Champ D’Or

How I Sold a $35 Million Mansion On the Market for Ten Years in Less Than 10 Minutes

By Candy Evans / April 8, 2012 /

“Almost ten years to sell the place, it sold at auction in about ten minutes.” I just had to talk to him, touch him, be in his presence! And when I asked Clay Stapp if last weekend’s sale of Champ d’Or, that 40,000 square foot mega giant up in Hickory Creek, wasn’t by far the…

Dallas Realtor Extraordinaire Clay Stapp Rep’ed Buyer of Champ d’Or: Buyer is Dallas Family with International Ties

By Candy Evans / April 2, 2012 /

Later today, the venerable PR firm of Rubenstein Public Relations will release this press release with more details, the official details, of Friday’s sale of Champ d’Or. As I told you yesterday, we know Champ was swooped up by a Dallas family with international ties (read: jet setters) and I have just learned that Clay Stapp was…

Got $250K? Only Three More Days to Register for the Champ d’Or Auction Coming Up This Saturday — but Maintenance Could Eat You Alive!

By Candy Evans / March 29, 2012 /

This is Briggs Freeman agent Joan Eleazer and her beautiful real estate selling family in the main parlor up in Hickory Creek. Layne Pitzer is Joan’s daughter pictured here with her precious children, and Joan’s husband (Layne’s dad) Jeff Eleazer. They were all up at Champ d’Or weekend before last for the special invitation pre-view party before Saturday’s big auction.…

Champ d’Or Chalked Up Mega Pageviews on MSNBC.COM Today

By Candy Evans / March 21, 2012 /

This is why auctions can be so darn effective: Champ d’Or is getting a Texas-sized dose of publicity not just here but all over the world now. I shot a video for Zillow there last week, and now it’s gone plumb viral. Which means, lots of hits to our site today. I thought this comment was…

Reserve Set for 48,000 Square Foot Champ D’Or Auction on March 30: Welcome to The Chopping Block of Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / March 1, 2012 /

I see Steve Brown now has the Champ auction story up behind the Dallas Morning News pay wall, which I subscribe to. Nothing new in his report except that the auction house handling the sale once sold one of Cher’s $8.7 million Hawaiian homes. (See what that means.) Meantime, here’s the website for the auction. I have been placing a lot of office bets with people on what the reserve price will be — that is, the seller’s bottom line price. Looks like it is $10.3 million. And for your viewing pleasure, here’s the video Ebby Halliday made when Greg Cagle had the listing: Cinderella parties!