Candy Evans

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

Find Your Fabulous Frisco Home with Local Experts Ebby Halliday

By Candy Evans / September 12, 2018 /

Frisco continues its rapid growth, adding around 37 new residents every day, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It’s one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation, they reported in May. That makes real estate in this affluent northern suburb a hot ticket and luxury housing does quite well in Frisco — high-end, gated communities with…

Knock Soon to be Knocking on Doors in Texas With Trade-In Platform

By Candy Evans / September 12, 2018 /

  Yesterday, we learned that Opendoor snapped up discount brokerage Open Listings, giving the iBuyer platform company a huge foot up in not just the buying but the selling of real estate.   Today, we learn that Knock has expanded to Texas with the start-up’s first-ever Home Trade-In platform: buy and sell at same time,…

Important: Opendoor Just Bought its Own Discount brokerage

By Candy Evans / September 11, 2018 /

Opendoor, Open Listings, open sesame to way more disruption in the real estate world. You know about the fast growing, fast-expanding home selling and buying company Opendoor. Launched in the Bay area in 2014, with Dallas as its second focus group city, OpenDoor has raised $645 million in equity financing, has $1.75 billion in debt,…

A Foreclosure Sale in Preston Hollow? 9410 Alva Court

By Candy Evans / September 11, 2018 /

Huge kudos to Teresa Gubbins over at CultureMap, who spied a real anomaly in our Texas market: a foreclosure. Even when there are supposed to be fewer foreclosures in Dallas! And not just any foreclosure, but a foreclosure in the honeypot of Preston Hollow, on the same street where T. Boone Pickens recently sold his flawless…

Texas Discovery Gardens Honors Allie Beth and Pierce Allman With 2018 Flora Award

By Candy Evans / September 11, 2018 /

  Allie Beth and Pierce Allman will be honored with the 2018 Flora Award for their years of service to the Dallas Community on October 25, the jade anniversary of this prestigious Dallas occasion. Since its inception in 1982, The Flora Award has been presented in support of Texas Discovery Gardens, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The…