Articles for April 23rd, 2008
Coffee And Real Estate
So Starbucks is blaming lowered earnings on the Real Estate market in California and Florida. (Full dis — I own a wee bit of SBUX.) Maybe we ought to blame management that doesn’t stop and think gee, gas is $3.50 a gallon in Texas, probably $4.00 a gallon in CA and FLA. If it costs the average consumer $1200 more a year just to fill up their cars, is it any wonder folks don’t have much left over for a $4.50 Frappacino Latte?
House Porn Overfloweth
Mid-century modern glam designed by architect Pedro Aguirre just under $900K in the glorious White Rock Lake area….I am in love.
Wanna Live On Park Lane? Four Million Dollar Foreclosure
I found 5810 Park Lane on the Roddy Real Estate Foreclosure List — assessed value is $4,259,310. Original amount of loan was $4 million, unpaid balance $3,923,216. Here’s what makes me a bit sad: as you know, I’m a new house gal and I do prefer well-designed, well-scaled new construction. (In fact, I almost have to have new construction as much as I insist on marble around my jetted tub.) (And build as big as you want, it’s your money.) This house — 9307 square feet on at least an acre lot. What kills me is they tore down a perfectly elegant white home with stately columns that just exhaled “Southern charm and grace.” Mint julips. Love me those white columns, but gone. For. This. I bet I can find you a photo of what was there before… hint to Trustee: get some more trees out there fast.
SOLD!!!
In Bluffview, Canyon Drive- HOT! That’s what happens when I put Hot Props on Dallas Dirt!
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