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Real Estate Marketing Magic: B-12 Shots and Clinic Concierge Help Sell a Wellness Estate

By Candy Evans | September 9, 2024 |

How Leading Agents are Marketing — No Cold Plunge, Please! It seems like it was 100 years ago that I wrote my first story on luxury agents selling luxury homes lavishly. It was an elegant event hosted by Dave Perry-Miller himself at the Dechard home on Hollow Way Drive. Dave had cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, Jags…

A Unique Approach to Development Creates Value for Homeowners and Cities Long Term

By CandysDirt | September 8, 2024 |

New construction homes present a unique opportunity to prospective homebuyers seeking relief from mortgage rate uncertainty, as builders can offer incentives and flexibility in closings. Furthermore, new construction homes in a master-planned community provide some of the much-desired lifestyle amenities with strategies for lot sizes that maintain affordability while not sacrificing lifestyle. In RCLCO real…

Open House Today: A $1.4M Home on Eagle Mountain Lake Will Make You Feel Like You’re Always on Vacation

By April Towery | September 8, 2024 |

One thing is for sure at this stunning Lakeside Drive home on Fort Worth’s Eagle Mountain Lake: You won’t have to go far to feel like you’re on vacation.  The three-bedroom, three-and-one-half-bathroom abode at 11017 Lakeside Drive hit the market about three months ago.  Seller Michael Hrenko is only the second person to own the home…

Michael Amonett: North Oak Cliff Residents Don’t Want Rezoning at Clarendon and Edgefield

By CandysDirt.com Contributor | September 8, 2024 |

By Michael AmonettCandysDirt.com Contributor Thursday’s community meeting about rezoning Clarendon Drive and Edgefield Avenue in Oak Cliff branded the intersection as a historic “trolley stop.” But it never was that. The streetcar (it wasn’t a trolley) didn’t stop or even run along Clarendon or Edgefield. It was on Burlington Boulevard two blocks away. Much of…

County Court Building Repurposed Into 230 Mixed-Income Units at Gateway Oak Cliff 

By April Towery | September 8, 2024 |

More than 200 apartments just became available to North Oak Cliff renters, and they’re in the sweet spot of affordability.  Dallas County and Catholic Housing Initiative opened the 230-unit mixed-income Gateway Oak Cliff development in July. The $45 million project was funded in part by Oak Cliff Gateway Tax Increment Financing dollars.  The apartment complex…

Host Unforgettable Gatherings in This Preston Hollow Entertainer’s Paradise

By CandysDirt | September 7, 2024 |

Was it Aristotle or Abraham Lincoln who gave us that wise old proverb: “Life is too short to live in a boring house”? Regardless of who said it, surely they were envisioning 5823 Caladium Drive when they had the epiphany. This 6,574-square-foot home — a cross between classic Mediterranean elegance and Preston Hollow chic —…