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Hunter Mahan’s Magnificent House Hits the Market With Golf Simulator, BBall...
This is a home I have waited to see with bated breath. Hunter and Kandi Mahan spent more than two years painstakingly building this near-perfection home on one gorgeous acre in the Creeks of Preston...
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KXAS Channel 5 Reports Dallas Developer Suing Prominent Plastic Surgeon From...
Oh brother, this is a sad, sad story that came across Channel 5 KXAS-TV Wednesday night. In fact, it is almost unbelieveable. Involves one of the most renown plastic surgeons in town, and a respected...
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Inwood Home of the Week: This Beauty on Belclaire on 1/2 Acre Just Might...
Some homes are such surprises inside, a total shocker from a drab front elevation or facade. Others look like Cameron Diaz on the front, gag you when you open the door and walk in. Then there is 4412...
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East Dallas Residents Lose Fight Against Big Box Sam’s Club, Say They’ve Only...
I got to City hall for the tail end of it, but in enough time to learn that the Dallas plan commission did not agree to re-open debate on the controversial Sam’s Club down near Cityplace, called East...
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More Really Rich Peeps in Dallas Fort Worth (Southlake), Which Is Really...
There is good news today for the Dallas luxury real estate market, and one reason why there has been a flurry of mega mansion home sales the last few weeks. There are more rich people in Dallas....
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You Simply Have to See Dallas City Councilwoman Vonciel Hill’s Swimming Pool:...
Photo courtesy of Eric Nicholson, The Dallas Observer I was outside yesterday for a little bit, trying to put in a basil garden for maybe an hour. Came in and was so bitten up I had to get out the...
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Maple Terrace: How Does a Property Obtain a Historical Designation?
I called up David Preziosi, Executive Director of Preservation Dallas, to see if he thought the Maple Terrace might qualify for landmark status to keep it from being swallowed up by a developer who...
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Estate Sale of the Week: Like Majolica? You’ll LOVE this North Dallas Sale
Like I don’t need one more thing in my home but several bags to take stuff out, but I cannot pass up a good Majolica sale. So head up to 11737 High Forest Drive, just off Forest Lane in between Inwood...
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WTF? Why Are They Painting This Uptown Church BLUE???
Update: Robert Wilonsky took this story and did his magic, finding out that, are you ready, the designer who is painting this church blue is Gary Riggs! Thanks to Pete Peabody for alerting me this...
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Highland House Rezoning Tabled ‘Til October, Pending Land Use Study for...
Last Thursday, the Dallas Plan Commission voted to postpone a decision on rezoning for 6215 Westchester, proposed site of the Highland House luxury apartments a Dallas developer wants to build in the...
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How To Remove Graffiti 101 If a House is Struck Before a Showing, & Don’t...
As we reported late yesterday, Oak Lawn’s Legacy of Love Monument, Cathedral of Hope, plus other buildings were vandalized by nasty graffiti early Sunday morning including the building that houses The...
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Do We Demonize the Suburbs? Sad, Because That’s Where the Immigrants Are in...
Really thoughtful piece by Jacqueline Floyd, who lives in “a peaceful Denton County suburb”, in Sunday’s Dallas Morning News. She says that after all of last week’s Rah Rah Urbanism activity — you know...
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Occupy Texas: This Lakewood Tuscan Villa Gets Top Billing in Film Now...
Remember the Lakewood Home Festival? One of the coolest homes on the tour belonged to Shannon Kincaid and Allen Stringer, she being the artist whose paintings have been snapped up by Oprah Winfrey,...
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Brandon McCarthy’s Uptown Loft Will Give You a 360 Degree View of Friday’s...
Whoa, this is one of those units that deserves the “O” word. Or maybe I should say, the “A” word. This is the Uptown loft of Arizona Diamondback right-handed pitcher Brandon McCarthy and his wife,...
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Is D.R. Horton Being a Good Neighbor at Bryan Place? We Think Not So Much
A reader alerts us to the building DR Horton is doing a less than stellar job of corporate responsibility at their Bryan Place development called “Exall Townhomes”. “I pass by this eyesore of a...
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A Happy Fourth of July House & Spouse: Sister’s Dying Wish, How the Home Held...
Villa DeVita in Venice, Fla., has 19,000 square feet of air conditioned area to go with 101 acres of fenced horse pasture, a paddock, guest house, equipment barn and a race track. It has been on and...
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Monday Morning Millionaire: Inside One of the Most Beautiful Homes in Dallas,...
Every so often, a landmark Dallas home comes along for sale that makes you catch your breath and want to mortgage your first-born child so you can buy it. Such is the Herman and Mimi Lay estate at 4935...
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Lea Anne Laughlin Joins the Sales Team at Bleu Ciel, Harwood International’s...
Formerly a powerhouse sales force at Museum Tower, Lea Anne joins up with Niña Tollett, Andrew Danna, Sheila Bryant, and Corri Smith to sell sell sell right through the Bleu Ciel!
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Cleveland! Pretty Sure the Republicans Have Gone Bonkers
Word comes that Dallas has lost the GOP Convention in 2016 to Cleveland, Ohio. The reasons are that Ohio is a swing state, and apparently Dallas could not accommodate the GOP’s preferred June, 2016...
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Live Like a $30,000 Millionaire? Lease a Condo at The Residences at the...
Wouldn’t you just love to have an address that says, “Ritz” without actually OWNING it? Talk about the $30,000 Millionaire! Maybe there is one, maybe there are two, but there are no more units at the...
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