Candy Evans

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

About Wednesday’s Preston-Royal Burglary: Ram the Bastards!

By Candy Evans / September 9, 2016 /

We have to meet this homeowner: I am knocking on his door. You will want to tuck this strategy away for future reference should your home be burglarized: JUST RAM THE BASTARDS! Here is what the Dallas police tell me went down in my Preston-Royal neighborhood Wednesday around noon when I heard police choppers swooping…

Joe Atkins Opens Second Real Estate Office in Bishop Arts on West Eighth

By Candy Evans / September 8, 2016 /

It may have been back in July, July 28 in fact, but we are still feeling the fun from the shindig Joe Atkins and his Bishop Arts team threw on a hot Thursday night to showcase his second and newest real estate office in the Metroplex: 419 West Eighth Street, right near Davis. He transformed…

Don’t Mind That Police Helicopter, That Suspect Running With a Gun: Just a Normal Day in Preston Royal

By Candy Evans / September 7, 2016 /

Just a normal day in the Preston Royal neighborhood here. There is a burglary that just happened at 11012 Westmere, south of me, cluster of pretty homes on a lake, while on Royalshire and Northaven a homeowner has a suspect at gunpoint. Yes, I was told he had him/her on the ground and he is…

House Reunions: Yes, You Can Go Back Home… as Long as the House is Still Standing

By Candy Evans / September 7, 2016 /

Labor Day musings. Once, on a trip to Chicago, I was driving west on the Kennedy to I-90, and passing by the outskirts of the suburban towns where I grew up. We had lived in Oak Park and moved west successively, so much that the towns created a line of dots on the tollway, like…

Dax Pass, R.I.P.

By Candy Evans / September 7, 2016 /

It is with a heavy, grieving spirit we report that Dallas has lost one of our brightest real estate talents. Dax Howard Pass, Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Ranch and Land broker extraordinaire, husband of Caroline Summers, and father of three, passed today peacefully following complications from a heart attack suffered over the weekend. He…