About CandysDirt.com – DallasDirt

Welcome to CandysDirt.com, an award-winning real estate news site and podcast for the truly real-estate obsessed in Dallas and North Texas. CandysDirt.com has been an insider's news source for more than a decade now and in that time, we've been named the Best Real Estate Blog in the country by the National Association of Real Estate Editors. Though we have matured to a news website from a blog, we celebrate real estate on CandysDirt.com every single day.

CandysDirt.com offers readers insider intel, House Porn, celebrity real estate, neighborhood profiles, what’s hot, (what’s not), sales insight, Realtor profiles, new developments, builder talk, real estate news, and Dallas City Hall coverage.  

We showcase great listings and help them break away from the noise. We cover those neighborhood HOA meetings that make everyone's blood pressure rise. We do it all from our base in North Texas, where we love to report the Dallas, Plano, Southlake, Colleyville, and Fort Worth Dirt.

Founded by Candy Evans

Unlike 98 percent of the real estate sites out there, CandysDirt.com is edited by a journalist who isn’t trying to sell you a home; a journalist who went to real estate school to sleep with the enemy and holds a Texas real estate license but does not sell; a journalist who, along with a stellar staff, visits each property and neighborhood and kicks the tires hard in her pointy Louboutins. Or Jimmy Choos.

Make no mistake: Candy Evans tells it like it is. Updated daily, reported accurately for the real estate consumer, and always spiced with dish from readers and local experts, CandysDirt.com and our podcast Dallas Dirt are the ultimate fix for anyone who loves real estate in Dallas/Fort Worth.

The Staff

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Candy Evans wasn’t born in Texas, but she got here as fast as her Louboutins would take her. A graduate of Columbia University, she broke the news of George W. Bush’s move to Dallas and brought “House Porn” to the Bible Belt. Candy also writes for national publications such as Forbes.com and is frequently sought by media as a Texas real estate expert. She is on the board of directors of Braemar Hotels & Resorts. Candy lives in Dallas with her husband, Walter.

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Joanna England has been the executive editor of Candy’s Media since 2012. If she could house hunt forever, she absolutely would. A member of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Class of 2005 (whoop!), she has a knack for finding needles in haystacks. Her favorite pastime is knitting socks at ballparks with her husband all over the US. She edits CandysDirt.com and SecondShelters.com from her home office in East Dallas.

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Shelby Skrhak is the associate editor and podcast producer at Candy’s Media. Growing up Shelby wanted to be like Kermit the Frog, the trenchcoat-clad “News Flash” reporter on Sesame Street. She doesn’t have the trenchcoat, but became a journalist like she always wanted. As a lifelong Dallas native, she's been an Eagle, Charger, Wildcat, and a Comet.

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Karen Eubank is a senior columnist at Candy’s Media. She is a  globe-trotting, history-loving eternal optimist who would find it impossible to live well without dogs, Tex-Mex, dark chocolate, and good champagne. She is an award-winning home stager and has been writing since she could hold a crayon.

Advertising

Do we accept advertising? Yes, we accept display ads, native content advertising, newsletter sponsorship, signature events, and more at reasonable rates. New to CandysDirt.com advertising: Dallas Dirt podcast episode sponsorship. If you would like to be invited to advertise on CandysDirt.com, please see our advertising page.

However, at CandysDirt.com, advertising on the site does not influence our editorial coverage. We write about our advertisers’ listings only when they meet with our approval. In other words, no fugly here unless we are making a point of what not to do. In fact, we have been known to scream about bathtubs that are not deep enough, doorways not wide enough, and wire coat hangers.

When it comes to real estate, the internet is where it’s at, baby. Display ads appear on every page of our website and get eyeballs. Sponsored content that is published on our site stays up indefinitely and is indexed by Google and other search engines daily. Our numbers are growing daily so grow with us. Find out more about advertising.

Reader Contributions

CandysDirt.com readers are the lifeblood of our site and anonymity will be assumed and protected. We invite you to comment away, but please be polite. Email and IP addresses are kept confidential and never shared.

WE LOVE TIPS! Email them to [email protected]. When you email us, the correspondence becomes the property of CandysDirt.com and we reserve the right to print it as content at our discretion unless you specifically tell us to keep mum in an email. You can certainly ask to remain anonymous, and boy, do we respect that! So go ahead, speak up! You can also contact Executive Editor Joanna England at [email protected].

Press Inquiries and Submissions

Are we shy? Hell, no. Candy Evans speaks to various consumer and real estate groups on a regular basis. She’s fun, engaging, and really spills the beans, often with photos. Requests for interviews, public appearances and speaking engagements should be directed to [email protected]. Real estate brokers, agents, builders, or their press representatives may wish to submit material for editorial consideration, and we welcome you with open arms and a nice glass of bubbly!

Disclaimer

CandysDirt.com is a consumer information site but it cannot help publishing gossip, rumors, conjecture, and certainly opinions — all sprinkled in with accurately reported factual information. We are a lot of fun, but we are not perfect. (Damn.) The site may contain errors or inaccuracies. We do not guarantee, and no reliance should be placed upon, the correctness or reliability of CandysDirt.com content. Hey, this is the internet age: links to content and quotation of material from other sites are not the responsibility of CandysDirt.com. And sometimes when we’ve had too much to drink we get loose with our spelling. Oops! But we really do want to get it right and will correct all factual inaccuracies if kindly brought to our attention. See something amiss? Contact Executive Editor Joanna England at [email protected].