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Monday Morning Millionaire: Make Your Primary Home a Vaca Pad — Santa Fe, Ole

By Candy Evans | June 24, 2013 |

It’s June, and we are knee-deep in summer vacation. Why not retain that summer home feeling YEAR ROUND with a home that looks like a vacation home? That way you get a little vaca every day! I often joke that Santa Fe is a bedroom community of Dallas. Well, it is. American has non-stop flights…

Are You Renovating This Summer? Zillow Survey Shows 60 Percent of America Will

By Joanna England | June 24, 2013 |

I guess I fall in to the 60 percent of Americans who will be renovating their homes this summer. We’ve already had some work done on our back deck, as well as some landscaping. Sure, it’s no tear-down, but it makes us happy! What Zillow discovered during its Zillow Digs Summer Home Improvement Trend and Spending…

Dallas Luxury Real Estate Forum: Five Folks Who Move With The Big Boys (and Girls) Set to Speak

By Candy Evans | June 24, 2013 |

Is your agent doing everything he or she can to sell your multi-million dollar property? Or, for that matter, your $300K starter home? So there is a chi chi Realtor event tomorrow at the Park Cities Club, sponsored by Chicago Title and WR Starkey Mortgage, with Laurie Moore of the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing.…

Home of Fort Worth Civic Legend, Ruth Carter Stevenson, Demolished Despite Preservationists' Objections

By Joanna England | June 24, 2013 |

Yikes. This dramatic episode sounds a lot like Mark and Patricia Lovvorn’s campaign to take a wrecking ball to Stanley Marcus’ historic Nonesuch Road home. Except, well, preservationists were actually able to stop the owners from tearing down that house. The modernist former home of Ruth Carter Stevenson, daughter of Star-Telegram publisher Amon G. Carter,…

Home of Fort Worth Civic Legend, Ruth Carter Stevenson, Demolished Despite Preservationists’ Objections

By Joanna England | June 24, 2013 |

Yikes. This dramatic episode sounds a lot like Mark and Patricia Lovvorn’s campaign to take a wrecking ball to Stanley Marcus’ historic Nonesuch Road home. Except, well, preservationists were actually able to stop the owners from tearing down that house. The modernist former home of Ruth Carter Stevenson, daughter of Star-Telegram publisher Amon G. Carter,…

SecondShelters.com: Dreaming of Mexico's Pacific Coast

By Joanna England | June 21, 2013 |

  We have a fabulous Top-5 Friday over at Second Shelters today profiling some of the great values and even better vacation homes for sale in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. This is such a gem of a town, and we’re sure you’ll love it as much as we do!