Luxury High Rise

Luxury Market Slowdown Equals Opportunities For Bargains

By Jon Anderson / June 28, 2016 /

We all know that anything under $1 million is flying off the MLS faster than a Cabbage Patch Kid in the 1980s. In the $1 million-plus market, homes are still flying off the shelves like Cabbage Patch Kids … in 2016. Sure they’re still selling, but no one is getting trampled. This sentiment was echoed…

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Legacy West: Windrose Tower Sales Center Slated for May Opening

By Joanna England / April 21, 2016 /

No one could be more excited about the new Windrose Tower at Legacy West than us here at CandysDirt.com. Pre-sales have already launched for the luxurious 24-story high-rise, and the all-new sales center for the ground-breaking building — the only luxury condo development built north of LBJ since the Bonaventure — slated to open next…

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Bleu Ciel: Prices For This Luxury High-Rise Continue Up, Up and Away

By Jon Anderson / March 3, 2016 /

In April 2015, just a few months after I started this gig, I noticed that Bleu Ciel’s prices had jumped. Well, it’s done happened again! Today saw a further 2 to 4.5 percent increase on top of the 15-ish percent they’d jumped since pricing was announced. For the “teaser” units on the MLS that translates…

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Condo Developers Running out of Rich People? Build for the Middle Class

By Jon Anderson / January 29, 2016 /

In December, I spent a month writing about Hawaii real estate. Several of the articles showcased new and planned high-rises in the Kaka’ako area of Honolulu that were almost exclusively targeting foreign investment and wealthy local buyers wanting to trade their nest for a high-rise perch. You may also recall that many of these buildings…

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Museum Tower Gets New Neighbor — Office Building With Ground-Floor Retail

By Jon Anderson / June 24, 2015 /

Well, that didn’t take long. We know downtown dirt is getting pricier by the minute. So the news last week that the Dallas Symphony Foundation is selling a side-lot on Pearl and Woodall Rodgers to Lincoln Property for $7.2 million wasn’t too surprising. The smidge-over-half-acre lot had been a grassy area for about 20 years, at…

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