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The 10 Most Beautiful Houses in Dallas 2009

Now in our second year of scouring the city for its most beautiful houses, the D Home editors finally have the hang of this beauty pageant thing. We’ve been running the roads, armed with iPhones... (more)

The Best Real Estate Agents in Dallas 2009

How We Did It The D Magazine list of Best Real Estate Agents in Dallas is produced in partnership with Crescendo Business Services, an independent research and services firm. Crescendo... (more)

The 100 Most Expensive Homes in Dallas 2009

1 //  Cinda and Tom Hicks $41,462,030 On the one hand, the investor and sports team magnate looks to be in trouble: he recently defaulted on $525 million in loans, he’s trying to sell off... (more)

3 Important Lessons to Learn Before You Remodel

Lesson 1: You can find your dream house on Craigslist. It was October 2007. I was at the grocery store when Michael called and said, “Honey, I’ve just found a house on Craigslist. I want to... (more)

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Dallas Real Estate Peeps At The Urban Land Institute

That’s Courtney A. Underwood (and pooch!), Vice President of Asset Management, Underwood Financial, Ltd.

Dallas Real Estate AIA Home Tour: Engawa Power

This is a home I’d expect to see in California — 1810 Bermuda St. by Ron Wommack FAIA and John Rice of Ron Wommack Architect: perfect;y sized 3,500-square-foot home (3500 is the new BIG HOME) takes the shape of a two-story box.  Around two sides an engawa, a veranda of Japanese origin, anchors a linear [...]

AIA Home Tour: Ron Wommack and John Rice

Great example of homes we will see more of in the future as people want to be closer in to the city, seeking higher desity: 4143 Buena Vista St. Three units face the Katy Trail,  two freestanding units with roof decks take advantage of downtown views.  This design allows town homes to connect and seemingly disappear [...]

Annual AIA Dallas Tour of Homes Saturday, Sunday

It covers six Dallas neighborhoods from Buena Vista to Tokalon to Maple Springs, and the most influential architects in Dallas. You will see the homes of an Austin filmmaker, a textile artist, a noted art critic and book collector, and several families devoted to eco-friendly lifestyles. Can’t miss, tickets are $25, jump for details:         Seven contemporary [...]

ULI Dallas Report: America Is In A New Puritanical Environment

That’s how the expert consultants on yesterday’s powerhouse panel of Emerging Trends in Real Estate put it. Translation: luxury has been temporarily buried. (I like to say it has gone underground.) Among the many notes I have scribbled are phrases like this: 3 million young people have moved back in with their families or doubled [...]

Drexel Park Hollow Auction Saturday and Pillsbury Doughboy House Porn

November 7,  29 “luxury condominium homes” will be auctioned off by Kennedy Wilson. I was reminded of this yesterday here at the Urban Land Institute meeting in San Francisco, when I stopped by the Sheldon Good & Company booth/exhibit. Sheldon Good auctioned off the The Centrum a few years back, kind of got sales jump-started. [...]

Report From The ULI: Second Home Communities & Real Estate Trends

A long day in San Francisco, including a morning walk Wednesday in Pacific Heights, Cow Hollow and The Marina  — please see my Twitter posts. I honestly almost became a house manager in PH, I love the area so much. (Then I learned this is where Nancy Pelosi lives!) This afternoon, back to business. What in [...]

D Sale of the Week: Belmont Beauty, House of Tudor

Fairies, elves, knights in shining armour, I see all this and more in this restored 1931 built Lakewood Heights Tudor that has been restored and remodeled to sustain 21st century living. Yet it has retained the charm of yesteryear, from the exterior brick, roofline, leaded glass windows, moldings and sunroom.  6318 Belmont  is larger than [...]

Urban Land Institute Report: All We Need Is Luv and Paranoid Optimism

I may be tossing my anti-depressants after yesterday’s keynote at the ULI by The Economist former Editor- in- Chief Bill Emmott.  What is going on with this global recession, are we out of the woods, and how will it affect real estate? Emmott says he has paranoid optimism that indicators are getting better — fewer job [...]

Overheard At The Urban Land Institute Tonight

Well, when you read this, it will be what I heard last night. The deliquency rate on securitized commercial mortgages is at 4.83%, almost 5%, and that is a NINE-FOLD increase over last year. That’s mortgages on all commercial real estate, and that is not good news.

Mitchell Rasansky To Run For County Judge?

If so, maybe he regrets giving all that money back to his constituents.

Urban Land Institute Meets In San Francisco

And I’m off to SF to bring you the latest from this conference, because urban issues are affecting Dallas more these days than ever before. The ULI schedule is jam-packed, I’ll post and tweet right from the conference so stay tuned all week starting tomorrow!

Voting Day: Your Two Cents on Property Rights, Property Taxes

Get thee to the polls today! It’s voting day and there are 11 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution, including five that will affect our property rights, the property taxing authority, and who controls our dirt. Here you go, with my humble suggestions on how I will vote. Let me know quick if you disagree! Yes [...]

Dallas Real Estate: Someone Please Control This Kitchen

I am being totally serious when I tell you that this is the way the agent photographed this charming starter home on Bonham Street and then PUBLISHED the photo. Wait, it gets better — check out the rest of the mess. Is the stove torn up or what? Not enough cabinet space obi? Call 1-800 [...]

Dallas Neighborhood Battles: NSO On Desco Drive?

It exhausts me keeping up with the neighborhood wars in this town — the conservation district battle in the Disney Streets, and now Desco Drive wants to do conservation light: the Neighborhood Stabilization Overlay.

Subprime Loan Meltdown: Goldman Bet It Both Ways

Must read/see, this report by McClatchy Newspapers’ Greg Gordon, a five-month investigative report on how Goldman Sachs, otherwise known as Government Sachs, peddled more than $40 billion in securities on 200,000 risky home mortgages, but at the same time it was peddling these as investments, the company also bought $20 billion in insurance betting that [...]

Will CIT’s Bankruptcy Filing Affect Dallas Real Estate?

By now you’ve heard that CIT Group has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Taxpayers, who gave the company 2.3 billion last year, will likely not be re-paid. I’m not discounting that, but even worse, CIT is one of the country’s largest lenders to small business and retailers, like Neiman Marcus. Two months prior to [...]

Dallas Real Estate: In Case You Are Wondering…

Why our market seems to be in the doldrums, check out this editorial by Peggy Noonan. All the grown ups are gone. She details a national malaise that is the basic reason why people aren’t buying and selling (real estate or anything) in this country. One agent told me he has a client who wants [...]

Dallas Real Estate: I Wouldn’t Come Near This House

What happens when that offer is too low.

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