Candy Evans

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

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,…

Opendoor’s New TV Commercial Poking Fun at the Home Sale Process

By Candy Evans / June 13, 2018 /

And it’s really, really hysterical. Like the voyeuristic lady who rummages through the owner’s closet, touching her dresses. Eww. Yeah, we know Opendoor is the disruptor direct home buyer who everyone’s talking about and shuddering. And this is NOT DOOR, the Dallas discount brokerage. Opendoor employs Realtors, partners with Realtors, and is one of the…