Dallas real estate news

Go To Design School With Carleton Varney… At The Greenbrier, How About at the Ritz?

By Candy Evans / January 26, 2012 /

This has to be the greatest thing since, well, designs by Dorothy Draper: Interior designer Carleton Varney, who designed several units here in Dallas, including The Residences at the Ritz Carlton and also at The Stoneleigh Hotel, has also designed furniture, lighting, dinnerware and linens; he has two lines of fabrics, as well as a CD (“Carleton Varney, Music With Style”).

The Best Little Beachfront Community in Texas Real Estate: Affordable, Accesible Second Homes

By Candy Evans / January 26, 2012 /

We may not have a beach in Dallas, but we do just a few hundred miles south at Cinnamon Shore…

Tuesday Two Hundred: You, Too, Can Have a Fancy Pants Commode at $168 a Square Foot. Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / January 24, 2012 /

Update: Got a blast from the past from architect Joshua Nimmo AIA, who tells me he designed these homes on Rusk.They were built and developed by Alan Kagan who had some design input. I watched cousins of this development in the rough a couple of years ago, when I first toured the new Uptown East and The…

This House is for YU (Darvesh): Preston Hollow Spec Manse With Man Cave. The Price: $7,995,000. Open House Today 2:00 to 5:00

By Candy Evans / January 22, 2012 /

A Man Cave deep in the heart of Preston Hollow, more baths than days of the week, and SEVEN living areas and fireplaces. Only YU can afford it! Check out this recently completed manse at 5242 Park Lane by Bella Custom Homes: perfect example of lush Preston Hollow living. The gated estate, one of many…

About My Congressman, Pete Sessions’ Sweetheart $1,000,000 Mortgage Loan Deal: I’m Pissed

By Candy Evans / January 20, 2012 /

We are in the process of refinancing and it has been hell. So you can imagine my surprise yesterday when I learned that my very own Congressman, Pete Sessions, along with three other members of Congress, is under investigation for the favorable rates they received from Countrywide Financial Corp., which was a poster child for sub-prime lending. The…