Candy Evans

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

Hollywood Street Artist Has a Little Real Estate Fun With Presidential Election

By Candy Evans / November 7, 2016 /

Only in LA would someone create art out of the presidential election AND mix it in with real estate. These images are popping up all over bus-stop benches in Pacific Palisades, Brentwood and Beverly Hills, and sprinkled in the yards of various homes for sale. The artist, an ultra conservative (I guess) named Sabo, is…

Could the Dallas Real Estate Market Survive a 130 Percent Property Tax Increase?

By Candy Evans / November 7, 2016 /

As if the doom and gloom from the almost-over election isn’t bad enough, the city of Dallas has an economic crisis brewing that will most likely mean higher property taxes in the future. How would that affect our local real estate market? I was speaking to a prominent agent last week about the sticker shock…

Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Snatches the Russell Rhodes Team in Flower Mound from KW

By Candy Evans / November 4, 2016 /

With a purchase price rumored (but not substantiated) to be in the seven figures, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices PenFed Realty Texas has purchased a Flower Mound powerhouse agent and associates, all formerly of Keller Williams’s Preston Road office in Plano. Russell Rhodes, one of the five top producing Keller Williams agents in the world for the…

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s Agent & Columnist Len Bourland Pens Park Cities Tell-All

By Candy Evans / November 3, 2016 /

I have known, and loved, Len Bourland for a long time. We were both writers, mothers, and married to physicians when we met back in the ’80s. Moving to Dallas from New York City, switching roles from working producer to freelancing mom, was sort of shocking to my then much younger system. Meeting Len was…

Dallas Realtor Shot & Killed in Dallas Parking Lot Was Selling iPhone Through “OfferUp”

By Candy Evans / November 2, 2016 /

Martha Alice Teran, a Dallas Realtor with Dallas-based Gilchrist & Company, was shot to death in the parking lot of Medieval Times Sunday night. Teran, age 42, was apparently helping her daughter sell an iPhone 7 though the “OfferUp” exchange ap: Teran’s family said Monday there were likely three suspects and when they contacted Teran…