Smelling Salts

Tuesday Two Hundred: Austin Stone Charmer Is Calling Me To Play House on Kenwell

By Candy Evans / November 1, 2011 /

I LOVE ME some Austin stone on this Shannon Estates cottage at 6547 Kenwell. Close to Dallas North tollway, Park Cities, shopping & restaurants. Kitchen has updated cabinetry, the g-word (granite counters) & stainless appliances. Large living room has a fire place that actually burns wood and a charming arch way to kitchen. The updated baths have travertine…

Tuesday Two Hundred: Two Bedrooms, Two Baths Kicking It Up on Kirkwood. Affordable Dallas Real Estate

By Candy Evans / September 27, 2011 /

Get out the smelling salts! This puppy at 635 Kirkwood has been reduced from $249,900 to $199,900 — that’s almost $50,000 big ones chopped right off the block. Actually, it IS $50,000 big ones off. This house may be under contract by the time I hit “publish”. You cannot get cuter, and again, more proof…

Psychometer: Everyone Is Talking About This University Park Home

By Candy Evans / July 14, 2011 /

This home is a real head-scratcher. 7225 Turtle Creek. On the corner of Stanford and Turtle Creek, the neighborhood is chock full of stately McMansions and charming Hansel and Gretel cottages. Then, there’s this. The home was sold in December 2010 for $960,000, list $995,000 reduced from $1,069,000. The home was remodeled and is now on…

The $15 Million Home Sale that Everyone is Talking About: Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / May 10, 2011 /

This is what’s happening in real estate: the rich are getting richer and buying up trophy properties, sky’s the limit. The rest of us can eat cake. Case in point: 3820 Gillon Avenue, owned by Randall and Olamaie Fojtasek, a former partner at Hicks Muse who co-founded the private equity firm Brazos Partners. The Fojtaseks…