Eric Nicholson is in the habit of tossing babies around, so his new place will require high ceilings. Eric Nicholson is the new Robert Fingers of Fury Wilonsky . The young journo, formerly of the...
Fernando M. Alva was a dear friend. I had not seen him for about nine months, but on Wednesday afternoon, May 9, I had a fleeting vision of him in my mind as I worked on a blog post. Call him, I told...
Meet Richard Soto, owner/broker of VIP Realty here in Dallas. Richard has an interesting story: he is an agent who spends more time on marketing and SEO than he actually does selling . That s...
Artists and live music on Saturdays and a five star hotel? A viable urban village at one of the country s busiest intersections? Scott Beck grew up at Valley View Mall, the same mall he bought about a...
Have I ever told you my story, why I am so obsessed with real estate and why I blog? It goes like this: I was a journalist, a magazine journalist, who covered real estate as a journalistic beat, then...
Elliot Gould. Sigh. Thought you saw some celebs zipping around town this weekend? It was movie week in Dallas, and film lovers enjoyed great screenings at the Angelika from the 42nd annual USA Film...
To a real estate junkie like me, this was almost as exciting as getting a new Porsche : People are starting to get wise about Standard & Poor s Case-Shiller report. Did you notice that numbers came...
Comes word from The New York Post that the richest neighborhoods in New York are the ones where the most cheating goes on, apparently. The New York Post called in Noel Biderman, he the CEO of the site...
Ira found my soft spot the moment he told me he went to Dartmouth College . (Fodder: Dave Perry-Miller agent Stephen Collins is also a Dartmouth grad.) Granted, he was there ahead of me by a few...
Here s a home that would have been a great find for that piece in the New York Times on how hot the Dallas Design District has become . Not only are developers building lofts and $5000 a month...
Valley View Mall has apparently been purchased by the Jeff Beck family , who plans to turn the hollow, seemingly vacated, 39 year old mall into an outdoor complex called Dallas Midtown. According to...
Mark Doty is a treasure trove of information. He seems to know the history of Dallas architecture backwards and forwards, no small feet from a man who grew up in Abilene. Doty, who works as a senior...
The Stammen Family put their house on the market as they look for a more country locale. Thad Stammen is a family man. Nothing supports that notion more than Stammen s willingness to move his family...
If you are as frustrated as I have been over the state of the nation s mortgage industry, you might want to join me Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. at The Blue Fish (18149 North Dallas Parkway) to hear experts...
Hopefully we ll be seeing fewer of these signs in the next 12 months. So, we have good news and bad news. Which do you want first? Well, the good news is that, after a relatively mild recession, the...