Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
Townhomes are totally having a moment, and we’re all for it. In fact, we love it so much, we have decided to make “Townhouse Thursday” a regular weekly feature here on CandysDirt.com. Bigger is not always better, as we seasoned real estate consumers know. Less land generally means less maintenance and lower taxes, and who…
Ryan Serhant conquered New York. He’d done it the hard way — open houses in the rain, clients who changed their minds 17 times, brokers who looked at him like he was a doodle wandering into a board meeting. He’d survived the 2008 crash, the pandemic, and the brutal warfare of Manhattan co-op boards. He’d…
Given my recent downsizing, my handbag collection has gotten lighter as I shed my beautiful older handbags. I Sent My Handbag to The RealReal, Got an Unreal $2 Beautiful leather, pristine condition (they had lived in dust bags in my closet), and they sold — for peanuts: $2. The purses that people really want and…
I’ve been closely watching the action over at Dallas City Hall as of late — and there’s been a lot of action — but one upcoming action item has me particularly concerned. On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will vote on whether to raise the expanded convention center design back to its originally planned height…
The deadline to protest your property taxes is Friday, and homeowners who plan to challenge their ever-rising appraisal values still have time to file. We’ve certainly seen the trend: Up go the property values, up go the property taxes, regardless of legislative action to chop rates. That’s why CandysDirt.com recently offered readers the opportunity to…
