Category Archives: News

Kenny Roger’s Georgia Peach Listed for $20 Million:Post Fathers Day House Porn

Written by Candy Evans on June 26, 2011

Father’s Day was last weekend, but this spread would have made a great gift of second home real estate for Anthony Weiner: Beaver Dam Farms. The 973-acre private estate is tucked away in the rolling foothills of Athens, Georgia. It was built from the root up and designed by country music legend Kenny Rogers – betcha didn’t know he was a designer as well as a crooner and, in fact, had an interior design firm partnership in Atlanta. He sold the spread to wealthy rancher Wes Adams in 2003, who died in February. And now, Beaver Dam has just been listed privately for
$20 million.

Posted in Celebrity Homes, House Candy, News, On the Market, Real estate market news, Second Shelters | Tagged Anthony Weiner, Athens, Beaver Dam, Championship Golf Course, Country Music Legend, Georgia Real Estate, Kenny Rogers, Lanny Wadkins, New York City Apartments, second homes, Wes Adams | Comments Off

States With the Most Rooms Per Home: Everything’s Bigger in Texas and UTAH?

Written by Candy Evans on June 5, 2011

Yes, Utah, the Mormon state, home of multiple wives and big families — kidding. (Sort of.) According to recent information released by the U.S. Census Bureau, as reported by U-Haul, Utah properties have the most rooms per home, on average, followed by Texas. The Census Bureau surveyed 915 metropolitan and micropolitan areas and found out that Utah properties have the most rooms per home, on average — 7 rooms per home. (Note: I am still seeking the original source of this information.) While Texas had numerous cities on the bureau’s list, Utah areas accounted for the top five spots. In the Lone Star state, there is Brownwood, with an average of 5.7 rooms per home, the most in the state. The Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metropolitan area followed Brownwood at an average of 5.4. I really want to know where Dallas/Fort Worth, with Vaquero mixed in, stands.

Posted in Dallas real estate news, national news stories affecting second homes, News, Real Estate, Real estate market news, Second Shelters | Tagged home sizes in Texas, Lone Star State, Mormon State, National Median, States with largest homes, Theater Wine, Us Census Bureau, Utah Areas | 2 Comments

Mexicans Work the Hardest — Harder, Even, Than Americans

Written by Candy Evans on April 14, 2011

Tis true. A new study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), when comparing 29 industrialized nations, found that people in our neighbor to the south, Mexico, work the most hours both paid and unpaid. Belgium came in with the least hours of work and earliest retirement, and France wasn’t far behind. The USA was closer to Mexico…

Posted in Dallas real estate news, emerging real estate markets, News, Real Estate, Real estate market news, Second Shelters | Tagged Dalas home builders, Dallas home builders, Dallas subs, Development Oecd, Economic Cooperation, hadest working citizens, Oecd Average, Oecd Member Countries, South Mexico, Unpaid Labor | Comments Off

Dallas Real Estate News, Reduced for Quick Sale: White, Light, and Very Very Bright

Written by Candy Evans on March 28, 2011

Just getting to know the Kozelskys as they are selling their architectural jewel of Dallas real estate for sale down the street from me. Now comes word from Lynette Scruggs they have reduced this the most talked about home in Dallas to $9,750,000 from $11.5. Amy said she was testing the waters, you go girl! Stick your whole foot in! $9.750 mil will still be a record for this ‘hood. The K’s are having a little recognition party (Trailbalzers Event) for the major underwriters for Cattle Barons chez Northaven Thursday eve.

Posted in News, On the Market, Real Estate, Real estate market news, Second Shelters | Tagged Architectural Jewel, Contemporary Dallas real estate, Dallas real estate news, Dave Perry Miller & Associates, Kip, Northaven, Northaven home, Ricks, Scruggs, The most talked about home in Dallas, Tindell | 5 Comments

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

Written by Candy Evans on February 22, 2011

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 Paz, Mexico, in November that Sr. Larrazabal wanted to be closer to her family here in North Texas.) Crime there is way out of control; the city is caught in a war between two drug cartels, the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas. A U.S. Federal ICE agent was recently murdered, and the violence could be spreading to the U.S.

Posted in crime and second homes, Mexico second homes, News, Second Shelters | Tagged Drug Cartels, Gulf Cartel, La Paz Mexico, Mexico, Monterrey, Ransom Money, second homes, second homes for Mexican nationals, Third Most Populous City, Wall Street Journal | Comments Off

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

Written by Andrew Chalk on 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 of America’s fourth largest SAMA. So, it is triumphally significant that 4104 Stonebridge Dr. is “coming soon” from David Griffin Realtors and parrot-owning agent Jarrad Barnes. The yard sign has been in the tease state for a month, so this may all be a spoof.

Posted in News, Second Shelters | Tagged David Griffin, Dog Walker's Dream, Quiet Existence, Turtle Creek Boulevard, Urban Trail | 2 Comments

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

Written by Candy Evans on November 20, 2010

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:

Posted in Beach Homes, Celebrity Homes, Florida homes, News, Second Shelters | Tagged FLA, Florida homes for sale, Florida real estate, Jupiter Island, Palm Beach Gardens, second homes, Singer Island, Tiger Woods | Comments Off

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

Written by Candy Evans on November 17, 2010

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 those second (and third) homes? Rent them, of course. Or maybe trade. But to whom? My biggest fear if I had to rent my vacation home: what if they trash it? How can I know and TRUST that the folks I hand a key to won’t be house monsters?

Posted in Beach Homes, Economy, News | Tagged Facebook for vacation homes, Second porch, second shelters | Comments Off

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

Written by Candy Evans on November 17, 2010

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 themselves in the recent election: Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom. Because California, God love her, is already in a pickle and Kotkin thinks the new sheriffs will only make it worse:

Posted in California, News, Real Estate, San Diego, Second Shelters | Tagged California living, California unemployment, Joel Kotkin, Texas employment | Comments Off

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

Written by Candy Evans on November 17, 2010

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 for it, and what’s he going to do with the real estate now that he has it?