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Energy Transfer Partners Closes $5.5 Billion Deal With Sunoco: Hello Dallas, That’s Klyde Warren’s Dad

By Candy Evans | October 7, 2012 |

I recall hearing about this, but it didn’t resonate until I saw it in Bloomberg: Our Energy Transfer Partners, as in Kelcy Warren and his son Klyde, who has a downtown Dallas park named after him, now heads a dang big company that includes more pipeline than Larry Ellison has homes. Energy Transfer Partners has…

Friday Five Hundred: Looking For a Ranch With Drama? Feast Your Eyes on This Bob-O-Link Downs Home!

By Joanna England | October 5, 2012 |

Seriously, 6623 Winton has so much character and really, tons of DRAMA! This home has been completely renovated from top to bottom and even inside out (check out that stone pathway!) and feels thoroughly modern. You get Lakewood schools (Dallas ISD) and 2,456 square feet for just $574,900.

More Museum Tower Drama: Washington’s Cultural Landscape Foundation Puts Nasher on ‘Endangered List,’ Blames Museum Tower

By Joanna England | October 4, 2012 |

The plot thickens! The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Washington-based center bent on “increasing the public’s awareness and understanding of the importance and irreplaceable legacy of its cultural landscapes,” has included the Nasher Sculpture Garden in their Landslide 2012 list of endangered cultural landscapes.  In 2012 construction was completed of a high-rise condominium overlooking the Nasher Museum…

It’s My Mansion: $100,000 Homes. Here’s Granite, Gleaming Hardwoods, and a Great Dallas, Texas Yard for $109K

By Candy Evans | October 4, 2012 |

Readers have written with many requests — so many houses to tour — and we really try to honor them all, see them all. I’ve been a bit preoccupied lately with a family wedding — that’s me at our fabulous rehearsal dinner, below, at Eddie Deen’s. And I cannot say enough wonderful things about my son and daughter-in-law’s wedding or her wedding coordinator, Rebecca Hackl, Rebecca Hackl Events, who I call “J-Lo” because she is so darn adorable. But last week the ninth person offered up this suggestion — more of a challenge, really, especially to a new Monster-In-Law:

Thursday Three Hundred: Need Some Room to Breathe? Casa Linda Estates Cutie Has a Huge Lot, Tons of Living Space

By Joanna England | October 4, 2012 |

I love finding a great house in my neck of the woods. This Casa Linda Estates house just hit the market and it is perfect. I bet this three-bedroom, two-bath house at 9815 Redondo will go fast, too. It’s marketed at $349,900 by Ebby agent Brian Parker. This house, built in 1945, is completely remodeled…

Real Estate So Hot, The Wall Street Journal Is Expanding Coverage to Their “Mansion”

By Candy Evans | October 4, 2012 |

All we hear is how print is dying, but the Wall Street Journal plows ahead. The smarty pants at the Wall Street Journal announce a significant beefing up of global (and all) real estate coverage beginning this Friday. Oh and guess what: it’s going to be on mobile and the ipad, too. Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of Dow Jones & Company and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, says what I have believed for years: “We all like to think of our home as a mansion, even if it is a humble abode, and we all have the license to aspire, so we have created Mansion to be the home of both aspiration and real estate realization.”