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Enamoured on Ervay: Who Says You Can’t Own in Downtown Dallas for Less Than $225,000?

By Candy Evans | July 11, 2011 |

This is one of those rare, one-of-a-kind homes that has been published  and will probably be under contract by the time you read this post. Built in 2007, the creative art-director owners snapped up this newly constructed, loaded, two-bedroom, 1608 square foot two story townhome and immediately set to customizing and re-designing it from the…

Former Dallas Mayor Steve Bartlett’s New Second Home in the Texas Hill Country

By Candy Evans | July 11, 2011 |

Steve Bartlett, remember him? He was on the Dallas City Council from 1977 to 1981, represented some of us in Congress, and is now President and CEO of The Financial Services Roundtable, a lobbying group for several prestigious financial services companies. OMG, politics to lobbying, who’d a thunk it? Membership consists of 100 financial companies including Wells Fargo,…

Designer’s Corner: Tiffany McKinzie On the Faux, Faux World of Vacation Homes

By Candy Evans | July 10, 2011 |

There are many wonderful things about utilizing faux finishes when designing a second residence.  Often second residences are vacation homes and lend themselves to be more “theme” inspired, i.e.: a beach house or a mountain home, decorated top to bottom in a style that speaks to the environment.  People typically have more creative leeway for…

Open House Sunday: Did Brangelina Lease This Beverly Drive Mansion During SuperBowl?

By Candy Evans | July 10, 2011 |

The rumor was rampant in Dallas Real Estate circles last winter that Angelina Jolie, Brad and all the kiddos had leased this house — 3911 Beverly Drive — for the weekend while in town for the Super Bowl.  If so, someone ought to ring up Mr. and Mrs. Pitt and tell them the place is now even…

Real Estate Values in Dallas Projected To Go Up, and Texas is the Darling of the Economy

By Candy Evans | July 8, 2011 |

No, I have not been drinking. No, this is not one of those Realtor sites where I’m going to tell you this is the best time to buy a home, that prices are going up up up the moment the clock strikes midnight. But I was pleasantly surprised to read that Dallas is one of…

Time to Go Shopping For a Second Home In Chi-Town — King of Foreclosure City!

By Candy Evans | July 8, 2011 |

Boarded up brownstones in Cicero I never thought I’d see the city of my birth blow out Miami and Phoenix when it comes to having the most foreclosures in the nation right now, but Chicago takes the cake. Almost 119,000 homes in foreclosure. The problem: those stubborn banks are not letting go. This, of course,…