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Dallas developer buys home once owned by “First Lady of Real Estate”
The home was last valued for taxes at just under $1 million
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One of the best-known commercial real estate developers in Dallas bought a 3,700-square-foot home once owned by Ebby Halliday, known as the “First Lady of Real Estate.”
Built in 1967, the home was most recently owned by the Ebby Halliday Foundation, a charitable organization set up after Halliday’s death at 104 in 2015. It has four bedrooms and three baths and was last valued for taxes at just under $1 million.
Neighbors Gabriel and Ann Barbier-Mueller bought the 3,700-square-foot house, on about a half acre next door to the “little white house” on Northwest Highway that Halliday used as an office, according to the Dallas Morning News.
The smaller colonial-style cottage dates back to the 1920s and was a town hall in the early 1940s. After Halliday acquired it, the property served as a field office for developers turning farmland north of Dallas into neighborhoods.
The Barbie-Muellers now own two homes next to Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. Gabriel Barbie-Mueller’s Harwood International is developing the 19-block Harwood District, a high-rise mixed-use project just north of downtown Dallas.
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[Dallas Morning News] – Maddy Sperling