Candy Evans

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

Steve Brown Says Andy Beal Shopping the Hicks and Crow Estates for Christmas

By Candy Evans / November 25, 2015 /

No shocker there — the billionaire banker is worth about 11.7 billion, which is plenty of cheese to plunk down on the $100 million Hicks estate Walnut Place on Walnut Hill Lane OR the $46 million estate of Trammell Crow on Preston Road. (It has been reduced from $59.356 million, not sure Steve got that…

Love is Blue: The Most Beautiful Ritz Residence You Will EVER See, and It Has MY NAME all Over It!

By Candy Evans / November 23, 2015 /

I would rarely say this about a property: please don’t buy it. Begging you! I mean, I fall in love with real estate all the time. I drool over doors, landscaping, corinth columns (remind me of my very first boyfriend’s house) marble hearths, coffee colored hardwoods, wide-planked oak and bamboo, farmhouse sinks in kitchens, heated…

Unlisted: A Warm Contemporary Highlands Condo With a Master Suite Bigger than Manhattan

By Candy Evans / November 22, 2015 /

Off market listing here, so shhhh. This one story stunner is located at The Highlands Residences, formerly known as the Palomar Residences. The building is known for its superb location to everything SMU has to offer as well as public transit to downtown Dallas and hotel amenities that are not directly below, but next door.…

Inwood House of the Week: Merriman Park Retro is a Blank Canvas to Greatness

By Candy Evans / November 20, 2015 /

Looking at this home, I feel like I’ve landed in a time capsule back to 1979:  those wood paneled walls, twin bow bay windows, the glass weather door so freshly Windexed it always shines, the oh so formal dining room, the avocado green built-in oven which I bet is a GE, and the Chambers cooktop…

The Most Expensive (and Largest) High Rise Homes on Turtle Creek, Ltd Edition 2505, Officially for Sale Saturday

By Candy Evans / November 19, 2015 /

Oh this one just gives me shivers — cannot wait to see the completed project, and it won’t be long now. Groundbreaking is scheduled shortly after the New Year, and I understand construction fences are going up even as I type. Everything the folks at Great Gulf do is a total Class Act, from the…