Candy Evans

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

Andy Beal Really Hammered Down the Price of His Current $4.5m Highland Park Home…

By Candy Evans / January 18, 2016 /

Course, that was a different market. We are talking January 2011. He plunked the contract on January 25, closed 3 days later. His Gillon home had been listed for $6,200,000 but he got it when it had been reduced to $4,400,000. Wow.  The home, like the Hicks previous home on Beverly,  was designed by Larry Boerder,…

Elizabeth Taylor Drank Here: Elegance and Esteem Catty Corner from Jordan Spieth’s New Home

By Candy Evans / January 18, 2016 /

Russwood Acres is a gated community in the heart of Preston Hollow, about a quarter mile from that other hot gated community where Jordan Spieth and Hunter Mahan have owned the same house, The Creeks of Preston Hollow. Y’all know that Jordan just picked up Hunter’s house for about $666 a square foot, right? Dirt…

Where Did Tom and Cinda Hicks Live Before They Bought the Crespi Estate, aka Walnut Place?

By Candy Evans / January 18, 2016 /

They lived on Beverly Drive in Highland Park, at 3640 Beverly to be exact. The beautiful, 9,874 square foot estate built in 1985 was on almost one acre of prime Highland Park dirt, featured six bedrooms, six full baths and a couple powders, eight fireplaces (apparently the Hicks really love a fireplace in every room),…

Did Andy Beal REALLY Pay $100 Million for the Hicks Estate?

By Candy Evans / January 16, 2016 /

Recall that when Tom and Cinda first put their 25.5 acre estate on the market, it was listed with broker Douglas Newby for $136 million. That was in January of 2013. The market was just waking up, of course, but behemoth properties are always tricky to sell because the buyer pool is so limited. When Allie…

Andy Beal Closed on the Hicks Residence This Morning: The Most Expensive Real Estate Transaction in Texas Real Estate History

By Candy Evans / January 15, 2016 /

We’ve been blogging about it for weeks now, and I have to give credit where credit is due: Steve Brown at The Dallas Morning News was first to publish that Andy Beal was interested in buying Walnut Place, the former Crespi Estate on Walnut Hill Lane that was listed by Allie Beth Allman and David…