Fort Worth Luxury Living

Eagle Mountain Lake Waterfront Home is so Modern And Urbane

By Eric Prokesh / January 27, 2023 /

What’s my idea of a great lake house? A house that, stripped of its location, would still be special. That’s certainly true of this stunning Eagle Mountain Lake home at 7812 Skylake Drive in Lake Country Estates addition. The listing describes this 1984 build as Midcentury Modern. I thought we had agreed to draw that…

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Summer Doldrums? Consider this Lakefront Resort Perfect for a Staycation.

By Eric Prokesh / August 12, 2022 /
Lakefront Resort

Well, thank God for a reprieve, however brief, from the monstrous, seemingly endless string of triple-digit dog days. While I don’t want to be the ant at the picnic, we aren’t even halfway through August and every year I seem to forget that cool autumn days don’t commence promptly on September 1. Those lucky enough…

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Sylvan Rivercrest Classic on Hazelwood Drive

By Eric Prokesh / January 22, 2021 /
Hazelwood Drive

Maybe it was a desire to return to normality. There were plenty of flashier, glitzier, new-to-the-market candidates, but I was craving residential comfort food. Steak and potatoes. Well at this price point, more like Chateaubriand and Pommes de Terres Lyonnaise. Although at under $1.5 million it’s a pretty fair price to live in one of…

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Classic Georgian in Fort Worth’s Posh Bradford Court

By Eric Prokesh / January 24, 2020 /
Bradford Court

Last week I rifled through so many pages (over 100) on a real estate site, in search of a Fort Worth Friday worthy of our audience, that a prompt intervened to make me prove I wasn’t a bot! This week, it seems, I’m spoiled for choice.

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Discreet Alta Drive Façade Masks Interior Luxury

By Eric Prokesh / April 27, 2018 /

When a house on coveted Alta Drive with Rivercrest golf course views comes on the market it’s … well, real estate news. Big time. The oh-so-discreet façade of 505 Alta Drive is oh-so-understated old Fort Worth, though it masks a whopping 5,157 square feet of living area and sits on a nearly half acre lot. Inside,…

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