Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
We teased about this last April Fools Day — when we said that Costco was buying up the Hicks-Crespi Estate on Walnut Hill Lane for its hottest new North Dallas location. It was a joke. Then Andy Beal actually BOUGHT the Hicks-Crespi estate, no joke! Costco has been eyeing Dallas for years for a…
I could have written this article myself, in my sleep: Professional photographers labor to show a property in its best light, and are the only way to go when you list a home for sale. This article in the LA Times says no to photoshopping power lines or utility boxes, but yes to a pro changing…
Your tax appraisals are supposed to be in the mail today, which means we will all be drinking a lot tomorrow. “The average increase for almost every homeowner will be around 14%, is what we have heard,” says our Tax Doctor, Rob Wheelock. Why? “Look at Case-Shiller and sales, look at what you have been…
Bravo for the Fiji Townhomes! Steve Brown tells us, via housing analyst Metrostudy, that brand new starter homes, those still smelling of lumber and sawdust, now top $300,000 in sales in DFW. Which means they are almost 50 percent — not quite, but almost — more than an existing home. The median price for an average…
There was plenty of great food, great wine, music and people, lots of people, on hand to celebrate the opening of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty’s new Plano office located in the Shops of Legacy on the north side of Legacy, in the same building as Publicis Public Relations. Everyone had fun and got home before…
