News

Broker’s Open is Sept. 24 at a Luxury Lake Home in the Shores in Lakewood Village

By Karen Eubank | September 17, 2024 |

If you are looking for a little slice of paradise, you’ve found it. Beautifully positioned on the shores of Lewisville Lake in the exclusive Shores Estate section lies the loveliest and most recognizable luxury lake home you’ve ever seen. “Everyone knows this home,” Ebby Halliday-Frisco Realtor Judi Wright said. A metal cupola with a captain’s…

Who’s Afraid of ForwardDallas? These Residents Say You Should Be

By April Towery | September 17, 2024 |

Who’s afraid of a little ol’ land use plan? Well, for starters, a resident who has a five-story apartment building overlooking her backyard. An architect who thinks the plan should be scrapped and the process restarted from scratch. A Park and Recreation Board member who doesn’t want multiplexes in single-family neighborhoods. A woman who lives…

Dallas Council Could Revisit Short-Term Rental Ordinance: ‘It’s Not Working’

By April Towery | September 17, 2024 |

Short-term rentals are operating legally within Dallas neighborhoods while the matter is under legal injunction but the action approved by the City Council in June 2023 is punishing good operators and “isn’t working,” Councilman Chad West said during a Monday meeting of the Quality of Life, Arts, and Culture Committee.  Last year the CIty Council…

Ewers Group: Buzz of Development in Dallas Medical District and Las Colinas

By Shelby Skrhak | September 16, 2024 |

Join Candy Evans on this episode of Dallas Dirt as she interviews the dynamic real estate duo, Brit Ewers and Zach Staats of the Ewers team. Specializing in Las Colinas, Irving, and Dallas, Britt and Zach share their journey of real estate mastery, from their beginnings to their innovative marketing strategies. Discover insights into the…

Resident Volunteers Wrote the ForwardDallas Housing Component, and No One Gives a CLUP

By April Towery | September 16, 2024 |

Occasionally when someone brings up the “socialist city planners” who secretly crafted Dallas’ comprehensive land use plan update over witch’s brew, I’m reminded of something Nathaniel Barrett told me in August 2023.  A 15-member panel of volunteers, the Comprehensive Land Use Plan Committee (CLUP), actually had significant input in drafting the ForwardDallas 2.0 plan as…

Inspiration For a University Park Cape Cod From Regan Carlile and Chad Dorsey

By Karen Eubank | September 16, 2024 |

Beyond price and location, when we look for a home, we’re all looking for inspiration. There are no two people more qualified to bring us inspiration than Regan Carlile and Chad Dorsey. And boy, have they brought it to us with this two-story traditional University Park Cape Cod Cottage. The 4,060-square-foot home, built in 1940,…