Dallas real estate

Fun Cars & Real Estate: Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s Grant Vancleve Drives a Porsche and LOVES It

By Candy Evans / November 3, 2015 /

CD: Grant, you wild man, what kind of car do you drive? GV: 2016 Panamera CD: Pure white! Is this the first Porsche you have had? GV: Second Porsche, first was 2013 Panamera also… CD: Just a Porsche type of guy. What do you love about this sled? GV: What I love about my Porsche is…

Alamo Manhattan’s Bishop Gateway Project Moves Forward with Good Reviews

By Amanda Popken / November 2, 2015 /

  If you’ve been following the Bishop Gateway project near the Bishop Arts District in North Oak Cliff, you know it’s been quite a contentious project. If you haven’t been following, here’s an overview along with an update. Either way, take note of the process they’re going through. The first-pass draft of the project showed hideously…

Happy Halloween! Houses of (Photographic) Horrors

By Jon Anderson / October 30, 2015 /

When buyers peruse listings, they rely heavily on the pictures posted by the listing agent. Usually pictures entice, however sometimes they’re scary, wary, or pointless. I know when I look at homes, I expect the pictures to be a storyboard that escorts me through a property. I want to see the exterior, the entryway, and…

Unclaimed Baggage Center: Refresh Yourself on the Cheap

By Jon Anderson / October 2, 2015 /

Ever have your luggage lost on the way to or from your Second Shelter? Wonder what became of those reading glasses went left in the airplane seat pocket never to be seen again? They went to Scottsboro, Ala., to the Unclaimed Baggage Center store. My “real” job asked that I take some vacation. So last week, for…

WalletHub Doesn’t Think Dallas is The Best Place to Retire, But it’s Not Bad

By Jon Anderson / September 25, 2015 /

WalletHub released its 2015 list of the best and worst places to retire based on 23 metrics across the 150 largest cities in the USA. Texas is a mixed bag. Unsurprisingly, six of the top 10 are in Florida (4) and Arizona (2) – states with no income taxes and long-time targets of the retirement…