Candy Evans

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

Skis Up: Justin Bieber’s Fave Park City Ski Chalet Being Auctioned Today, No Reserve!

By Candy Evans / January 15, 2016 /

It’s in Park City, Utah, boasts 17,000 plus square feet with nine bedrooms, 11 full baths (all en suite) four powders (well, you need a lot of bathrooms at high altitudes if you get my drift) a media room, exercise room, gameroom, spa, and covered hot tub perfect for soaking apres ski, which is my…

Eureka: Local Media Discovers That Real Estate is Changing, Starts Reporting on Disruptors (WHAT????)

By Candy Evans / January 14, 2016 /

Nice piece of reporting in this D CEO piece by Phil Harvey who tries to tell us how the search for real estate has changed over the last 40-50 years: Fifty-one years ago, if you were looking for a new home, you had to get in your car and actually go look for one. The National Association…

U.S. Department of the Treasury Moves to Make Cash Purchases of High End Real Estate More Transparent in Two Regions

By Candy Evans / January 14, 2016 /

The story broke in The New York Times today, and it only affects Manhattan and Miami real estate right now… but get ready. The Feds are tired of cash buyers who hide their identities in “shell ownership” of luxury real estate. I, for one, am happy as it is so hard to chase down ownership…

Wanna Be a Billionaire? Chance to Win $1.5 Billion at Hunter Dehn’s University Park Open House TONIGHT!

By Candy Evans / January 13, 2016 /

Millionaire, that’s so passe. What does it buy you? An average house, a tiny vacation home. Hunter Dehn is buying a handful of Powerball tickets to give away at tonight’s open house at the brilliant Barrett Durrow property I wrote you about a few months ago at 3108 Bryn Mawr in University Park… he’s got…

Vintage Homes: Why Do We Not Take Better Care of Them?

By Candy Evans / January 13, 2016 /

Last weekend I watched the story unfold about an historic home down in The Cedars, one of Dallas oldest neighborhoods. It’s hard to imagine that in the 1800’s stately Victorian cottages and mansions with massive cedar trees — hence the name — lined the streets and housed the city’s moneyed in this neighborhood. Dallas was…