Dallas real estate

D.R. Horton’s Bryan Place, Continued

By Candy Evans / July 3, 2014 /

This is the thing about dealing with these big huge home builders: it’s hard to get hold of the corporate folks. My first phone calls got me to someone who cannot be quoted because this is a news blog, all information has to come from corporate. But I did find out that the Exall townhome…

Is D.R. Horton Being a Good Neighbor at Bryan Place? We Think Not So Much

By Candy Evans / July 3, 2014 /

A reader alerts us to the building  DR Horton is doing a less than stellar job of corporate responsibility at their Bryan Place development called “Exall Townhomes”.

Brandon McCarthy’s Uptown Loft Will Give You a 360 Degree View of Friday’s Fireworks Display

By Candy Evans / July 2, 2014 /

Whoa, this is one of those units that deserves the “O” word. Or maybe I should say, the “A” word. This is the Uptown loft of Arizona Diamondback right-handed pitcher Brandon McCarthy and his wife, Amanda. And the agent, darling Nancy Dunning at Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s, is not using broker babble when she says “one…

Occupy Texas: This Lakewood Tuscan Villa Gets Top Billing in Film Now Shooting in Dallas

By Candy Evans / July 2, 2014 /

Remember the Lakewood Home Festival? One of the coolest homes on the tour belonged to Shannon Kincaid and Allen Stringer, she being the artist whose paintings have been snapped up by Oprah Winfrey, among others. Her husband, Allen, is an ObGyn at Baylor. We told you how much we loved that home back when we…

Water, Water … Nowhere? Texas is Nearing Critical Conditions For Water, But Will We Reach California-Level Drought?

By Joanna England / June 30, 2014 /

The latest issue of Governing magazine has a story that all Texans should read, and then read again. The story’s title is self-explanatory — “Drought-Plagued Regions Struggle to Conserve Water and Make Money” — an issue with which much of North and West Texas are intimately familiar.