Archive for January, 2011

The Art of Negotiation when Selling your Home

Monday, January 31st, 2011

Although it is still very much a buyer

Palatial Super Bowl Accommodations On Dallas Real Estate Radar

Friday, January 28th, 2011

Just like when the Olympics are in a U.S. City, there is always a shortage for temporary housing, as the hotel rooms are booked up years in advance. The same scenario occurs each year when the Super Bowl descends on a major city in America, and people are scrambling for luxury accommodations down to pitching a tent in someone’s backyard. Well this year you and a group of friends can go in style as the widow of the Guy Mascolo estate is renting out the Dallas Texas mansion for the upper crust, or corporate clients that can afford the price tag of three hundred thousand dollars for five nights, and can include up to eighteen people in the group.

You might think that is a lofty price but when you throw in the five star resort digs, Super Bowl Tickets, and the use of their private jet, the value starts to come in focus for those with this sort of disposable income. Kim Williams who is the brains behind this marketing extravaganza said that if you take eighteen people, and they each have to come up with their own accommodations, tickets, dining expenses, and travel, it would be about the same cost. Then there are some perks with this package deal that the Hilton by the airport will surely not offer, and that would be the use of the owner’s personal Ferrari, limo service to and from the game, and a add a couple four course gourmet dining experiences at the estate by your own personal chef.

The four-acre, twenty thousand square foot estate is about a thirty-minute drive from the stadium, and has nine bedrooms, each having it’s on bath suite. It also sports the usual goodies for the wealthy like a personal media room for watching TV and movies, outdoor gourmet kitchen including a stone pizza oven, and let us not forget the full size game room which a complete bar for libations.

The services provided during stay at the rented castle include full concierge services, use of limo service during the stay, and VIP reservations for the top nightclubs in the area. In addition, breakfast will be served every morning, a special brunch on Sunday before the game starts that includes bubbly, and Bloody Mary service.

For the cherry on top of this exclusive package you also have the option of on premises steam sauna for up to six people at one time, full equipped fitness center, heated pool, Jacuzzi tub, and an Oxygen bar to round off the offerings. This is Dallas real estate at it

The Landing at Waterstone: Frisco

Monday, January 24th, 2011

The Frisco new home market is resilient and even quite active, considering the lag in the Texas new home market. It

Downtown Dallas

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

The Victory Park project, which has been taken over by a group of German investors, will now be under new management.

The German investors have hired a new firm, Cousins Properties, to take over this complicated project, thereby sparking debate over whether they can sort out the potentially difficult process of helping this massive development with sales and retail leasing.

Cousins Properties, which has been operating in Dallas since the 1990s, will now begin helping the downtown Dallas condo market by increasing condo sales, among other things.

Welcoming in New Management

The original Victory Park developer, Hillwood, who released itself from ownership in the troubled Victory Park development in April 2009, handed over the property to a German real estate fund, US Treuhand, at that time.

Since April 2009, US Treuhand has dumped more than $180 million into the Victory Park project, which included the downtown Dallas condo market. These new owners, in an attempt to breathe life into the Victory Park project, handed over the management reigns to Cousins to deal with the leasing and planning for the development.

A Bright Future for Victory Park

As of January 1, Cousins will take over the Victory Park

Highland Park Luxury Homebuyers Seek Low-Maintenance Living

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

It

Collin County

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Legacy Town Center in Plano is a mixed-use development that started over ten years ago. This well-known Collin county development has been called the most successful mixed-use development in North Texas and has, no doubt, had an incredible impact on the Collin County real estate market.

Hemingway Court: A Coppell New Home Community

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

We love Coppell for its quaint, small-town feeling, its superb, Dallas-Fort Worth location, and its fantastic supply of beautiful homes. There are plenty of Coppell new home communities from which to choose, including Hemingway Court, a beautiful new development that boasts outstanding features and an enviable location in North Texas