Introducing Our New Miami-Based Correspondent, From the State Where You Can Never Be Too Thin, Too Rich or Have Too Much Sunshine

By Candy Evans | December 22, 2011 |

Meet Andrea Kavanagh, our new SecondShelters.com Miami contributor. Andrea is a writer and public relations specialist with a passion for real estate and interior design. A seventh-generation Texan, Andrea was recently scooped away from her GORGEOUS home in Preston Hollow to the Sunshine State by her dashing groom, Ken, a Miami-native. Like me, she is…

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DeMarcus Ware’s $2.198 Million Castleton Manor Would Make the Perfect Second Home in Texas

By Candy Evans | December 22, 2011 | Comments Off on DeMarcus Ware’s $2.198 Million Castleton Manor Would Make the Perfect Second Home in Texas

If you are looking for a 9,000 square foot plus second home in Texas that is a hop, skip and jump from D/FW with the added plus of no state income taxes, well, thank DeMarcus Ware. The Dallas Cowboys linebacker just plopped his home, Castleton Manor at 6900 Rockingham Court, on the market with a price tag of…

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Second Home Madness: Did Real Estate Wreak Havoc on the Marriage of Deion and Pilar Sanders? Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans | December 19, 2011 |

This is the $2 million house in Heath, Texas that Pilar Sanders wanted Deion to buy her about a month ago. Her and her mother, alone. It’s 11,000 square feet, has two four-car garages to hold the Bentley’s on either side of the house, two master suites designed after the suites at Caesar’s Palace in Vegas,…

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Dallas Will Be a Second Home for Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom

By Candy Evans | December 19, 2011 |

Anyone have a luxurious, furnished condo to lease preferably at the Ritz? If so, contact Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom’s agent stat. Or brother Rob Kardashian — he’s moving here, too. Pretty soon, we’ll have all of the Kardashians in Big D. I know agents who are dusting off listings with power vacs but honestly, they only want to lease. The NY…

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Charles Dilbeck: An Historical Ranch In Dallas Was Moved, Restored, Painstakenly Preserved

By Candy Evans | December 9, 2011 |

This amazing home in Westlake, Texas started as a ranch when Westlake was nothing more than a farm town. I drove out to see this spread one crisp, fall day and am still in a trance – maybe why it’s taken me 1500 words to post it. Not only is it a ranch house originally designed by…

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Costa Rica Is The Hottest Second Home Market South of the Border: The Palms

By Candy Evans | December 9, 2011 |

Tonight Jane McGarry and I talked about my recent trip to Costa Rica, where I stayed in some of the most amazing vacation homes in the world right smack on the beach at The Palms in Playa Flamingo. Honestly, I have never been so close to the beach but still sleeping in a luxurious bed! Playa…

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