Dallas real estate

Dallas Area Home Prices Now 6 Percent Higher Than They Were in the Peak Before the Recession

By Candy Evans / May 27, 2014 /

I guess you can thank no income taxes and pot. Because Dallas and Denver are on a high! I really, really wish I could be a fly on the wall in Robert Shiller’s office someday. I say this because when I heard him speak as the huge national recession was setting in, this was about…

Another Town Hall Meeting to Push Transwestern Luxury Apartments Behind the Pink Wall, Tuesday Evening

By Candy Evans / May 26, 2014 /

That’s tomorrow. Transwestern is holding yet another significant town hall meeting to appeal to nay-saying neighbors, who say they don’t want a luxury apartment complex to be built at Preston and Northwest Highway.

One Plus Acre Lot on Creek in JanMar With Ginormous Trees, South of LBJ, $899,900

By Candy Evans / May 23, 2014 /

In fact, it’s right next door to Lee Trevino’s old house, NOT his current manse in Preston Hollow, but the place he lived before he became rich and famous. 11757 Hill Haven is a solid family home that has been filled with kids, friends, overnight adventures and pool parties galore. Think “Leave It To Beaver.”…

Hoping for a 30 Day Delay & Wear Red: Tonight’s Meeting on East Village Big Box Sam’s Club

By Candy Evans / May 21, 2014 /

A CandysDirt reader attended tonight’s meeting to try and stop development of a Sam’s Club on that 17 acres of land near Cityplace — once owned by ACS — where we learned this week that Trammell Crow Companies wants to built another Sam’s Club warehouse store.  District 2 was out in full force with about…

How To Kill a City: Death by DUMBING

By Candy Evans / May 21, 2014 /

I read Mark Lamster’s quick take on the (from my perspective) real estate travesty that is being discussed right now, that being Trammell Crow’s ridic decision to plop a big box Sam’s Wholesale Club in a new development grazing the east side of Central Expressway, across from Uptown. Mark cleverly calls his post: How To…