Candy Evans

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

Flip or Flop Fort Worth Casting for New HGTV Show, Deadline June 24!

By Candy Evans / June 20, 2018 /

Hi Candy and Jo, I’m a casting producer for a new HGTV HOME RENOVATION pilot that will be hosted by local Fort Worth HGTV Flip or Flop stars Andy and Ashley Williams. We’re reaching out to lenders, brokers, realtors, bloggers in the DFW area who may know of people or have clients who would love the opportunity to not only…

CandysDirt Best Builder Profile: Tony Visconti of BELLA Custom Homes

By Candy Evans / June 20, 2018 /

Spring is home building season in North Texas, and as we learned at NAREE last week, we need more homes! But when it comes to building your dream house, you want to select your home builder with extreme caution. That’s why we carefully curate our homebuilders on CandysDirt.com: a check doesn’t cut it, you have…

LEED Platinum Home in Addison Proves That Black Can Be Very, Very Green

By Candy Evans / June 20, 2018 /

Interior designer Lynn Rush does not like the ordinary, in her life, her design, or her homes. That’s one reason why she is one of the few, rare designers with foresight and, well, the guts to do something few would try in Texas, or anywhere: build a black house that is 100% sustainable. Her home…

Visual Take-Aways from NAREE18, New Horizons in Real Estate

By Candy Evans / June 19, 2018 /

So  much information was jam-packed into last week’s National Association of Real Estate Editor’s Spring Conference. Bethany, Jon and I were all in attendance and working to bring you what we learned. Throughout this week, I’ll post what I thought were some of the most significant graphs. The biggest take-aways: disruption, i-buyers, availability, affordability, technology,…

Laura Miller and Husband Sued for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Over-Garage Guest Room

By Candy Evans / June 15, 2018 /

Tim Rogers over at D Magazine breaks the story that former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller and her husband, Steve Wolens, are being sued by a former girlfriend of Mr. Wolen’s brother, who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning while sleeping in a guest suite above their garage on Dentwood. Tim says he has so many questions. I do,…