Candy Evans

Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.

Realogy Shutters "Climb" Real Estate Brokerage Offices in San Francisco

By Candy Evans / January 10, 2020 /

It’s not looking good for another real estate disruptor thus far in 2020, this one in the San Francisco Bay area. Thursday we reported that Dallas-based DOOR (Door.com) has laid off 37 employees. Now Inman reports that real estate giant Realogy is closing the offices of a uniquely creative real estate firm called Climb, which…

Puls On-Demand Handyman Service App Takes the Headache out of Home Repair

By Candy Evans / December 24, 2019 /

What is the single biggest headache of home ownership? Go ahead and say it out loud: HOME REPAIRS! Home repairs are a given and a constant when you own a home. If you don’t have any home repairs, something is seriously wrong with your home. Because read my lips: every single home has a maintenance…

House Passes Temporary Repeal of SALT Cap on Deducting Property Taxes

By Candy Evans / December 21, 2019 /

It’s no secret that the SALT tax, that $10,000 cap on state and local deductions on your federal tax return, hurt high-end real estate. Agent upon agent have told me that owners of homes valued at more than $1 million took a look at their tax returns this year and said, what happened? What happened…

Carol Reed, R.I.P.

By Candy Evans / December 20, 2019 /

“Carol Reed was a woman who took every hand she was dealt, and played it well. She was bigger than life, had political skills second to none, a loyal friend, and deeply loved Dallas.” This came from her dear friend Chris Heinbaugh, vice president of external affairs at AT&T Performing Arts Center, a former reporter…

Preston Royal Village Proactively Encourages Post-Tornado Shopping

By Candy Evans / December 19, 2019 /

Shopping this holiday season in Preston Hollow, at the venerable intersection of Preston Road and Royal Lane, has been quite different this year. The entire southeast and southwest quadrants were flattened by the October 20 EF-3 tornado that hopscotched across this northern stretch of the city. The northwest and northeast quadrants were affected, too, but the…