Candy Evans

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

Time for an NAREB Membership Mixer! With me!

By Candy Evans / March 16, 2016 /

Update: this event has been postponed until, April, as we need more space! See you in April and no fools!

Where Empty Nesters Will Live: 65% Plan to Stay in Their Homes as They Age

By Candy Evans / March 14, 2016 /

Oh man, I’ve got to start this post with a quote: “The back to the city” meme appeals to urban boosters and reporters but in reality the numbers behind it are quite small. A 2011 survey by the real estate advisory firm RCLCO found that among affluent empty nesters, 65% planned to stay in their current home,…

Capital Title Sure Knows How to Show the Love!

By Candy Evans / March 11, 2016 /

Valentine’s Day is not just for Cupid. It’s for everyone in the real estate industry to show their love, love, to everyone in their ever-growing business circles who are all contributing to the incredible almost steroidal real estate growth Dallas has experienced. So that’s what went down on Thursday, February 11th, as half the Dallas…

Why This Guy Needs a 10,000 Square Foot, Multi Million Dollar Mansion in Dallas

By Candy Evans / March 10, 2016 /

This is Barry Lacina, and he’s a guy you really want to know if you have a mansion because he can make it famous. Barry is a TV/Film location manager, who is currently working on an ABC studios pilot produced by Meaghan Oppenheimer and Reese Witherspoon. (Yes, THE Reese Witherspoon from Legally Blonde.) Barry was…

Nancy Carroll Spinks Booked Into the Tarrant County Jail

By Candy Evans / March 10, 2016 /

Update: Bond reduction hearing Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. Nancy Carroll Spinks, the owner of Millennium Title in Southlake, is back in Texas tonight and in the Tarrant County Jail held on a $1 million bond. Carroll Spinks was transported to Texas on a bus with other prisoners from a jail in Lake County, Illinois, just north…