Candy Evans

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

Black Friday Special in Real Estate: Yes Virginia, You Can Still Get Into Highland Park for $1.2 Million

By Candy Evans / November 30, 2015 /

I hope you relaxed as much as I did over the holidays. There really wasn’t much choice, was there? Our yard is so soaked with rainwater it probably won’t dry out until December of 2016. Even the dog doesn’t want to go out, and she has a turf yard for potty time. Shopping? I hit…

Killer Highland Park O’Neil Ford Available for $7.5, Just Hit MLS

By Candy Evans / November 27, 2015 /

Here is a little teaser to whet your appetite because we plan to get ourselves inside this beauty once the rain ends. That cherry laminate in the kitchen! A most architecturally significant home NOT in MLS, weighing in at 9,000 square feet on just under an acre. Owners commissioned Ford to build their vision in…

Inwood House of the Week: Don’t Judge This Family Friendly North Dallas Ranch By Its Calm Exterior

By Candy Evans / November 27, 2015 /

Update: Tryptophan coma, I failed to include address: 3737 Northview Lane. This northwest Dallas ranch in Underwood Estates has a lot of sizzling surprises once you walk inside. Kind of like my Thanksgiving turkey — nothing to dial home about on the outside, but delicious and tender on the inside! This 1959-built babe has been…

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…