Candy Evans

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

For All Us Who Labor: Rest & Relaxation Awaits in Athens, Including a Sleeping Porch

By Candy Evans / September 2, 2019 /

It’s Labor Day and we are supposed to, you know, take it easy, courtesy of our employers. But real estate never takes a break: we have to have a place to live, hang our hats, brush our teeth, rest our weary souls, or frolic. Even on Labor Day. And what better place to rest and…

Bill Tucker Appointed Sales Leader of Ebby’s Booming Frisco Office

By Candy Evans / August 30, 2019 /

If you are in real estate in North Texas, you know Bill Tucker. He is active: Tucker is a member of the usher team at the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation and serves on the Board of Directors of the Plano Symphony Orchestra. He is in great shape: in his spare time, he enjoys jogging…

Cole Smith, R.I.P.

By Candy Evans / August 27, 2019 /

  It saddens our hearts to report that Dallas, indeed the entire U.S., has lost one of its most significant architects: Cole Smith. Cole was born in 1926 and died August 25. He was married to interior designer extraordinaire Sherry Hayslip Smith, who rightfully called her beloved husband “a national treasure.” “Cole Smith’s life and…

Compass Signs Lease For Three Full Floors in Lakewood

By Candy Evans / August 26, 2019 /

Compass Dallas has signed a lease for three floors at 6220 Gaston Ave., the former Faulkner Tower building. The tower is across the street from Lakewood Shopping Center in the heart of Lakewood with a pretty neat view of the Lakewood Country Club golf course. According to the landlord, Carl Anderson, the three floors of…

Ebby Halliday Companies Team With Mayfair International Realty

By Candy Evans / August 25, 2019 /

Why is this partnership so important for Dallas? It’s no secret Dallas is becoming one of the most competitive markets for real estate agents and brokers, what with Compass taking the town by storm and Douglas Elliman headed our way. Redfin is gaining ground, and I have seen quite a few Door signs of late.…