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This Lovely Lake Park Estates Home Is Ready for Your Expert Touch

By Shelby Skrhak / July 15, 2022 /

As some of our East Dallas-dwelling CandysDirt.com team will tell you, Lake Park Estates is one of those neighborhoods that used to be a well-kept secret. Tucked between Garland Road, E. Lake Highlands Drive, and just across the street from Buckner Blvd., people flocked to this popular enclave of midcentury homes when they discovered they…

This Story Is About a Home But It’s Also About the Nostalgia of Lochwood Shopping Center

By Shelby Skrhak / May 27, 2022 /

For most home listing features I write, I search the web and the Dallas Morning News archives for historical insights about the home or neighborhood. Just something that’ll give me an interesting hook to build my story. For this week’s very meta Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank, I discovered a…

This Downtown Carrollton Home Is Just As Pretty As It Was The Day It Was Built

By Shelby Skrhak / April 10, 2022 /

This week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank, takes us to a lovely little area near historic downtown Carrollton. When this charming cottage was first built in 1946, the Dallas County town boasted nearly 100 percent homeownership. That was at the beginning of a feverish housing boom, when homebuilders like Fox…

Hop to This Allen Home That’s Popular on Zillow

By Shelby Skrhak / February 18, 2022 /

This week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank, takes us to Allen — somewhere we don’t visit all that often here on CandysDirt.com. I know of Collin County cities, Plano gets a lot of the attention for its corporate headquarter corridor and Celina mades headlines for its jaw-dropping population growth, but…

A Funky Little Art House in Little Forest Hills

By Shelby Skrhak / January 7, 2022 /

Eustis is a colorful avenue in Little Forest Hills near White Rock Lake, where homes of green, yellow, red, and blue line the curb-less streets. But this week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank, takes eclectic up a notch as it’s known colloquially as the Blue Alamo. Set on nearly a…