Candy Evans

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

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,…

Renters Rights: Renaissance Tenants Want to Know If They Will Be Reimbursed

By Candy Evans / October 26, 2015 /

A Reader Writes: Candy Do you have any information on renters rights at the Renaissance?  The garage is in lock-down mode and will likely be that way for months.  The building is saying they will give rent cars to those that can not access their cars.  What rights does the Texas Property Code give to…

Laura Crowl Leaves Ebby, Joins Nathan Grace: “I Have Always Looked Way Outside the Box”

By Candy Evans / October 26, 2015 / Comments Off on Laura Crowl Leaves Ebby, Joins Nathan Grace: “I Have Always Looked Way Outside the Box”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj-QyUT7RtI&feature=youtu.be [sponsored_by action_blurb=”Sponsored By” name=”Nathan Grace Real Estate” url=”http://www.nathangracerealestate.com/” logo=”https://candysdirt.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/nathan-grace-real-estate.png” byline=”Thanks to its dedication to client services, Nathan Grace is one of the fastest-growing brokerages in DFW.” attribution_action_blurb=”Created By” attribution_name=”BlankSlate” attribution_url=”http://www.blankslate.com/”][/sponsored_by] For Laura Crowl, major change started with a birthday. Laura, a veteran Dallas agent who was previously with Ebby Halliday for 11 years, turned…