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Feeling Creative? Kessler Park Stone Cottage is a Fantastic Opportunity

By Joanna England | April 1, 2015 |

Talk about a home with raw potential! This 1940s stone-clad traditional is all about lines an angles, and has some features that will make you swoon for Kessler Park home. It’s on the market for the first time in 30 years, and it’s on a quiet cul-de-sac off one of the prettiest streets in the…

IBB Design Named Best Furniture Store in the Country

By Joanna England | April 1, 2015 |

Congratulations are in order for IBB Design Fine Furnishings and its owner/founder, Beth Rafferty. The 40,000-square-foot high-end home showroom with 28 talented interior designers won “Best Furniture Store in the Country” for the second year in a row at the ARTS Awards, one of the biggest awards programs in the home design industry. “Being recognized…

Dallas City Center’s Kevin Caskey Says School Ratings Will Influence Real Estate Values

By Joanna England | April 1, 2015 |

With the Texas legislature set to approve a new letter grading system that adds more clarity and precision to the TEA’s rating categories, Realtors are wondering how the new approval guide will affect housing prices. The measure just cleared the Senate and is headed for the house. Lake Highlands resident and Dallas City Center Realtors…

Realtors Keep Their Cars Clean, Tidy for Good Reasons, Report More Confidence

By Leah Shafer | April 1, 2015 |

If cleanliness is next to godliness, then Realtors may be in the running for one of the holiest professions because of their squeaky clean cars. Sure, it’s a bit of a stereotype to say Realtors have immaculate cars, but … isn’t it also sort of true? Curious, I set out to investigate this phenomenon and…

Developers Snap-up Crespi-Hicks Estate; Dallas to Get its First Costco

By Jon Anderson | April 1, 2015 |

In a shocking turn of events, the $100 million Crespi-Hicks estate has been sold to an anonymous shopping center developer. In a closed-door meeting with the City of Dallas, the plan was approved for a nearly 1 million-square-foot retail development to be anchored by Costco. The home had been on the market for several years…

Villas of Lake Highlands To Be Second David Weekley Development in East Dallas

By Leah Shafer | April 1, 2015 |

Houston-based David Weekley Homes is building their second community in East Dallas, with five houses ready for move-in this summer. Villas of Lake Highlands will be a private gated community of detached, single-family houses near White Rock Lake at E. Northwest Highway and Plano Road. At build-out, the development will have 80 houses. Prices start at $410,000 and the houses range…