Candy Evans

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

Try a Bentley, and Test Drive a Virtual Reality Headset Tonight at our Bentley Place Staff Party

By Candy Evans / October 3, 2018 /

Most of us will not buy a house without seeing, touching, or even smelling it. Hence the reason for the “Open House”. But that is hard to do with properties under construction in new developments, especially ones that offer construction design flexibility to potential buyers.

64 Fawn Wood Drive, The Lawn at Glen Abbey: 4099 Square Feet of Downsize-able Tranquility

By Candy Evans / October 2, 2018 /

We have been drooling over the Lawn at Glen Abbey now for about a year, long enough for the good folks at Hawkins-Welwood to finish up another astonishingly gorgeous home for us to consider as the perfect “downsizer” specimen. Bonus brownie points: it’s 4099 square feet of luxury living. The master and study are on…

Try a Bentley at Bentley Place, Greenway Park’s Newest Luxury Living Environment

By Candy Evans / October 2, 2018 /

  I hear this refrain over and over again from my peers looking to downsize out of larger homes: there is nothing available to downsize into.   Well, drop what you are doing on Wednesday evening and come check out Bentley Place, an eight-villa luxury environment featuring the best floor plans I have seen in…

Women of Compass: Four Dallas Real Estate Legends Tell All

By Candy Evans / September 28, 2018 /

We don’t know if this could become an annual event in Dallas real estate, but we sure liked it. Christy Berry caught wind of an event in New York City she thought was pretty cool, a panel of successful Real Estate professionals in New York City sharing their success stories to others. I want to…

Opendoor Announces $400 Million Investment from the Tech Guru SoftBank Vision Fund

By Candy Evans / September 28, 2018 /

Looks like more Wall Street money is really flowing into the real estate business. And it also looks like there might be some synergies soon between Opendoor and Compass in the future… On Thursday (while we were all glued to Washington, D.C.) Opendoor announced a $400 million investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund.  Who is…