Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
I’m a wee skeptical of The National Association of Home Builders 2018 survey of “thousands of U.S. homebuyers” for must-haves. I have no doubt these things were tops on consumer’s wish list, and were accurately reported. I just think housing preferences are more regional. And this list is too national. These are features buyers ranked…
I call 4421 Purdue a Broody Hen house. Why? I had a salad by that name tonight at Streets Fine Chicken, and it was deelish. I asked what a “Broody hen” was, after I consumed the salad, of course. It’s a hen that sits on her eggs until they hatch. And protects them. Apparently, hens…
It wasn’t too long ago that Jon Anderson and I joked about how expensive Dallas housing was getting — he having a home in Honolulu, me having kids in the Bay area. Pretty soon, we said, affordable housing for Dallas will be found in Waxahachie. We were not joking! Take a gander at…
As we may have mentioned, it’s real estate awards season. By now, you must have heard of The Seppes, an evening gala to top all galas, otherwise known as JP & Associates annual black-tie awards. JP & Associates is one of the hottest real estate stories in North Texas. A story that is…
It’s that time of the year, when brokerages are toasting, and praising, those hard-working top producers who killed it in 2018, selling millions of dollars of dirt during a year that, while not one of the toughest on record, saw a significant market contraction and rising interest rates. Celebratory events have been happening across town,…
