Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
Wowzers. The Cowboys have sold their last membership in the Cowboys Club up in Frisco. They started sales last month — a $250 deposit for suites running $4500 for the initiation and then $395. a month to get you into exclusive bars, dining options, fitness facilities, a terrace and rooftop pool all overlooking the Dallas…
Nothing like the weekend to get the real estate buzz brewing. Almost every developer I spoke with — three, all off the record, of course — is scratching their head about the way Hayman Capital Management’s Kyle Bass has brought Mehrdad Moayedi, founder and CEO of Centurion Development, into the United Development Funding story spotlight.…
What is the ideal home size today? What are Millennials buying, if they are buying? What socio-economic group is building now? The National Association of Home Builders knows these things. The median size of homes that people wanting to build or are currently living in is 1,859 square feet. This is according to an NAHB…
What the hec! A few days ago a story came across the desk about Kyle Bass, he of Hayman Capital Management, complaining about a Ponzi scheme going on at a financial institution in Grapevine. This happened about the time we were hearing about Nancy Carroll and the missing funds over at Millennium Title. Unrelated, but…
Guest Post by Austin Rucker, a Realtor with Dallas-based Von Buren and Associates Back in 1904, the city of Dallas had about 72 miles of electric streetcar lines worth around 32 million dollars. In today’s dollars, that is $804 million or $11 million per mile of track. In fact, the first streetcar opened in spring of…
