Celebrity Homes
I got a chance to chat with Jenna and Barbara Bush at Thursday’s Nexus luncheon, where I asked Jenna how the sale of the town home is going. Seems the national housing market’s double dip dip dip is affecting the former First Daughter as well. “We just reduced it,” she told me. The Baltimore townhome…
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Mike and Margaret Rawlings live at 10434 Lennox Lane about a (looonnnng) block over from Ross Perot and Phil Romano. The Strait Lane area is one of my favorite neighborhoods in town — large, leafy lots and horses and you feel like you are in the country, not smack in the center of a major…
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They say that 70% of all communication is visual, and in the last few days there has been a lot of bro ha ha concerning our three top mayoral candidates, which is making it difficult to decide who to vote for. So I decided to cast my vote based on real estate. I drove around…
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I don’t think a Dallas Realtor has ever had a gown quite like this. The bride wore a dress designed specifically for her by bridal gown designer Monique Lhuillier in Los Angeles, and Kimberly Schlegel Whitman tells me that she was under orders by Kari not to cry lest the floodgates open. Also, it was…
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This is what’s happening in real estate: the rich are getting richer and buying up trophy properties, sky’s the limit. The rest of us can eat cake. Case in point: 3820 Gillon Avenue, owned by Randall and Olamaie Fojtasek, a former partner at Hicks Muse who co-founded the private equity firm Brazos Partners. The Fojtaseks…
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If you saw a huge tent going up on the football field at SMU right behind Highland Park United Methodist Church, last week, it was not a new athletic practice facility, but it was certainly large enough to be one. The tent was for the Schlegel-Kloewer wedding reception Saturday night. And lest anyone thought this…
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