallas as one of the country’s top building markets. North Texas is headquarters to some enormously talented (and busy!) builders. We’ve asked the best and brightest among them to tell us their predictions for 2016 homebuilding trends.…

Friday Four Hundred: It’s Flipping in Lochwood With Winning Results

By Joanna England | January 22, 2016 |

I am constantly amazed at how fast some homes in East Dallas neighborhoods are selling. Apparently, this great success is also catching the attention of investors who are buying up properties thirty or forty years into their lives and turning them at a breakneck pace. So, you’ll start to see more and more homes like…

Shots Fired at Joggers This Morning in Preston Royal Hillcrest

By Candy Evans | January 22, 2016 |

This news is just making the social media circuits, and I confirmed it with a DPD officer. In the 6100 block of Royalton, a woman reports she was  “running this morning with two other girls around 6:20 a.m. when someone in a car shot at us. This happened at the corner of Royalton and Azalea…

8100 Lomo Alto: The Next Preston Center Domino to Fall?

By Jon Anderson | January 22, 2016 |

In researching the latest doings at Preston Center, I also delved into the zoning maps handily provided by the Task Force. They show that St. Michael’s parking lot on Frederick Square is currently zoned straight MF-1(A) which limits height to 36 feet (three stories). However, the other end of that block contains 8100 Lomo Alto…