Fort Worth New Build
A friend of mine who lived one street over from Collinwood Avenue dubbed his neighborhood “Westover Leftover.” The description, if ironic, like many jokes contains an element of truth. Because although the neighborhood has a prestigious ’07 zip code and abuts Westover Hills, the street is something of a mixed bag with original 1940s vintage…
This was one of those fraughtful weeks that sent me poring through hundreds of listings in pursuit of something noteworthy. Each time my interest was peaked by an eye catching exterior, I experienced that sinking feeling on entering. I suppose it’s the decorator in me but I just could’t get past the sad soft furnishes…
Honestly, sometime in the very near future we will look back and say “Remember when you could buy a luxurious house in a near in-town location for a mere $250 a square foot?” Fort Worth will for many, be a missed buying opportunity like Brooklyn in New York or, nearer to home, Kessler Park in…
One of the things I love most about Fort Worth is its preservationist instinct. Older neighborhoods, the venerable Westside enclaves of Westover Hills, Rivercrest, and Crestwood are largely as they were built. Ditto the old Southside Neighborhoods of Mistletoe Heights, Berkeley Place, Fairmount, and my own Ryan Place. There are, however, a few neighborhoods like…
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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