Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
My husband had an unusual request: Did we want a parrot? It was 1988. Seems a patient needed surgery and could not afford her deductible but could give us a yellow-naped Amazon parrot in barter. They were worth a lot of money, even then. The poor woman had few resources, and this bird needed a…
It’s that time of year when — even in Texas — sweaters and boots move into prime closet real estate and frozen margaritas served poolside is replaced with jingle juice and hot toddies by the fire. It’s also the perfect time to host a cozy get-together at home. And if home is HALL Arts Residences, lucky you.…
In 1986, one of Dallas’ most dramatic high-rise structures made its debut, forever changing the city’s skyline — Fountain Place, a 58-story office building designed by the legendary I.M. Pei and Harry Cobb, who also designed Dallas City Hall and Meyerson Symphony Center. The tower, crafted of emerald green glass with a distinct crystalline shape,…
So many in the farm and ranch world of real estate said this would never happen: T. Boone Pickens’ estate was asking a whopping $250 million for his sprawling, 64,672-acre Mesa Vista Ranch in the Texas Panhandle. The ranch had been on the market since 2017. Mesa Vista Ranch: A Rare Buy They were right…
We would’ve said that it is impossible to make luxury house-hunting even more fun than it already is — but we stand corrected. Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty has just launched another class-leading tool: an all-new briggsfreeman.com. The brokerage spent a lot of time reimagining and then refining what it wanted a new briggsfreeman.com to do…
