Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Loyd Taylor, one of this city’s most iconic interior designers and taste meisters, died July 1 in hospice care. He was 89. Sixty-four years ago, Loyd and his long-time partner, Paxton Gremillion, opened a boutique antiques showroom, Loyd-Paxton, on Sale Street in Dallas. It quickly became the talk of the town. Loyd once told me it…
