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Glenn Beck slashes price of his Dallas-area mansion to less than $5 million

Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck is trying again to sell his mansion at Westlake’s exclusive Vaquero Club.

Beck listed the nearly 9,000-square-foot property, at 2224 King Fisher Dr., for $4.95 million on December 13 — $1.25 million less than it was offered a year-and-a-half ago. Jeff Watson of Compass Real Estate Texas LLC has the listing.

Beck initially offered the home at $6.2 million in May 2018. Less than two months later, the price dropped to $5.9 million. In February 2019, the mansion went up for sale again, this time for $5.75 million. It’s unclear when the property was most recently pulled from the market.

Whatever the price, it’s clear that Beck is having a hard time selling this home.

“I am putting my home up for sale because I fear this economy,” Beck told his audience in 2018, “as we are headed for trouble, and I don’t want to be sitting with a big huge house.”

His home sale also comes in the wake of widely publicized troubles at Beck’s multimedia conglomerate.

The cornerstone of Beck’s empire is The Blaze, a conservative news outlet with internet, radio, podcast, and video-on-demand offerings. In November, The Hollywood Reporterbroke the news that The Blaze was shutting down its cable TV channel by the end of 2019. A year earlier, The Hollywood Reportersaid Beck’s media outfit was merging with CRTV, another conservative media platform.

The Daily Beastreported in December 2018 that Beck’s media business had been plagued by declines in revenue, online traffic, and paid subscribers, prompting mass layoffs and the CRTV “bailout.”

Beck and his wife, Tania, purchased their 3.5-acre Westlake estate in 2012 for an undisclosed amount, according to Realtor.com. (The home had been listed at $5.25 million.) The year before that, Beck established a multimedia studio in the Dallas area shortly before exiting his hosting gig at the Fox News Channel.

Built in 2004 in the French country style, the Becks’ five-bedroom comes with six full bathrooms and three half-bathrooms, along with a guesthouse that features a living room and en suite bedroom. The master bedroom includes a fireplace, a jetted tub, separate vanities, and walk-in closets.

Interior highlights of the home include a built-in wine cooler, a game room, a study, exposed wood beams, stacked-stone walls, French wide-plank wood floors, and cathedral ceilings.

Among the outdoor amenities are a diving pool, a spa, a fire pit, water features, and a pergola-covered sundeck with golf course views.

The house was initially listed for $6.2 million in May 2018.

Glenn Beck home, 2224 King Fisher, Westlake

Photo courtesy of Realtor.com

The house was initially listed for $6.2 million in May 2018.

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Multi-million-dollar gated home community The Preserve rises in Frisco

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A palace on the prairie of The Preserve in Frisco

Construction has begun on a multi-million-dollar custom home community in Frisco. Called The Preserve, it's situated among PGA Frisco’s championship golf courses and near the Omni PGA Frisco Resort, with multiple phases that will roll out over the next few years.

The Preserve is part of Fields, a 2,500-acre development in North Frisco off the Dallas North Tollway. Fields is co-developed and owned in partnership with The Karahan Companies, Hunt Realty Investments alongside investors Chief Partners and Cross Tie Capital.

The development will feature retail, dining, entertainment, hotels, corporate offices, native Texas plants, flowers, trees, and 250 acres of park space. It's designed by the same team responsible for Plano’s Legacy West, led by Fehmi Karahan.

Phase 1 of The Preserve will feature 233 homes crafted by 10 North Texas luxury homebuilders: Alford Homes, Coats Homes, and Starside Builders have all begun home construction. The other seven are The Preserve Bella Custom Homes, Endurance Homes, Faulkner Perrin Custom Homes, Hawkins-Welwood Homes, Shaddock Custom Builders & Developers, Sharif & Munir Custom Homes, and Ventura Custom Homes, for whom construction will start soon.

The Preserve Frisco The Preserve in Frisco, soon to be covered with homes.The Preserve

Lot sizes range from 6,800 square feet to more than an acre. Home design options will incorporate high ceilings, open floor plans, glass walls, and seamless transitions between indoor and outdoor such as patios, infinity pools, and landscaped exteriors.

The surrounding area will have more than 2,000 new trees plus views delivered via design elements such as floor-to-ceiling windows and expansive outdoor living areas.

Many of the homes will address sustainability, health, and wellness with green architecture, energy efficiency, water conservation, and recycled building materials.

It will combine the privacy of a gated community with resort-style living, featuring amenities such as the PGA golf courses, 20+ miles of hike and bike trails, and the exclusive Brookside Club with an expansive swimming pool, state-of-the-art fitness center, tennis and pickleball courts and a playground.

Prices will start at $3,500,000.

Hunt Realty SVP Todd Watson calls it one of the most anticipated mixed-use projects in the area -- æa perfect location for discerning buyers seeking their forever home or a secondary residence" — although he's involved with the project so he's probably biased.

“As part of the Fields development, with prominent neighbors like PGA of America and the Omni PGA Frisco Resort, we know The Preserve will be one of the most sought-after addresses in North Texas," Watson says.

According to the Frisco Economic Development Corporation, Frisco’s population has increased by 500 percent in two decades and was recently recognized as the fastest growing city in Texas and third across the U.S.

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