Dallas Luxury Real Estate

Wednesday Wonder: The Dickinson House on Professor Row Lives the Secret Life of Bees

By Candy Evans / June 11, 2014 /

I’m heading east for a college reunion soon, back to the Ivy-covered walls of Dartmouth, Baker Library and to catch tea at Sanborn House. But it was Dickinson House in Dallas that put me in the collegiate mood. Dickinson House, 3441 University, is in the heart of Professor Row, as they call it, because the…

Michael Young and Bride Buy Grand Deloache Residence in Honeypot of Sunnybrook, Preston Hollow

By Candy Evans / June 10, 2014 /

Do you think they just want to be near Yu Darvish? Pro baseball infielder Michael Young — former, that is, I think — and his wife, Christina Barbosa, have purchased a massive, stately grand house on the fabulous street of Deloache, the same street as Mark Cuban’s humble abode. Yes, THAT Deloache,  in Sunnybrook Estates,…

Battle Behind the Pink Wall: Why We Absolutely Need to Let Transwestern Redevelop Town House Row

By Candy Evans / June 5, 2014 /

Robert Edelman’s Drexel Park Hollow hogs virtually every inch of dirt Guest post by C.C. Allen I attended the meeting Dallas City Councilman Lee Kleinman set up at the University Park United Methodist Church on May 28th. The purpose of the meeting was to have Transwestern update the community on its proposal to redevelop Town…

Wednesday Wonder: Just a Little Dallas Pied-a-Terre by Robert A.M. Stern

By Candy Evans / June 4, 2014 /

Lisa Blue was back in town last week to attend Lee Kleinman’s Town Hall meeting on the Transwestern rezoning case Behind the Pink Wall. We hope she didn’t muss her beautiful white bedroom because her fairy-tale beautiful Preston Hollow mansion at 5950 Deloache is definitely on the market, in MLS, and has even had a…

Inwood Home of the Week: $1.2 Buys You a 3 Acre Spread in the Horse Country of McKinney… and a “River” Runs Through It

By Candy Evans / May 29, 2014 /

Well, it’s Texas, so maybe it’s a creek. I love those stories comparing what a certain amount of money buys in real estate in different cities. In fact, we’ve done that from time to time here on CandysDirt.com. Now let’s take $1.2 million. What do you get for that in, say Highland Park? A lot?…