Last week’s D Sale of the Week has been reduced to $310,000 from $324,000. Glad you didn’t hurry when I told you to…. because you crawled you will save $14,000. Sounds like these folks are pretty serious about selling.
So I was coming home from the new Park Lane Whole Foods Dallas last night (had to get a yogurt fix) and as I was driving up Hillcrest, looked like all hell was breaking loose at Hillcrest High School. Police were stopping traffic, lights, camera, action oh wait — they were filming the Fox TV [...]
I have been wanting to check out the homes awesome architect Gary Cunningham is building in Little Forest Hills forever. I remember when he first told me when these great contemporary, sustainable homes were on the drawing boards. Here’s one, 8722 Eustis. Awesomeness. Cute, treed lot in Little Forest Hills, 2182 square feet with three [...]
I’m told that the builder of this home, Mark Early, also built Roger Staubach’s home in Preston Hollow. Excellent builder, sign of the times.
Yesterday I drove by five high-end foreclosures north of Northwest Highway.
In our newest issue of D Home, on the news stands now, we present, as always, the best of the best — including the best design secrets from Dallas’ top designers. Some of them told us a little more than we had room to publish, like what the top kitchen design trends are for 2010. [...]
This home is on a corner lot in Preston Haven, in the Preston-Royal vicinity, and it is now listed for $850,000. Brand spanking new: gourmet kitchen, luxurious downstairs master suite with fireplace and huge bath, high ceilings, circular staircase, four bedrooms, five and a half baths, 5900 plus square feet, three car garage opens to [...]
I just hate those little white suckers and like you, I have spent my fair share of time picking them up when they have spread across the floor. Personally, I use bubble wrap and love it. I stored my entire home contents for 14 months when we built our home and had every piece of [...]
Great reporting by Steve Brown McGonigle in the Dallas Morning News on how a wealthy, Harvard-educated, Park Cities-living businessman named Rene Campos, Jr. got $1.5 million in stimulus funds for a troubled west Oak Cliff apartment complex that is in pretty bad shape. Like, some say, a slum. But no, says Campos, it’s not a [...]
Happening in Dallas real estate, happening everywhere, and I told you so, how the Obama administration thinks they’ll pay them off. Well, seems those second lien holders are holding up a lot of the negotiations between borrowers and their primary mortgage companies to whittle out a deal. And the Treasury Department is standing by, helpless. [...]
Dallas real estate in the raw! Look at this Texas-sized foreclosure on posh Waller Drive: last listed with Cindy O’Gorman for $3,995,000 and now in foreclosure as of a few days ago. RealtyTrac is saying the bidding starts at $4,495,000? I don’t think so. But that’s not to be trusted — it also says the [...]
Everyone is talking about Joel Kotkin and his dynamic new book: The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050. Joel is coming to Dallas on March 24 for an event with the Dallas Chamber of Commerce, and I can’t wait. A little over a year ago, I found a fascinating website called The New Geography and, [...]
Due to popular demand, I am going to start the Dump-of-the-Month club. Membership is free. Please understand, I love all homes, even dumps. They are all God’s children. But so many people have sent me homes that need major intervention and asked me to post them, I simply must. Or risk the wrath of many, [...]
This is what I am talking about, what I am seeing all over Dallas real estate in every neighborhood. Looks like a cute mid-century is going up here… amid a sea of 1950/1960 ranches (did I say that???) on Jamestown in North Dallas. But it appears they have kept the old foundation and even a [...]
I just got off the phone with the folks at the Mortgage Banker’s Association in D.C. for a piece I am doing for HousingWatch, and here’s an interesting aside that could affect the Dallas real estate market: in the coming weeks, the MBA will be lobbying Congress to expand the residential home mortgage interest expense [...]
There are a plethora of Dallas real estate and homes that have gone up around us where the builder seems to be using the existing old home’s foundation and some walls, old framing, etc. I need to snap a photo of one I have seen going up near Jamestown. What’s the deal with that — [...]
Charles McMillan of Irving is the 2010 immediate past president of the National Association of Realtors. He was in Washington testifying before a House Financial Services Committee that raising down payment requirements from 3.5% to 5% would lock many home buyers out of the market and stall the real estate market just as it was [...]
Why are were there banks on every corner in Dallas? I remember having conversations about this in 2007, 2008. During the boom, U.S. banks added more than 10,000 branches in affluent neighborhoods in the name of customer service: banks said they never wanted to be more than ten minutes from their customers. (As if people [...]
So pretty and bright, this home is great for a first time home-buyer OR a couple looking to downsize to dual homes. Midway Hollow is loaded with both sets of homebuyers.
Unfortunately, this great little ’hood is no longer a secret, now that a genius branded it Midway Hollow. It runs south of Walnut Hill Lane and west of Midway Road, which means it rubs shoulders with that rich cousin to the east, Preston Hollow. The word is out that you find great homes here built [...]
Nice ranch circa 1963 east of Hillcrest I found today while perusing Dallas real estate: 3536 square feet, four bedrooms, three and a half baths, three living area, and pool owned by H&R Block/Countrywide, DCAD appraised for $519,030 the bidding at Hudson&Marshall starts at $369,900.
Update: Sorry, phone rang as I finished this post. Address is [...]
