Urban Second Homes

Super Bowl XLV Creates Significant Growth for Dallas/Fort Worth Rental Market

By Candy Evans | February 2, 2011 | Comments Off on Super Bowl XLV Creates Significant Growth for Dallas/Fort Worth Rental Market

It is a tribute to the power of the real estate market that one of the major advertisers in this year’s game, again, is HomeAway.com. (Click here to see their unique, customizable spot — travelers can insert their faces as a main character in the commercial and vacation rental home owners can feature their listings.…

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Dallas Real Estate News, Super Bowl XLV Rentals: DFW House Porn’s Finest Hour

By Candy Evans | January 24, 2011 |

It’s the Steelers versus Green Bay! This is a guest post from my Arlington, Texas correspondent and fellow House Porn lover John Burgdorf: Superbowl XLV comes to town soon and Arlington will be filled with Pit and cheese fans needing beautiful homes, sexy homes. John did some research to bring us the best. Hurry, Steeler…

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House Porn, New York City Style, Continued

By Candy Evans | January 18, 2011 | Comments Off on House Porn, New York City Style, Continued

I found this jazzy website showcasing 5 East 44th, and listening to it just reminded me of the good old days when properties could be sold for $1500 per square foot. (Ah, those were the days.) Also found out this building  is one of the narrowest “slivers” in midtown, only 28 feet wide, designed by…

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Dallas Real Estate News: Mockingbird Station Developer Goes Belly-Up in Fort Worth

By Candy Evans | December 30, 2010 |

That would be Ken Hughes, who just lost 29 unsold condos in the ArtHouse section of So7, the residential, office and retail development next to Trinity Park on Fort Worth’s near west side. The Fort Worth Star Telegram reports the units were sold to an Arlington-based real estate investment group called PassGoLtd., after the property…

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Secret House on Secret Street in Not So Secretive Dallas

By Candy Evans | December 21, 2010 | Comments Off on Secret House on Secret Street in Not So Secretive Dallas

Guest post by Andrew Chalk Let’s say you wanted to live in a second home in Dallas, so you could get away from it all without actually stepping one tootsie outside of Dallas. Try this pup. It is not on Zillow. It is not on Google. Even the street is private. However, it is just…

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Second Home Real Estate: Ten Top Trends of Second Home Buyers

By Candy Evans | December 2, 2010 |

1. Second home trends: Affluent Baby Boomers will retire later and downsize from their large McMansions for which utilities and taxes have become prohibitive, to smaller homes, maybe condos,  in the city and a second home — in the cheaper boonies, or in another city. Just last night a reader emailed me that his biggest…

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