Exclusive: Inside Edition Comes To Dallas To Scout Possible Bush Home

After President Bush’s Houston declaration that First Lady Laura Bush was in Dallas house-hunting, the national media is perusing our market. Yesterday, Inside Edition contacted Blanche Evans with Dallas-based Realty Times, who promptly dialed up Pierce Allman at Allie Beth Allman and Associates. (Allie Beth is one of the agents reportedly helping the Bushes find a Dallas home. Other names include Pancho Hunt and Steve Collins with Virginia Cook.) IE wanted to see the type of home the Bushes might buy, says Will Seals, an ABA agent who was pulled into the fray because of family connections with the Bushes.

“I know the Bush family and they are not fancy people,” Will says. “The kind of home they would want is casual and family oriented. I mean, these are people who buy Pottery Barn furniture.”

The rumors run the gamut from Joyce and Larry Lacerte’s estate at 5323 Park Lane, on the market with Ralph Randall at David Griffin and Associates for $45 million and the location of several Republican fundraising events, to the lot at the corner of Euclid and Highland. Recent rumors posted on this blog include the North Dallas Forty and Bluffview.

Being the good guy, Will showed IE the corner of Euclid and Highland and speculated about why it might be a great location for the president — close to the police station, room enough for a plethora of secret service agents. And why not: $5 to $7 million. Then he showed them an ABA listing on Beverly built by Provenance Properties, award-winning builder Dan McKeithen: 3210 Beverly Drive. Price tag: $3,145,000. The kind of home the President and Mrs. Bush might actually want: elegant, loaded, restored from 1941 but not over-the-top. Not like Andrew Merrick’s $15 million spec house down the street, also touted as a potential Bush residence because of its stellar, super-strong construction.

Stay tuned: Newsweek is on the line.