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Update: the house closes on Friday! Stay tuned for an interview with the new owners! Remember the story in the Dallas Morning News, fall ’06, way before pay walls and the market crash about the once-glamorous model, Mary Ellen Bendtsen, with a big home on Swiss Avenue? She was reportedly coerced by two designers, Mark McCay and…
Look at this adorable mid century steeped, just dang Lipton-tea steeped in the 1960’s. In fact, when I saw the photos of the bathroom at 2922 Gladiolus — Ed Murchison, my mid century modern genius, always loads up lots of photos, even of the commodes — I had deja vue. It reminded me of all…
Talk about the most perfect first, second or third home ever. Oh my, recall when I wrote about The Glass House? I called it Stairway to Heaven. That ultimate redefining structure within modernism? Not only does it have great bones, it has location squared. A 3.5 acre estate of oak groves in Montecito, California. The home…
Susan Knape of Dallas, Texas thought she was doing something smart: paying AHEAD on her mortgage. In fact, if you open your mortgage statement each month, I will bet you the paperwork is right there in the envelope popping out. I’m talking about the equity accelerator programs offered by JP Morgan Chase, Well Fargo, Citibank…
Susan Knape of Dallas, Texas thought she was doing something smart: paying AHEAD on her mortgage. In fact, if you open your mortgage statement each month, I will bet you the paperwork is right there in the envelope popping out. I’m talking about the equity accelerator programs offered by JP Morgan Chase, Well Fargo, Citibank…
Your home value could be 4.3 % lower today than it was last year if you follow the guys over at Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller, which released their Home Price Index this week. That means home prices have been falling for an entire year in the 20 major U.S. cities that create this way over-quoted housing market indicator. Case-Shiller…
