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Spring Into These Open Houses of the Week: April is a Great Time to Buy A New Home

By Joy Donovan / April 13, 2023 /

Buying a house in spring is a great idea. And with this selection of CandysDirt.com Open Houses of the Week, you might just find Paradise. The days are getting longer so there’s more time to view the house in the bright light of day. There also are more housing options in the spring, according to…

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India Developer’s Grass-Topped Community in Frisco is ‘Very Close to Nature’

By Marlin Weso / November 8, 2020 /

Kamal Sagar’s unique vision of high-end homes coming to Frisco is finally coming into complete focus this month. India-based Total Environment Homes’ Tapestry community is starting a sales campaign this month on its 121-home residential community that features Texas native grasses on rooftops. We first heard about this in 2017 in a review by Frisco…

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The Colony May Challenge Us in Headline Writing, But Delights Us With Great Homes

By Shelby Skrhak / July 21, 2019 /

Do you know how difficult it is to write headlines with a city whose name begins with the article The? The answer is very as I came to learn more than a decade ago when I was community newspaper editor for The Colony. But despite the clunky headlines I may have written, the stories I came…

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The Colony Stunner Wows With Waterfront Views For $495K

By Amy Puchaty / August 24, 2018 /

This week’s Friday Four Hundred is a stunner! It comes richly appointed with a beautiful stone and brick façade, generous interiors, and waterfront views for just $495,900. If you’ve been scouring Dallas for a dream home under $500,000 this could be it! Situated just north of Dallas in The Colony rests the four-bedroom, three-bedroom, 7,536-square-foot home…

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Frisco Tops Best Family Cities List, Southlake Has Lowest Divorce Rate, UP Has Most Kids

By Shelby Skrhak / June 27, 2018 /

Frisco was named the best city for raising a family, closely followed by Allen, and Southlake as part of a new 2018 “best Texas cities” list, ranking the best and worst Texas cities for families. Wallethub, a D.C.-based personal finance site, compiled the new June 2018 report that ranked the 117 largest cities in Texas…

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