celebrity homes

Monday Morning Millionaire: Inside One of the Most Beautiful Homes in Dallas, the Lay Estate on Radbrook Place

By Candy Evans / July 7, 2014 /

Every so often, a landmark Dallas home comes along for sale that makes you catch your breath and want to mortgage your first-born child so you can buy it. Such is the Herman and Mimi Lay estate at 4935 Radbrook Place in Preston Hollow. Have you seen this home in spring? It has oceans of…

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Brandon McCarthy’s Uptown Loft Will Give You a 360 Degree View of Friday’s Fireworks Display

By Candy Evans / July 2, 2014 /

Whoa, this is one of those units that deserves the “O” word. Or maybe I should say, the “A” word. This is the Uptown loft of Arizona Diamondback right-handed pitcher Brandon McCarthy and his wife, Amanda. And the agent, darling Nancy Dunning at Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s, is not using broker babble when she says “one…

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Dallas Mav Dirk Nowitzki Purchasing Strait Lane Estate

By Candy Evans / May 26, 2011 /

March 13, 2008. I had heard rumblings that a very tall German basketball player whose last name rhymes with “whiskey” had bought a five-bedroom, six-bath Colonial-revival gigunda prop on Strait Lane, a.k.a. Billionaires Row, with very tall ceilings — I mean, tall! — for just under $8 million. Then I got confirmation: Dave Perry-Miller was…

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Is Jenna Bush Hager Coming Home to Dallas?

By Candy Evans / December 10, 2010 /

Here’s a cool place if you have a hankering for a second home in the Baltimore MD area — the market there is not too shabby, but you might have to worry about crime. Jenna Bush Hager and her husband, Henry, have their super historical townhouse on the market for $474,900 for the three-bedroom, 2000…

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