Dallas Luxury Real Estate

Mehrdad Moayedi Buys the Phil Romano Estate on Strait Lane

By Candy Evans / June 12, 2014 /

The Statler Hilton, The Stoneleigh, and more than 40 residential developments in North Texas, Austin, Houston and San Antonio, are not the only properties owned by developer Mehrdad Moaydi and his vast land-snatching Centurion Development Company. Yesterday, Mehrdad closed on Phil Romano’s gorgeous 10660 Strait Lane that has been on the market since about 2004,…

Inwood Mortgage Home of the Week: Anton Korn, Stained Glass and a Lucite Bathtub

By Candy Evans / June 12, 2014 /

I am in Houston attending the National Association of Real Estate Editors annual spring conference, along with Joanna, and I just got back from a private tour of River Oaks. Mama mia, I am still on the House Porn high! So I bring you a version of the very type of homes one finds in…

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…