Candy Evans

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

​Dallas Market Leader Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate Offers Range of Park Cities Listings

By Candy Evans / January 24, 2018 /

Luxury home sales in North Texas continue to outpace the market. Million-dollar sales in DFW jumped by more than 23 percent last year, according to the 2017 Texas Luxury Home Sales Report from the Texas Association of Realtors.  Buyers need boots-on-the-ground expertise to expertly navigate this fast-moving and competitive marketplace. Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate offers just…

Modern Luxury Dallas Real Estate Awards: YOU Decide, Who Killed It in 2017?

By Candy Evans / January 24, 2018 /

Modern Luxury DALLAS Magazine tells me they are gearing up for their annual Real Estate Awards to run in their beautiful April issue. How exciting! Rather than ask for popularity votes for the “best,” MLD focuses on specific categories of real estate achievement. Let’s face it, every real estate agent I know is the best,…

WFAA-TV’s Report on Aldredge House Tonight May Have Been Fake News

By Candy Evans / January 23, 2018 /

I was just alerted to the story WFAA-TV’s Tanya Eiserer ran on the 5 pm news this evening depicting a recent supposedly “noisy music wedding” at Aldredge House. It came on the personal Facebook page of Dallas Observer reporter Jim Schutze. Here’s the thing: Schutze was at the wedding. Eiserer said that “loud parties continue…

Opinion: Future of Aldredge House Decided at Wednesday’s Dallas City Council Meeting!

By Candy Evans / January 23, 2018 /

A public hearing will be held at the City Council meeting on Wednesday, January 24, in the afternoon on the proposed PD and SUP for the Aldredge House, located on Swiss Avenue in the Swiss Avenue Historic District. The PD and SUP are a bit too restrictive, and we are asking for community support to make them more reasonable.

Dorothy Malone, Actress, Realtor, R.I.P.

By Candy Evans / January 20, 2018 /

Update: Readers tell me Ms. Malone lived on Livingston near Inwood Road, and lived her later years as a recluse. I had no idea that the great actress Dorothy Malone lived in Dallas. She moved here from Chicago with her family, attended Ursuline, Hockaday, and SMU, and then returned in 1971 when she married Charles…