MLS# 13228477

Stunning, one-owner home located on St. Laurent Place in exclusive Caruth Homeplace. The family commissioned the acclaimed architect/designer John Astin Perkins to create this single-story gem ... an example of the finest in elegance and craftsmanship. A dramatic, canopied approach leads to double entry doors that open to a stately foyer. Beyond are a spectacular dining room and 26 x 20 foot great room overlooking a landscaped courtyard. In the great room are a beautiful fireplace, a wet bar and floor to ceiling built-ins. The living areas and kitchen have French-Brown hardwood floors in herringbone and Bordeaux patterns. Ceilings of 9-12 feet, custom doors and windows, and exquisite millwork, moldings and hardware are featured throughout. Split bedroom floor plan includes two guest bedrooms, each with a bath. Private master suite with built-in wardrobe cabinets, dual bath and walk-in closet. Large, center island kitchen and breakfast room with a wall of windows opening to an additional courtyard. Abundant closet space throughout the house and additional storage in the oversized utility room and garage. Caruth Homeplace amenities include pools, club house, tennis courts, a fitness facility, manicured grounds and patrol.

If you would like to request a private showing, contact Joe Gall or Kenneth Walters.

Please help us find Lucy, Ebby Halliday's cat. She is a long haired domestic tortoise shell cat. 

Email Kenneth Walters at Ebby's Little White House with any information about Lucy - kw@ebby.com

We are very excited to announce that Williams Trew Real Estate is now part of the Ebby Halliday Family of Companies. Williams Trew, Fort Worth’s leading residential real estate brokerage, was previously a Sotheby’s company. Below is the text of today’s full press release:

Dallas-based residential real estate brokerage Ebby Halliday Real Estate, Inc. announced today it has purchased Fort Worth-based luxury real estate boutique Williams Trew Real Estate. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Williams Trew, which was founded in 2000 by Martha Williams, Joan Trew and Marshall Boyd, will continue to be branded and conduct business under the name Williams Trew, an Ebby Halliday Real Estate Company and will continue to operate out of its current locations in Fort Worth. Ms. Williams and Ms. Trew will continue leadership roles with the company. Mr. Boyd will guide the transition and then pursue other existing business opportunities outside the company.

“Timing is everything, and the timing of this move meets current market needs and positions our company to better serve current and future residents of Fort Worth,” says President & CEO of the Ebby Halliday Companies Mary Frances Burleson. “This acquisition brings together two like-minded companies with many years of residential real estate experience.”

Ron Burgert, chief financial officer of the Ebby Halliday Companies, adds, “We have built our company on several strategic moves in our almost 70 years in business and we believe this acquisition will help ensure our market position for many years to come. From a business standpoint, we are able to combine budgets, marketing and advertising in a more strategic and cost-effective manner.”

“We are pleased to join Ebby Halliday and believe this move significantly strengthens our leading position in the Fort Worth marketplace,” says Martha Williams of Williams Trew Real Estate. “As part of Ebby Halliday, our agents and sellers will have more resources without losing our company culture. Both our companies are privately held and customer-focused.”

Adds Joan Trew, “Their team has a proven record of integrity, service and client satisfaction. They also have a record of integrating acquisitions smoothly and without employee or market interruption. We like and respect their approach to the business of people.”

The acquisition is effective immediately. “We are already working on the transition,” says Williams Trew co-founder Marshall Boyd. “It will be seamless to our clients and our agents and sellers will not be impacted. We will increase our marketing and advertising strength and realize targeted cost efficiencies.”

With this transaction, Williams Trew becomes an Ebby Halliday Company and will no longer be affiliated with Sotheby’s International Realty.

As an Ebby Halliday Company, Williams Trew and its Associates will benefit from the firm’s longtime affiliation withLeading Real Estate Companies of the World, a global network of more than 500 premier real estate brokers, and its luxury division, Luxury Portfolio International. LeadingRE affiliates produce more annual home sales than any other real estate network, according to Ebby Halliday Companies Corporate Real Estate Services Director Karen Greene.

“Membership in Leading Real Estate Companies of the World is by invitation only and is limited to the very best residential real estate companies worldwide,” says Greene, “We take pride in offering our clients knowledgeable Associates who provide exceptional service. Simply put, Williams Trew and its Associates are a perfect fit for the Ebby Halliday Companies.”

The Ebby Halliday Companies includes Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate, affiliated mortgage, insurance and title companies, and approximately 1,600 associates covering over 12,000 square miles of North Texas. It participated in more than 19,500 real estate transactions in 2013 with a sales volume of more than $6.4 billion. The Ebby Halliday Companies’ 13.5 percent share of the North Texas real estate market led all competitors, the nearest of which garnered 4.03 percent.

Independently owned and operated Ebby Halliday Realtors will celebrate its 70^th anniversary in 2015. Having grown from a one-woman office to the largest independent real estate company in Texas, the company has consistently maintained a focus on service to the community. In addition to its support of many North Texas charitable organizations, the Ebby Halliday Companies belong to 27 local chambers of commerce.

“At Ebby Halliday, we’re proud of our undisputed role as the dominant real estate firm in North Texas,” Burleson says. “While 2014 has certainly been an exceptional year for our company, what remains most important to us is service to our clients, service to our industry and service to our community. We welcome – and appreciate – the opportunity to partner with Fort Worth’s most respected real estate brokerage.”

Williams Trew Real Estate is Fort Worth’s leading residential real estate brokerage firm. With over 80 experienced agents the company provides home buyers and sellers with unparalleled experience in residential, farm & ranch, lake or urban properties in the greater Fort Worth area.

For more information, visit williamstrew.com.

For more information on Ebby Halliday Realtors, visit the website voted one of the industry’s best by the Web Marketing Association, ebby.com.

Ebby Halliday Realtors is proud to once again be a sponsor of the annual Dallas Children’s Health Holiday Parade. The parade featured marching bands, holiday floats, larger-than-life balloons and much more. Associates and staff from throughout the Ebby Halliday Companies manned a giant inflatable Garfield balloon.

Ebby Halliday has been sponsoring the holiday event for 10 years, with the parade becoming a family holiday tradition over the course of the event’s 27-year history. The annual Children’s Health Holiday Parade is about family fun and family traditions. This type of fun family time is an important part of building the emotional health of children; so you’re doing something good for your kids’ health when you spend time with them!

As the leading pediatric health care system in North Texas, Children’s Health is by your side in health and wellness of your children. Children’s Health is more than facilities. As a system, they’re dedicated to keeping kids healthy and well in the community, working within the community, schools, community organizations, and faith-based organizations as part of their mission to make life better for children. Wherever you see their red balloon, it’s a symbol of the quality, compassionate care for which Children’s Health is known. And now, as a system, Children’s Health is reaching out to parents with tips and advice for everything from nutrition to safety to complex medical care, as part of their commitment to keeping kids healthy and well wherever they are, all day long and all year long.

Watch the Children’s Health Holiday Parade, this Saturday at 10:00AM, on WFAA (Channel 8).

Ebby’s Little White House Associates and staff, clients, children, grandchildren, and members of Ebby’s Corporate Office recently joined in a Dallas tradition: the annual lighting of the iconic office at Northwest Highway and Preston Road for the holidays.

As part of the festive event, members of the office collected new toys for patients at Children’s Health, the nation’s seventh-largest pediatric health care provider and host of Saturday’s Dallas Children’s Health Holiday Parade.

Jolly Old Saint Nick arrived just in time for the celebration on the back of a bright red convertible. Santa even led the crowd in counting down to the much-anticipated lighting of Ebby’s beautiful Little White House.