Candy Evans

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

Bob Thompson’s Right-Sized Beauty at The Lawn of Glen Abbey Has Me Thinking

By Candy Evans / July 24, 2024 /

I will be completely upfront with you. If you don’t buy this house, I just might sweep it up! We happen to be in the crosshairs of Old Father Time — we are getting older, but our house and property are not shrinking like our brain cells. We have covered the beautiful community of The…

Candy Evans: Why the ForwardDallas Land Use Plan Is Backward

By Candy Evans / July 22, 2024 /

My husband Walter and I paid $65,000 for our first home in northwest Dallas 45 years ago. Today that home is valued at $528,000. About 40% of this city is zoned for single-family housing, and less than 5% is zoned for multifamily. Single-family homes are the power engine for the Dallas economy. So why do…

Virginia Cook, R.I.P.

By Candy Evans / July 21, 2024 /

I had the honor and pleasure of getting to know Virginia Cook — co-founder of Virginia Cook Realtors, who died July 13 at the age of 84 — on one of the greatest excursions of my life: an overnight trip to Costa Rica on a private jet to check out an enclave under development by…

Black and White: Live in Classic Retro Elegance in This Warrington Condo

By Candy Evans / July 16, 2024 /

This is one of those stories where the photos do a much better job of talking than me. How can you not possibly swoon over this exquisite penthouse, 3831 Turtle Creek Blvd., on the 23rd and 24th floor of The Warrington, one of the most elegant, established, high-end high-rises on Turtle Creek? It used to be…

This Joshua Rice/Smitharc Masterpiece of Glass on Beverly Drive Is a Work of Art

By Candy Evans / July 10, 2024 /

Beverly Drive is one of the most iconic streets in Highland Park, a community with a plethora of iconicism. True to its name, Beverly Drive echoes Beverly Hills. In fact, the graceful boulevard — wider than most Highland Park streets — was laid out in the early 20th century by Wilbur David Cook, who was…