Dallas High-Rises

After Landing at David Griffin, Nancy Martinez Doesn’t Miss a Beat With This Stellar Unit at The House

By Joanna England / April 24, 2019 /

When choosing high-rise real estate, what level provides your preferred views? Some people don’t want to get too high, opting for a tree-top skimming view that offers some privacy and shorter elevator rides. Others like that mid-building feel, that gives you a great feel for the horizon and keeps vertigo at bay. Others want a…

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Condo Owners Should Say Thanks For All The New Apartments

By Jon Anderson / September 15, 2017 /

That’s right, thank them.  Buy them some chocolates and champagne … maybe a spa day. Why? Because without the over-rotation on apartments that’s happening during this building cycle, your condo would be worth less.  Now, this doesn’t hold in the over-saturated, million-dollar end — in fact that part of the market has so much product,…

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Dallas High-Rise Buyer’s Guide: The Entrance to High-Rise Living

By Jon Anderson / June 7, 2017 /

Welcome to Part Seven of CandysDirt.com’s Dallas High-Rise Buyer’s Guide.  We’ve covered a lot of turf so far. Thirty-Three high-rises in fact. We began with two columns discussing the merits of buildings that include utilities in their HOA dues (here, here). We moved on to the house porn of Dallas’ most expensive high-rises (here, here) before…

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Affordable Downtown Dallas: “I Believe in This Project,” Says CityWalk @ Akard Penthouse Owner

By Joanna England / August 5, 2015 /

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect new developments. When Andrew Foster bought his 15th floor penthouse at 511 N. Akard, he began the 7 month process of completely gutting the former commercial space. The building, which is the one of the few affordable apartment buildings in downtown Dallas,  includes permanent supportive housing…

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Smoke on the Water? Part 1: 10 Acres Ripe for the Picking

By Jon Anderson / June 19, 2015 /

Where there’s smoke, there’s gonna be fire.  As Candy recently wrote, 2505 Turtle Creek is finally set to become the Limited Edition, the über-luxury high-rise by first-time (in Dallas) high-risers from Toronto Great Gulf. But with 10-acres of smoldering land ready to ignite, the Limited Edition may be just the beginning for this tail-end of…

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