1 of a Kind

Continental, November 2006

Douglas Newby, a Dallas broker whose company specializes in architecturally significant homes of any style, concurs with this 10 percent figure. “Now, when an important modernist house goes on the market, people get really excited,” he says, whereas before they would shudder and say it would never sell.

Dallas, Newby continues, “is a city associated with design. There’s a certain confidence in Texas that you can do what you want with your property.”