real estate

An Analysis of the Committee Highland House Petition, Graph by Graph

By Candy Evans / May 13, 2014 /

The Crosland Group is proposing a 29-story apartment building near the core of Preston Center shopping center (right behind Hopdoddy Burger restaurant).  At present, a 3 story medical building sits on the Westchester Drive site. Current zoning allows for a 6-7 story building. The proposed building  would be higher than any building in Preston Center. The Highland House is…

We’ve Done Your Mother’s Day Shopping: Make Mom (REAL) Happy With a Wine Basement!

By Candy Evans / May 9, 2014 /

Hey, she car-pooled you ’till she was blue in the face, did your laundry when the maid was off, and carried you around for nine months not to mention nursing, diapers, and (post-partum) liposuction. The least you can do is treat her to her own below-ground retreat where she can  collect vino and drink all…

The Dallas Morning News Supports Transwestern’s Lux Apartment Proposal at Preston & Northwest Highway

By Candy Evans / May 6, 2014 /

Don’t know if you caught this, and I meant to draw this out last week, but Rudolph Bush at the Dallas Morning News is strongly supporting Transwestern’s proposal to change the zoning to build a six-story luxury apartment community at the northeast corner of Preston and Northwest Highway. You recall this project would replace the existing…

The Most Expensive Homes on the Market In Dallas Right Now: What $10 Million and Above Buys You!

By Candy Evans / May 5, 2014 /

Thursday, Lisa Blue Baron’s palatial Preston Road estate goes into the MLS as the Mathews-Nichols team begins their marketing blitz to sell what will be the most expensive home ON THE MLS MARKET in Dallas. We heard today the asking price will be $37.5 million. Yes, I know that the Hicks are still marketing the…

Monday Morning Millionaire I: Lisa Blue Baron Asks $37.5 Million for the Baron Estate on Preston Road at Deloache

By Candy Evans / May 5, 2014 /

Y’all, we have a new high in Dallas Real Estate listings starting today! Thank you, darling Alan Peppard, for getting word out that, after much deliberation, Lisa Baron has settled on $37.5 million as asking price for her 15,254 square foot Robert A.M. Stern designed palatial estate on the southwest corner of Preston Road and Deloache…