Two Sales, Two Days, $23M in Dallas’ Top Neighborhoods

A pair of North Dallas homes sold within a day of each other, totaling almost $24 million in listing price volume in a couple of the area’s toniest enclaves.

The estate of the late Barron Kidd, a North Texas rancher and oilman, sold his one-time Highland Park home to an LLC registered to Sarah Penn James on July 31, according to recently released public records. The next day, prominent entertainment agent Gary Osier sold his Old Preston Hollow home to Jeffrey and Lori Runnfeldt, an investor and boutique proprietor, respectively.

Both homes listed in the spring and landed on the Houston Association of Realtors’ ranking of the ten most expensive residential listings in the state in May.

The Kidd property in Highland Park, a 1936 six-bedroom, six-bathroom home on Glenwood Avenue, was asking $11.5 million when it sold — almost $2,000 per square foot for the 6,000-square-foot property. Located in a conservation district and platted as its own subdivision for the seller in 1997, the verdant lot includes a putting area, a greenhouse and a stream fed by Turtle Creek. Compass agent Elly Holder had the listing.

The 90-year-old, tree-cloaked Kidd home has little in common with Osier’s 10-year-old contemporary build of glass and steel in Preston Hollow. The five-bedroom, seven-bathroom, 10,300-square-foot home is on a 1.1-acre lot on Park Lane. Osier, whose clients include Foreigner, Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler and the Beach Boys, was asking $11.7 million for the home when it sold, or about $1,000 per square foot. The property includes a guest casita and a pool. Allie Beth Allman and Associates agent Alex Perry had the listing.

Final sale prices are unavailable.

The two are the first to sell among ultra-luxury homes that listed statewide in late April and May. Most of their peers on HAR’s May top ten list, including Mehrdad Moayedi’s spec mansion near the Crespi Estate in Dallas and a waterfront estate in Horseshoe Bay, are still for sale.