Everybody is somebody’s baby, and every house is somebody’s home.  We’ve covered the “hip” places to live in Fort Worth, now we want to talk about the Expensive Ones. The places that everyone knows cost the most. The places for ostentatious wealth, conspicuous consumption, 6 car garages, guest house with a pool, and probably a staff, the houses that are surely beyond what everyone else can do. These are the sells-for-a million or more crowd. So: where is the truly high end, the Neiman Marcus of homes?

Let’s start with where the Fort Worth expensive real estate is not. There’s a lot of over-$1-mil houses out in Keller that for some reason come up on the Realtor.com “Fort Worth” search. Keller is not Fort Worth. And the 30 minute drive to downtown is increasingly uncool.

This home is priced at $2.6 million, and located in the Camp Bowie area.

For a neighborhood that is considered in town, try right east of Camp Bowie. Drive up Horne Street (turns into Roaring Springs) and turn left on Marymount. Here you will find big houses on big lots where seemingly no detail of creativity or ornamentation has been passed over as “too expensive.” Houses are all different styles, from copies of baroque contentental architecture to rambling cubist designs that say “welcome back to the 1950’s.” If architecture is really a dream of happiness, this is perhaps where the dreaming has become most florid, most creative, on the high end scale of Fort Worth.

Note the multiple garages in this Mira Visa home listed at $2.4 mil.

Then there’s Mira Vista. This newer subdivision just southwest of Cityview is the “little sister” of older expensive neighborhoods, not Beverly Hills, just an amazing simulation. There are even some rolling hills and a golf course, a club house, a pool. Crime in this neighborhood is limited thanks to a guard shack and fenced perimeter.

Forest Hill (like Camp Bowie, co-listed in Hip … ) is the closest high-end detached homes to downtown. TCU is right in there too, but be aware that in TCU there’s houses of a widely varying price range.  In Forest Hill you’ll find of a number of local Old Families, as back when they got established it was the only really nice neighborhood here.

Living at Sundance Square may be the thing if you're into urban luxury.

If you want to see places that really rise above the competition, you should check out the top-of-the-line apartments in The Tower condominiums overlooking Sundance Sqaure.  Or trying living at the top of the brand-new Omni Hotel.  If you always wanted to live on Central Park in Manhattan, but can’t afford it, maybe you can here … though it’s still going to set you back, the listing we pulled up was priced to sell at $1.6 million. 

Finally, for the truly Ultimate Expensive Place to live in Fort Worth, try The Ranch. Yes, I mean where the cattle live. Actually, the ranch is not going to be someone’s first home; it’s a second home where real Texans get back in touch with their rural roots. In general, the wealthy of Fort Worth own land and cattle, and there will be a house out there in the countryside where they go and stay on weekends. In truth, many times the ranch is not the lap of luxury. But owning such a property, whether it’s in Waxahachi, the Hill Country, or up by Wichita Falls, signifies something in Texas: that you’re both well to do, and really Texan. And that, for the glitterati of Cowtown, is the ultimate ticket.