Preston Hollow

Big Is Back: Living Large in Dallas Real Estate Never Really Went Out of Style

By Candy Evans / February 14, 2012 /

I laugh whenever I read that American homes are getting smaller. Maybe SOME homes. But custom homes for the uber wealthy here and elsewhere are bigger than ever. True, there is my generation of Baby Boomers who are contemplating downsizing. Had lunch with Mickey Munir last week of Sharif-Munir Custom Homes, who told me about…

Susan B. Komen’s Nancy Brinker Slept Here When She Lived in Dallas. Old Preston Hollow, Of Course, In a Home Come Full Circle

By Candy Evans / February 4, 2012 /

I have this thing about homes and real estate, obviously. Not only do I like to know the stories inside every house — the tales of the sale — I also like to know the house behind prominent people. Like Nancy Goodman Leitstein Brinker. She has really been in the news lately, with the controversy over abortion funding/non-funding/maybe-funding of breast exams at her org, the Susan B. Komen Foundation, arguably one of the most powerful charities of the 20th century. It was named for her sister who died of breast cancer. Nancy is a breast cancer survivor. Brinker is being cast as a Dallas gal, though she was really born in Peoria, Illinois, which is south of Chicago and considered “downstate”. Her father was a commercial real estate developer there, Marvin L. Goodman.

Thursday Three Hundred, Kiss Me Now: (Wet) Man Cave, Porte Cochere, Granite and a Short Sale

By Candy Evans / February 2, 2012 /

This one sure took some digging, but I may have found the best bargain west of the Mississippi,  south of LBJ for darn sure. 10824 Saint Michaels Drive is a short sale in Preston Hollow. OK, east Preston Hollow and more accurately the Saint Michael (Royal Park Estates) area near JanMar, but no less a GREAT…

Monday Morning Millionaire: Fall In Love With Falls Road All Over Again

By Candy Evans / January 30, 2012 /

One of my favorite neighborhoods in Dallas, I used to live about a block from 5549 Falls from 1990 to 2000. This is a very, very smart little nook of Preston Hollow. I say little only because the lots here are hefty one-half acre lots surrounded by sprawling estates of one acre plus. Small only by…

90210 to 75220: This California Man Wants To Move To Texas ASAP

By Candy Evans / January 26, 2012 /

I had lunch with one of the top builders in Preston Hollow today, who tells me an LA guy has emailed him (off his website, power of the web thank you very much!) and is mulling a move to Texas. The guy is a CEO and wants to move his whole company here. Here is…