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Highland House in Preston Center Town Hall Meeting Next Tuesday Evening

By Candy Evans / May 7, 2014 /

Got word yesterday from City Councilwoman Jennifer Staubach Gates that she is hosting a town-hall meeting from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 13 at Northway Christian Church, giving homeowners a chance to learn more about the proposed luxury high-rise apartment community called Highland House that Luke Crosland wants to build in the heart of Preston Center, hear about…

100 Years Later, Christine Loh’s Swiss Avenue Mansion is Ready To Celebrate

By Joanna England / May 6, 2014 /

Swiss Avenue is full of wonderful properties that have so much history and life to them. They have more character in one square foot than many Dallas homes have throughout. Homes on Swiss Avenue are the antithesis of the zero-lot-line McMansions you see in the suburbs (not that there’s anything wrong with that!), and they…

The Dallas Morning News Supports Transwestern’s Lux Apartment Proposal at Preston & Northwest Highway

By Candy Evans / May 6, 2014 /

Don’t know if you caught this, and I meant to draw this out last week, but Rudolph Bush at the Dallas Morning News is strongly supporting Transwestern’s proposal to change the zoning to build a six-story luxury apartment community at the northeast corner of Preston and Northwest Highway. You recall this project would replace the existing…

The Most Expensive Homes on the Market In Dallas Right Now: What $10 Million and Above Buys You!

By Candy Evans / May 5, 2014 /

Thursday, Lisa Blue Baron’s palatial Preston Road estate goes into the MLS as the Mathews-Nichols team begins their marketing blitz to sell what will be the most expensive home ON THE MLS MARKET in Dallas. We heard today the asking price will be $37.5 million. Yes, I know that the Hicks are still marketing the…

Monday Morning Millionaire I: Lisa Blue Baron Asks $37.5 Million for the Baron Estate on Preston Road at Deloache

By Candy Evans / May 5, 2014 /

Y’all, we have a new high in Dallas Real Estate listings starting today! Thank you, darling Alan Peppard, for getting word out that, after much deliberation, Lisa Baron has settled on $37.5 million as asking price for her 15,254 square foot Robert A.M. Stern designed palatial estate on the southwest corner of Preston Road and Deloache…