Candy Evans

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

Robert Elliott Custom Homes Launches Real Estate Brokerage, The Associates

By Candy Evans / June 9, 2016 /

Robert Elliott Custom Homes has launched a brand spanking new real estate brokerage firm called The Associates. And he’s flying out of the gate from the get-go with ten full-time agents for a brand that was born 30 days ago. One of the whiz kids is Brandon Meek. “I receive north of 15 calls a…

Being Nosy: Mayor Rawlings and A.C. Gonzalez Fighting Dallas County Property Taxes

By Candy Evans / June 8, 2016 /

When it comes to real estate, I am the nosiest. Especially on Dallas County property taxes. Last week, we looked at Dallas County Tax Assessor John Ames. I noticed he had a dramatically lowered value on his DeSoto home. He had, of course, a perfectly good (really, a terrible) excuse for having that lower value:…

Chasing Amy’s Dream Home with Ebby Halliday

By Candy Evans / June 8, 2016 /

Amy Vanderoef is a well-known personality to DFW. She is best known from her role as the Emmy-nominated host on WFAA’s Good Morning Texas and on-air talent on the Rodney Anderson Show on Talk Radio 1190 AM. Her television career has taken her everywhere from the set of Dancing with the Stars, to ABC’s The…

Why is the FBI Evidence Response Team Searching Turtle Creek in Front of Troy Aikman’s New Home?

By Candy Evans / June 8, 2016 /

  Sources tell me that for two days now a team of well-muscled FBI agents have been searching the waters of Turtle Creek in front of his $4 million lot on St. Johns, the one he bought in October of 2013. The Bureau has recently adding 10 more divers. Are they looking for evidence? If…

Return This House: Opendoor Now Offering Buy Back (and Other!) Gutsy Guarantees

By Candy Evans / June 8, 2016 /

The Real Estate business is headed for extreme change in the way we buy, sell and market real estate, and in how we compensate agents. Last week, we talked about Alex Doubet of Door, a Highland Park and Harvard lad-grad who has started a technology-based flat fee discount brokerage. I applaud and wish him well,…