Candy Evans

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

Hawkins-Welwood Partners With Collective Thirty-One at Transitional Stunner on Tulip Lane This Thursday

By Candy Evans / November 14, 2018 /

You know how excited we are about Hawkins-Welwood Homes. We have raved about this builder’s high-quality craft up in the Lawns of Glen Abbey, the amenity spaces at The McKenzie, and just about every home the company has so carefully constructed in Preston Hollow and beyond. And now, to help you get a jump on…

Caroline Rose Hunt, R.I.P.

By Candy Evans / November 13, 2018 /

Caroline Rose Hunt, oil heiress, daughter of legendary oil wildcatter H.L. Hunt, and the woman who pioneered Uptown in Dallas, has died at age 95. She was a Dallas-based philanthropist, hotelier, author, real estate investor, world traveler, gourmet, entrepreneur, mother of five, grandmother of 19 and great-grandmother of 23. Caroline Rose Hunt was also once the richest…

Dr. Wade Barker’s Incredibly Loaded Highland Park Mansion Now Listed at $16.75 Million

By Candy Evans / November 13, 2018 /

  If you have always wanted to see an estate built without regard to budget, I mean truly no expense spared, oh boy we have one for you: 3509 Euclid, listed with Vicki White of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty   And with $22 million poured into it, this mansion is now the biggest bargain in…

Meet Chris Kelly, New CEO of Ebby Halliday

By Candy Evans / November 13, 2018 /

If Ebby could have flown down and hand-picked a charming, intelligent, engaging millennial to lead her company into the 22nd century, or what Thomas Friedman calls the “Age of Acceleration,” I have no doubt she would have picked Chris Kelly. I had a chance to sit down and grill Chris last week, and even with…

Bella Custom Homes’ 4926 Deloache Ave. Is Like a Work of Art

By Candy Evans / November 13, 2018 /

When the venerable Dallas builder Tony Visconti says a home is well-built, you better believe it’s top-notch, hands-down, best-materials-that-money-can-buy kind of quality, and that’s clearly true with this $14 million Deloache Avenue estate built by Bella Custom Homes. CandysDirt.com has been following this exquisite Italian Mediterranean estate at 4926 Deloache Avenue in old Preston Hollow…