Candy Evans

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

Hot Damn: 75% of Toyota’s California Owning Employees Plan to Relocate to North Texas

By Candy Evans / January 11, 2016 /

The responses were mostly based on employee comments, but Lentz said he was encouraged by the high number. “We had a planning number of around 60 percent, so if this holds up, it could mean we would have 3,000 people moving here and another 1,000 new jobs to be filled,” Lentz said from the North…

Memo From the Legal Department: Church Property is NOT Always Tax Exempt

By Candy Evans / January 11, 2016 /

Got a memo from some legal eagles who directed me to the Texas Property Code, Sec. 11.18. CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS. (a) An organization that qualifies as a charitable organization as provided by this section is entitled to an exemption from taxation of: (1) the buildings and tangible personal property that: (A) are owned by the charitable…

A New Generation of Dallas Style: Sleek, Warm & Liveable from the Rem Koolhaas Files

By Candy Evans / January 11, 2016 /

My laptop has tapped out these words so much they are practically on auto-print: “elegant, soft contemporary brimming with light with thoughtful finishes throughout…” Isn’t that every new home’s claim du jour? Thoughtful? Who builds a home that isn’t thoughtful? (Don’t answer that!) Yes, the building landscape has made a sea-change in new Dallas construction.…

The Penthouse View: Fabulous Open House at The Mayfair Tomorrow!

By Candy Evans / January 9, 2016 /

Darling I love you but give me Park Avenue! And maybe TWO masters! (Bedrooms, that is.) Well, now you can have a Park Avenue view in this stunning 3700 square foot penthouse tip top atop The Mayfair on Lee Parkway! Few Turtle Creek condos offer all the Mayfair has to offer, especially THIS home at…

Dallas Real Estate 2015: Hearting Ebby Forever, Allie Beth Sells to the Oracle of Omaha, & Briggs Freeman Finally Opens Fort Worth

By Candy Evans / January 8, 2016 /

2015 was probably the biggest year in Dallas/Fort Worth real estate history, and it was not entirely because of the steroidal market. While the first six months were such a frenzy of sales activity that agents could barely cash commission checks, the news of Billion Dollar Mile with Toyota relocating it’s California headquarters to Plano…