And the price was?

$4,9995,000

Now listed with Becky Frey at Briggs Freeman and under contract, last asking $3,850,000.

Architectural design by David Stocker of Stocker, Hoestercy, Montenegro Architects & built by Rusty Goff in 2006 on 1.3 acres.

And I’ll bet you $100 the sales price will be “Z” d out.

OK, let the guessing games begin. How much will this fabulous home sell for — truly one of the most beautiful new homes built in Dallas in the last ten years…

Update: Erin called to remind me she sold 6506 (not 09, my dyslexia cropping up today) 5/14/2009 for $3,500,000. Which made me dig deeper to see a few interesting facts. The home was originally listed at $5.6 in 2008. Property taxes then were $28,950. Property taxes at the current appraised value ($3,209,000) are — are you sitting down?

$72,031.66.

And you wonder why this area wants to de-annex!

Walking through the front door and past an elegant aquarium filled with exotic tropical fish and coral, you’ll be reminded of Miami. Continue through the sweeping dining room, past the kitchen decked out in Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances and granite-slab counters, and into the dramatic great room floating above the trees, and you’ll get a sense of New York City design coupled with an upstate New York countryside view. A board conference room and library overlook the pool and forest beyond, perfect for those who prefer to work from home. In fact, with a movie theater, gym, and saltwater infinity “floating” pool just steps away, you never really have to leave the grounds.

Quality infuses every detail of this home: the silent, automated window coverings; the exquisite wood cabinets; the wood-lined elevator complete with a state-of-the-art phone system. In the master suite, which along with an adjacent patio is suspended above the trees, the blinds move with the touch of a finger, and the artfully rendered light fixtures provide peaceful illumination.

But for all its ethereal beauty, Oak Mount Place has rock-solid vitals: built in 2009, the home has 6026 square feet, four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, and three decks overlooking the woods and that gorgeous pool and spa. Walls of glass surround the kitchen, family and living areas, but the area is so secluded, those automatic window coverings might not even be necessary.

This house—designed by Mark Domiteaux, built by Ron Smith of Quorum Design + Construct, and expertly decorated by Ron’s wife, interior designer Abby Smith—would be right at home in Malibu. Lucky for you its owners chose North Dallas, where it’s available for a mere $2,750,000 (in Preston Hollow it could easily fetch $5 million). Before you sneeze at the price, go see it. Very motivated sellers who have put their heart and soul into this home are ready to say goodbye, and I have to tell you, the interior rivals that of a certain famous white house on Northaven Road.

Listed with Suzy Hotchkiss of Ebby Halliday.

Anyhow, this all took place in North Texas where Saran had 23 pharmacies, a pregnant wife and a mansion under construction. He was arrested on September 21, 2005 on charges in a 210-count federal indictment. He plead guilty in 2006, and was sentenced last December to serve 12 years in federal prison, plus dish out $68 million in restitution for being part of the Internet pharmacy scheme. He also lost all the assets acquired through his illegal druggie activities, including the home. Which too bad, because the market was just heating up in 2006. The home is 22,000 square feet and has seven-bedrooms, eight full bathrooms, four half-bathrooms, and sits on 2.6 acres. It has an indoor pool, all heated marble floors, a theater and exercise room, dance studio, sauna, five fireplaces . A three-panel mural in the master was commissioned by an Italian artist who Saran flew in from Italy to do the work. (According to news reports, Saran was pulling in more than $50,000 a day in profit from his internet biz.) The feds sold it to an Austin investor in 2008  for $1.2 million, who fixed it up to the nines and was then asking $3.7 million. The residence has been listed on the market for over a year, and has not had any qualified buyers despite its proximity (4 miles) from Cowboy Stadium. Can you think of a more perfect pad for Superbowl XLV on February 6, 2011?

So I checked the online bidding, and a minimum bid of $1,500,000 has been set. So far, no bids for 2324 Panorama Court. I mean, I’d pay $1.5 and then lease it out during the Superbowl, then turn it into a plastic surgery retreat. What do you think– worth it?

Sales price: what’s your guess?

I made my husband watch that movie years ago, then went out and bought a rabbit.

A high profile plastic surgeon has been hovering over a gorgeous home listed by Doris Jacobs. Price tag: $4,999,999.

OK, that is a lot but as we all know plastic surgeons pull in big bucks because, while people cannot seem to afford to pay for their pap smears and yearly checkups and gall bladder operations and kid’s tonsillitis, they do manage to drop $15,000 for face-lifts, $8,000 for boob jobs, and thousands for Juvederm and Restalyne and Botox. And I am not complaining one bit because I am an avid consumer of all those products and services. In fact, I got great Botox about two weeks ago. The greatest thing about our health care system, really, is that it frees up discretionary income for plastic surgery. Nor do I think plastic surgeons should earn a penny less because they are exceedingly bright and train forever at great expense and deserve every morsel they earn, unlike insurance company CEOs. Besides, plastic  surgeons beautify America!

So yes, we are not surprised that a fabulous surgeon whose services are in highest demand (and whose wife is also a physician)  would be looking at such expensive a home. Here is a man relatively untouched by recession. I am told he put a bid on this home, then extended the option period twice, then backed out the other day at 5:01 for p.m.

Everyone has cold feet. Met a businessman who travels extensively last week, he told me the entire country is basically on hold until the November elections. There is no certainty, only uncertainty; no major business decisions  being made, very little hiring. About the only influx of newcomers we have in Texas is the expats escaping the drug cartel wars in Mexico. Maybe we should all go to the beach ’till November?

I talked with my landscaper today, who used to drive through Monterrey on the way home to see his parents in Mexico:  he told me he no longer drives through Mexico.

“It’s terrible,” he says. “My wife, she is afraid. They are killing people in Monterrey every day. EVERY day!”

It’s the drug cartels, he told me, and he blames the Mexican government for not wanting to accept any assistance from the U.S. There have been 350 killings in Monterrey this year, which is the third most populous city in Mexico with 3.7 million people. August 18 the body of the mayor of nearby Santiago,  Edelmiro Cavazos, was found on the outskirts of Monterrey, an industrial center with close U.S. business ties. Two doctoral students have been killed, guests at a Holiday Inn kidnapped, and the cartels killed two bodyguards right in front of a school. Many Americans and even some wealthier Mexican are out of there and ending up in Texas — so in a perverse way, this could be good for our property values.

This will not bode well for developers, who are trying to sell beautiful properties all over Mexico. (Who cares if you can now hold title to land right up to the beach if you have to have a ten o clock curfew from the cartels?) We’ve been to Playa Del Carmen, Cabo and San Miguel D”Allende, which is magically beautiful. I felt so safe there, I jogged in the streets and wandered around alone at night when my husband turned in early. Two weeks ago we were watching Dateline and almost gagged when we heard the story of a rancher who was kidnapped and held hostage for over a year in a box, beaten, shot, barely fed, all to extort ransom money from his American-born wife. Guess where this happened: San Miguel D’Allende. On the show, the couple, who were both in real estate, said initially they were asked to keep quiet about the kidnapping for fear of the damage it would do the to real estate community.

I’d like to know where Fernando Larrazabal is house hunting in Dallas, and where he lands.

Here’s what I think: they are getting too much sun from the east into the home. What do you think?

All of which means Kari and Kirby’s 29th floor W condo is back on the market and now reduced to $10, 750,000. From 11,750,000. Go for it!

Newer can really be better…  and these homes are babes. None built prior to 2003.

I told my husband I’d save him by getting lots of plastic surgery and then he can just pretend I’m a trophy.

But after seeing this list, not so sure.

Tell us: any homes you think we missed?

He found this tidbit in “Deadline Hollywood” and it’s rather exciting neighborhood news: Kim Gatlin’s “Good Christian Bitches” could very, very well become a weekly TV series. No kidding: three networks are bidding on it and the script has already been written by Steel Magnolias and The First Wives Club scribe Robert Harling, based on the book Kim wrote.

Which was given to me by the darling Brenda Baugh (cast her!) when she was listing 3500 Beverly. I read the book in about five minutes.

The project is being called a “Desperate Housewives in Dallas. Cannot wait. It center’s on Gatlin’s character,  Amanda Vaughn, a divorced mother of two who leaves her philandering Hollywood hubby to come home to Mama and Daddy in HILLSIDE PARK, where she tries to purge her bad marriage by plunging into the charity circuit. She winds up the victim of malicious gossip, bad Botox, and fraud, all because she’s a beautiful, sexy, vivacious woman who her friends cast as their rival. Enough good-looking single women over 30, they say, we don’t need another one. And of course, it all starts at Bible study.

You’ll never guess: the richest oil guy in town falls for her, buys her a Maybach.  And her charity event is sabotaged. What’s weird is I was thinking of this book during last year’s Cattle Baron’s fiasco – remember?

But this could be very good for Dallas real estate right about now. Another TV series highlighting our enhancements and homes? Location scouts, listen up: I’ve got the perfect house for  Amanda’s “rental”: 4441 South Versailles.

PS: I looked up Kim’s address, is it true she lives in Rockwall?

The kids are back in school so it’s time to relax with a glass of  wine and House Porn! (Well, at least until car pool time!) I could not resist this brand new Lakewood listing — kind of makes me feel like Medieval Times.  Which in a way, it is. This historic castle on one acre in the  heart of Deep Lakewood was the former estate of  Dallas Mayor Robert Thornton and Edwin Cox — two famous owners in its DNA. A true Dallas landmark with exquisite landscaping, classic architecture, and English tudor everywhere. Built in 1929, 6941 Gaston has four bedrooms, three baths, and 3,200 air conditioned square feet. (Ah, remember when 3,200 square feet was an enormous home?) Only $795,000, but I do think it needs some work. Still, slate roof. Stone and brick facade. Check out the little cannon in the front. Wonder if still functional.