Photos courtesy of those wonderful folks at Shoot 2 Sell!
Was it really a year and a half ago that we told you all about Troy Aikman’s real estate moves from Highland to Normandy to St. Johns? ? Almost — July, 2013 we told you that he sold his stunning Highland Drive family residence (and TWO lots) to move in a smoothly sleek, Tatum-Brown Custom Homes home built in 2007/2008 by Mark Danuser of Tatum-Brown Custom Homes, who is, of course, one of my CandysDirt Approved home builders — these are the folks who I would trust to build a home for dear friends, myself, and even TROY!
The French Normandy-style home has 10,662 square feet with five bedrooms, five full and four half baths, seven living areas, three stories, a wine room on the first floor, no basement, elevator, a morning room with fireplace! I love morning rooms, Troy, I’m coming over for coffee! There is a covered outdoor living area with outdoor kitchen, separate sitting area off the second floor master, game room, study and “her” office. There is an upstairs game room, a home theater and a wine cellar. The master suite has a private sitting area and huge his and her walk-in closets. HUGE! French doors open to a covered patio with a fireplace and full outdoor kitchen — Troy’s “summer kitchen”. There is a pool and spa beneath tall privacy hedges by Harold Leidner. The lot is a hefty 14,438 square feet, or .33 acres.
Why is he selling? Surely he is not leaving us for Santa Barbara.The former UCLA All-American and Cowboys quarterback great spent his entire career in Dallas, with the Dallas Cowboys. He earned six Pro Bowl nods and winning three Super Bowl titles across 12 seasons. Currently the heartthrob works as a sportscaster on “NFL on FOX.”
You think this had something to do with the Cowboys defeating the New York Giants on Sunday? Like could this have been some sort of bet? Allie Beth Allman has it listed, of course, she is Troy’s super agent. While this listing is not quite as pricey as her Trammell Crow family home listing 0n Preston next to Jerry Jones, it’s a prize listing for sure.
Look a little different from when he bought it? The home had originally been priced at a high of $6,850,000 and it was listed with the fabulous Joan Eleazer at Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Real Estate. Price was lowered to $4.6 and Troy paid $4,250,000. Of course, we told you he was going to remodel. They made the closets biggers, re-surfaced just about everything, and I KNEW that leopard carpet was going by by — just could not see Troy living with leopard carpet on his stairs, even though leopard is the Dallas black.
For what I was told was a “nothing major, just some freshening up to make it more of a bachelor pad, more than a grandkid’s crib” design job, I am seriously impressed with the folks at Robert Trown & Associates who helped Troy transform a most traditional home into somethjing beautiful, edgey and clearly profitable.
I’m telling you: when it comes to real estate, Troy Aikman handles dirt as deftly as he does pigskin! Time to find out what’s cooking over on St John’s! Margaritas for my pal Neal Leitereg over at the LA Times…
