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Wonder How The Mayor of Monterrey, Mexico is Doing in North Texas

By Candy Evans | February 22, 2011 | Comments Off on Wonder How The Mayor of Monterrey, Mexico is Doing in North Texas

Remember when the Wall Street Journal told us crime was so bad in Mexico that even the Mayor of Monterrey, Fernando Larrazabal had fled and re-located his family to the Dallas area? (I found out it was to Las Colinas, and y’all got mad at me. I also found out on a visit to La…

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Another Secret House (Almost As Secret as the First One) for Sale in Dallas

By Andrew Chalk | January 6, 2011 |

Nobody ever sells on Stonebridge Drive in Dallas (well, two were sold in the neighborhood whole of last year).  The street has anti-tank berms at the north end that virtually eliminate rush hour rat-runners and drunken revelers lost after midnight. It makes for a quiet existence, dismembered from the hurly-burly of living in the heart…

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House Porn: Tiger Wood’s Jupiter Island Private Home and Golf Course

By Candy Evans | November 20, 2010 | Comments Off on House Porn: Tiger Wood’s Jupiter Island Private Home and Golf Course

Tiger Woods is one dude who appreciates, among other things,  second homes. Jeff Lichtenstein of Christie’s Great Estates & Illustrated Properties in Palm Beach Gardens, sent us a first glimpse of Tiger Wood’s backyard and private practice complex –click on that photo, this is great House Porn: “It appears he has one tee box in…

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Second Homes Need Second Porch — New Facebook Site for 7.5 Million Vacation Home Owners

By Candy Evans | November 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Second Homes Need Second Porch — New Facebook Site for 7.5 Million Vacation Home Owners

How To Find A Face Behind the Place. Did you know there are more than 7.5 million second home owners in the U.S? I did, of course. And I also know there are about a million more properties out there waiting for owners. In the meantime, what do current second home owners do to monetize…

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California’s Death Wish: Texas Says, Here’s a Knife

By Candy Evans | November 17, 2010 | Comments Off on California’s Death Wish: Texas Says, Here’s a Knife

More beating on surfin’ dudesville. Joel Kotkin, who was in Dallas last Friday, is on his Texas kick again and I just love it. In fact, I’ve offered to help him find a house in Texas and just move in. This time he’s talking about the political and social and plain insane suicide Californians dealt…

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Dallas Real Estate News: A Sam’s Club or West Village at Walnut Hill and Central Expressway?

By Candy Evans | November 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Dallas Real Estate News: A Sam’s Club or West Village at Walnut Hill and Central Expressway?

Kidding. Sort of. The folks who live near those 42 vacant acres at Central and Walnut Hill are going to be tripping over ‘dozers and cement trucks now that a Missouri investor has snapped up the land and created a new chapter for Dallas real estate. But the question is, how much did he pay…

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