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A Rare Spanish-Style Ranch Just Hit the Market!

By Karen Eubank / February 26, 2021 /

Finding a home with character that’s been updated and is move-in ready can be a challenge today. That’s why this Spanish-style ranch is such a  refreshing opportunity to own a unique home. The “Styled Ranch” was built during the Ranch-house era, roughly 1935 to 1975, with their peak of popularity in the 1970s. So, this…

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Some Realtors Experience Sticker Shock as Zillow Begins Charging For Rental Listings

By Joanna England / January 13, 2021 /

For John Angell, it was the last straw. The Dallas-based agent with Paragon Realtors took to Facebook to air his grievance with Zillow, the company that uses MLS data to populate its site with for-sale and for-lease listings. The company, which started its own brokerage — Zillow Homes — last September, also announced at that…

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Kick-Off the New Year in This Trendy Cedars District Townhouse

By Karen Eubank / December 31, 2020 /

My introduction to the Cedars District was in the 1980s. As a photo stylist, I was always in parts of town most people had no idea existed, scouting for unusual locations for shoots or headed to resources that needed large warehouse spaces to build our crazy props for Neiman Marcus Christmas catalogs. All I could…

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A Fresh Take on The Modern Duplex

By Karen Eubank / December 4, 2020 /

In my younger years, I lived in a duplex in East Dallas. Back then, they were all circa 1920s, so they had the traditional floorplan. I loved the lifestyle, and man did we party there. If anyone had designed a modern duplex like this one, I’d have moved heaven and earth to buy it because…

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This Modern Midcentury-Style Home Feels Like a Magical Treehouse

By Karen Eubank / September 18, 2020 /

What’s the correct recipe for creating a modern midcentury-style home that feels like a magical treehouse? Take a 1955 ranch home in a perfect natural setting down to the studs, add a second story, pay attention to the details, and voila! Of course, it’s essential to have the right person to perform that transformation. This…

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