Candy Evans

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

Former Dallas Cowboy Darren Woodson Settles in Preston Hollow’s Inwood Road Estates “Farmhouse”

By Candy Evans / October 30, 2015 /

Darren Woodson recently picked up a stunning new home built by The Hill Group with clean lines and walls of glass dubbed an “architecturally detailed farmhouse”. The home is located on Boca Raton west of Preston, Boca being one of my favorite silly street names: Mouth of the Rat! Silly, but not the worst name. The…

Just In: Now You Can OWN the Biggest Movie Star House in Dallas

By Candy Evans / October 29, 2015 /

One of the most famous Dallas homes with the movie star jet set is on the market, this time for sale, offering a ripe, cliff-hugging slate for a cool California transitional contemporary not unlike the homes it’s famous tenants have built in the Golden state. See this pool? Oh if only water could talk. This…

Inwood Home of the Week: Splendor in The Half Acre Grass in Oak Lawn Heights

By Candy Evans / October 28, 2015 /

One of the best kept secrets of why Dallas is such a home-lover’s paradise is that we can have a totally country-suburban feel right in the heart of town. I should really have made you guess the location of this fabulous home before I spilled the beans: Oak Lawn Heights. Honestly, I had no idea…

Valley View Mall/Midtown Update: Make It More Like San Jose’s Santana Row ?

By Candy Evans / October 27, 2015 /

Yeah, that’s about what they said. City planners (the Urban Design Peer Review Panel) and officials in the Office of Economic Development got their first look late last week at Scott Beck’s ambitious plans to turn Valley View Mall at LBJ and Preston into a magical live-work-shop-movie-eat-play conglomeration called Midtown. From Robert Wilonsky’s report, Scott Beck…

Park Cities Shaker Chic Up in Aubrey: Get an Orchard, Observatory, Elbow Room for Horses & Longhorn

By Candy Evans / October 26, 2015 /

It starts getting quieter the minute you turn off the northern-most stretch of the Dallas North Tollway, about 30 miles north of Dallas, and head west towards Pilot Point on 380, or University Boulevard. If you go west, you’ll be in Denton, which is I guess why the road is (aptly) named “University”. Go east,…