Candy Evans

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

Tom Leppert Endorses Donald Trump for President, Because Leppert’s Auctioning His Park City Ski House Today at 2pm MT?

By Candy Evans / March 1, 2016 /

  Update 11:33 am: Grabbed a quick chat with Nate Shar with Heritage Auctions who tells me that at least eight people are registered to bid for Leppert’s ski crib, but they expect a few more showing at the actual auction on site. It happens at 2 p.m. No reserve. Mountain Time. Wish you were…

Have Realtors Gone Too Far With Branding? Houston Agent Markets, Publicizes House Filled With Poop… (but Just Wait for the Encore!)

By Candy Evans / February 29, 2016 /

  Sometimes I think we are getting a little out of control with this whole self-branding, attention-seeking, shock-and-awe video production movement. It’s like the Donald Trump-e-tizing of Real Estate. I know there is a huge push to get more listing videos out, and I know every Realtor in the country is dying trying to find…

Location, Prestige, and Four of the Newest Must-Haves in Elegant Rooms: The Gathering Area(s)

By Candy Evans / February 29, 2016 /

Location, check: an address on chi chi Beverly Drive, undisputedly one of the most prestigious in Dallas, and within walking distance of the Dallas Country Club in Highland Park. You will be watching fireworks from your own backyard or balcony come July 4th, unless you just cannot bypass the DCC’s wonderful Fourth of July buffet.…

Great Western’s Julie Shrell Rides 5 Years Strong in this Weekend’s Wheels to Survive: Join Her!

By Candy Evans / February 27, 2016 /

Great Western Mortgage’s Julie Shrell will be riding high this Sunday. Julie, along with three other ovarian cancer survivors,  founded the Be The Difference Foundation within weeks of being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. It was Julie’s way of getting some hope. Her goal is to help women in the fight against ovarian cancer get better…

Houston’s Hurting: Mansion Prices Tumbling as Low as Crude

By Candy Evans / February 26, 2016 /

Looking just in tony River Oaks, almost every home there has been reduced, from a $14 million spread that was once asking $19 million, to a 2,100-square-foot starter ranch now at $699,000, down from $840,000. Reuters reports that folks are pulling together with oil prices at their lowest since, well gosh, the 1980s. They are…