Dallas real estate news

Dallas Parks Foundation’s CONFAB is Tomorrow! Don’t Miss it!

By Joanna England / June 4, 2014 /

The second volume of the Dallas Parks Foundation‘s revolutionary CONFAB 2014 is tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the Dallas City Performance Hall. This event, which bills itself as a conversation about public space, is actually so much more, and CandysDirt.com is proud to be one of the sponsors. If you care about what kind of…

Trammell Crow Presents Sam’s Club Case to Oak Lawn Council

By Candy Evans / June 4, 2014 /

I will tell you this: Joel Behrens of Trammell Crow seems like a nice, earnest young man of 34 who was sweating up a storm last night as he was the anointed. Anointed, that is, to present Trammell Crow’s case for a super-size Sam’s Wholesale Club to the venerable Oak Lawn Committee, the original protectors of…

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…

Building it Back Up: Remodeling a 1950s Home Reminds You That They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To

By Joanna England / June 3, 2014 /

My home has been standing since 1952, according to DCAD. In that time it has seen a cycle of haphazard “renovations,” including a rather embarrassing “remodel” of the home’s sole bathroom. My home didn’t come with the cute vintage Daltile in the many different colors of the rainbow, nor did it have one of those…

Tuesday Two Hundred: Even Condos Are Flying Off MLS, Like This Beauty on Lowest Greenville

By Joanna England / June 3, 2014 /

I was chatting with Carrie Hill, one half of the dynamic auburn-locked duo of Olson & Hill Real Estate, and she told me she had a fabulous condo in a super hot area that was just on the market. I said “Bring it on!” of course, looking forward to mixing up our Tuesday Two Hundred…