Candy Evans

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

Preston Hollow Village Filling Up With Retail, Food, Beer Blasts and Now Great Thai

By Candy Evans / February 2, 2016 /

What is it about a Friday night that makes you want to grab a glass of wine or a beer, and catch a simple meal somewhere in your jeans. Somewhere close. The last thing you want to do is turn on the Viking. That’s why I am so psyched to see Preston Hollow Village filling…

Your Worst Nightmare: Title Company Closes After Lawyer Owner Absconds With Funds

By Candy Evans / February 2, 2016 /

It’s kind of your worst nightmare: you buy a house, and park your funds with a Title Company, who executes the transaction and writes you a title policy to guarantee ownership and title of your most expensive asset, your home. Piece of cake, right? But in a rare case, Texas insurance regulators have taken over…

Tom Leppert’s Park City Utah Ski Chalet Going, Going, Gone to Auction March 1!

By Candy Evans / February 1, 2016 /

UPDATE, 10:09 a.m: Nate Schar tells me there is no minimum at all, and this home was last listed for $6.2 million. I mean, can you spell DEAL? Former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and his wife, Laura, like most of us Baby Boomers, have been trying to shed some properties. First it was their home…

“Die Shard II”: London Developer Nixes Renzo Piano’s Latest London Tower

By Candy Evans / February 1, 2016 /

As Curbed points out, 2015 was a very good year for starchitect Renzo Piano, what with the opening of the Whitney Museum and his inclusion in the final round of firms submitting for the Obama Presidential Library. Piano is, of course, the architect of our own Nasher Sculpture Center, which claims neighbor Museum Tower is threatening…

Is Urban Farming in Dallas an Excuse for Unkempt Properties and Zika Virus Breeding Pools?

By Candy Evans / February 1, 2016 /

Now that we can have urban gardens and ponds in every back yard in Dallas comes word that Dallas is one of 27 U.S. cities selected for a federal program (in other words, $$$) that uses food to help build economically stronger communities. Wait, let me absorb this like the grease on a pizza: Called “Local…