Candy Evans

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

Client Offers $50K Reward for Owner of Millennium Title, Who Denies Wrongdoing to Reporter

By Candy Evans / February 3, 2016 /

More developments in the strange case of Millennium Title, a Southlake-based title company with offices in Plano, Frisco, Addison, and Dallas. Scott Gordon over at KXAS has been all over this story. In fact, he has even heard from the title company owner, Nancy Jackson Carroll. Last week the company was taken over by the…

When Present-Day Neighborhoods Were Towns: Map of Dallas County From 1900

By Candy Evans / February 3, 2016 /

The Advocate ran this map of Dallas from 1900, and I just had to re-post it. While it clearly shows off Oak Cliff — apparently, the Dallas Zoo was once part of Oak Cliff Park, or perhaps WAS Oak Cliff Park,  we forget that before the construction of I-35, all those neighborhoods melded together. PS:…

Navigating Short Sales Even in the Hottest Real Estate Market Ever

By Candy Evans / February 2, 2016 /

The Dallas Fort Worth real estate market is light years away from where it was in 2010. Home values are up so much some now say we may be in a bubble. In 2010, it was another world. The market was flooded with foreclosures and buyers were having a hard time getting loans. Houses were staying…

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…