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This Sunset Hill Stop on The Heritage Oak Cliff Home Tour Shows That Change is The Only Constant

By CandysDirt.com Contributor | October 10, 2023 |

By Donovan Westover Our next tour home preview takes us back to the year 1920 as we head over to the Sunset Hill neighborhood, which is behind Sunset High School.  The approximately 1,000-household neighborhood was originally part of a 1,000-acre farm which was gradually divided for development in the 1890s.  The first homes in the…

Stop The Car! You Have to See This Home on Ridglea Golf Course

By Seth Fowler | October 10, 2023 |

Are you the type of home admirer who gets bored looking at the same old, same old? Sure, this home might be big, and that house might be expensive, but let’s be honest — many homes look alike or carry an absurd price tag, and it’s hard to get excited about them. Well, don’t worry…

Rate Buydown Makes Skyline Terrace Villas in Maple District an Attractive View

By Shelby Skrhak | October 9, 2023 |

Crescent Estates Custom Homes has an enticing offer for someone seeking a spacious new-construction single-family home in the middle of everything. The luxury home builder is promoting a fixed rate buydown offer for the last four 3,400-square-foot Skyline Terrace Villas, located in the emerging Maple District. For these four available homes on Entrada Way, Crescent…

Dallas Resident’s Legal Battle With City Involves a ‘Bogus Lien’ And Lee Harvey Oswald

By April Towery | October 9, 2023 |

In 2007, Dallas resident Jane Bryant purchased a home on the corner of West Davis and North Elsbeth, about 100 yards from the Bishop Arts District. The former University of North Texas at Dallas professor had big plans to live there and operate her apparel business downstairs.  She never got to live in the 1925…

What do Uber-Luxury Real Estate Buyers Want Today?

By Karen Eubank | October 9, 2023 |

When the word budget is not part of your vocabulary and interest rates don’t matter, what does the uber-luxury real estate buyer want now? More to the point, why does that matter to those of us not in that luxury realm? That one is easy. Think about what comes down the runway at Chanel. Not…

City Departments Square Off Against Police And Fire For November 2024 Bond Election Funds

By April Towery | October 9, 2023 |

The chess game over how to divide up $1.1 billion among all of Dallas’ capital needs continues, as the 2024 bond election approaches and the deadline for task force recommendations is less than two months away. Bond town hall meetings began in late September and will continue through Oct. 19.  The needs far outweigh the…