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Did the Flower Mound House Squatter Pay The Property Taxes on 2205 Waterford Drive?

By Candy Evans | February 5, 2012 |

Update: I’m stalking the Squatter. Saturday night I drove up to Flower Mound to see if there were any lights in the house at 2205 Waterford (really nice ‘hood, Robinson’s house is one home in from a major street) and there were none on. Snooped in the mailbox — no mail. Quiet as a church…

Susan B. Komen’s Nancy Brinker Slept Here When She Lived in Dallas. Old Preston Hollow, Of Course, In a Home Come Full Circle

By Candy Evans | February 4, 2012 |

I have this thing about homes and real estate, obviously. Not only do I like to know the stories inside every house — the tales of the sale — I also like to know the house behind prominent people. Like Nancy Goodman Leitstein Brinker. She has really been in the news lately, with the controversy over abortion funding/non-funding/maybe-funding of breast exams at her org, the Susan B. Komen Foundation, arguably one of the most powerful charities of the 20th century. It was named for her sister who died of breast cancer. Nancy is a breast cancer survivor. Brinker is being cast as a Dallas gal, though she was really born in Peoria, Illinois, which is south of Chicago and considered “downstate”. Her father was a commercial real estate developer there, Marvin L. Goodman.

Friday Five Hundred: 6233 Goliad Might Take No Prisoners, But Reduced to $549K, It’s Getting an Army of Interest for Super Bowl Sunday

By Candy Evans | February 3, 2012 |

This is a practically brand new Lakewood Heights home that has just gone on the market. If you like new Craftsman construction, and I do, you will LOVE this. I am also obsessed with the rock that was chosen for interior accents and exteriors. Love the wood floors, too. The 3700 plus square foot home was built three years ago by a local investment group who then leased it for three years. Look what all you get at this price PLUS new construction:

Victory’s The House by Phillipe Starck May Be Heading to Biggest Residential Foreclosure in Dallas History

By Candy Evans | February 3, 2012 |

Steve Brown says the 28-story residential downtown tower styled by French designer Philippe Starck with 130 units is heading for foreclosure, and it could be one of the largest in Dallas history. “I think it’s the biggest residential foreclosure posting we’ve ever had in Dallas,” George Roddy, president of Addison-based Foreclosure Listing Service, which reported the filing,…

Fame Put on Foundation Here: Dallas’s Mary Kay Ash Home Hits the Real Estate Market Once Again, This Time a Steal at $3.3

By Candy Evans | February 2, 2012 |

For more details and all the local Dallas Real estate News, click on over to www.CandysDirt.com Karen Luter of Allie Beth Allman tells me she has been working her fingers to the bone for weeks trying to get this home ready for sale. Will be in MLS next week. Not much besides the price has…

The Pink Mary Kay House on Douglas Avenue is Coming Back on the Market!

By Candy Evans | February 2, 2012 |

UPDATE: Karen tells me listing price is $3,300,000, which is less than DCAD value — unreal! Listed with precious Karen Luter of Allie Beth Allman, who tells me she has been working her fingers to the bone for weeks trying to get this home ready for sale. Not in MLS yet, and not much has changed…