Dallas

Zillow Launches “Coming Soon” to Capture the Hip Pocket Market — Good, Bad? What Do You Think?

By Candy Evans / June 17, 2014 /

Call it another by-product of our hot, inventory-deprived real estate market that was created out of the wreckage of the worst recession since the Great Depression.Last week while the nation’s top real estate editors were gathered in Houston, Zillow launched a new on line real estate search to help consumers find pre-market listings. Call them…

Monday Morning Millionaire: A Real NYC Fire Pole, Over-Top Media Room, Two Story Master Closet, Indoor Gymnasium, and (Almost) One Million Dollar Price Reduction

By Candy Evans / June 16, 2014 /

It’s the day after Father’s Day, but Dad would have loved this house on SO many different levels: the acreage, the authentic NYC fireman pole downstairs from the card room to the huge family room,  the indoor gymnasium, the kitchen, the media room where he could be cooking a steak while catching Inglorious Bastards, and…

Inwood Mortgage Home of the Week: Anton Korn, Stained Glass and a Lucite Bathtub

By Candy Evans / June 12, 2014 /

I am in Houston attending the National Association of Real Estate Editors annual spring conference, along with Joanna, and I just got back from a private tour of River Oaks. Mama mia, I am still on the House Porn high! So I bring you a version of the very type of homes one finds in…

Michael Young and Bride Buy Grand Deloache Residence in Honeypot of Sunnybrook, Preston Hollow

By Candy Evans / June 10, 2014 /

Do you think they just want to be near Yu Darvish? Pro baseball infielder Michael Young — former, that is, I think — and his wife, Christina Barbosa, have purchased a massive, stately grand house on the fabulous street of Deloache, the same street as Mark Cuban’s humble abode. Yes, THAT Deloache,  in Sunnybrook Estates,…

The Accidental Activist: Who Is Jonas Park?

By Candy Evans / June 10, 2014 /

He’s a quiet, almost shy young man who was born in Korea and came to the United States to study in 1991. Jonas Park lives in East Dallas and has emerged as the leader of a small activist group not happy that a Sam’s Wholesale Club is moving into their neighborhood. “The last thing I…