Candy Evans

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

Aldredge House: The Power of Video, Bad Employees, and Big Closets

By Candy Evans / October 21, 2015 /

Update: Precious Jo North, friend and fellow Alliance member, tells me that we made a lot more than $30,000 on the home tour. Co-chair Sandi Ciarochi and the team brought in $112,000, the second highest fund raiser in DCMSA history! (I just don’t have a head for numbers.) The Prescription Texas Luncheon with then-Governor Rick…

GREAT Park Cities Location for Under $2 Million With Own “Katy Trail”

By Candy Evans / October 19, 2015 /

There are many beautiful homes in the Park Cities because, well, everyone wants to live there. It’s not just the highly ranked public schools that help us boost the “workforce development”, it’s the safety and Mayberry-type atmosphere where a policeman might bring home your dog because he knows you so well, or help you get…

Re: DFW’s Abnormally Hyper Current Real Estate Market Likely To Get Back to Normal Levels in ’16, ’17

By Candy Evans / October 18, 2015 /

This is a first: we are pulling a comment and posting it as a blog post, because it is so right on. The author, Dormand Long, brings up another point on why it’s good for Texas to keep our housing affordable: how can Millennials pay $800K for a house when they have $300K in student loans…

DFW’s Abnormally Hyper Current Real Estate Market Likely To Get Back to Normal Levels in ’16, ’17

By Candy Evans / October 17, 2015 /

As I mentioned in my live-blogging at MetroTex Association of Realtor’s annual “state of the DFW Real Estate union” that happened today, Dr. James Gaines, chief economist with the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, told 300 plus DFW real estate agents that we might expect a slowdown in the frenetic market we are…

Fort Worth Friday: Fairmount Historic Craftsman Bungalow Bursting With Color!

By Candy Evans / October 16, 2015 /

by Eric Prokesh Talk to any agent these days and be prepared to listen to complaints about low inventory. That appears to go double for historic Fairmount, with its period charm, its proximity to the trendy restaurants and bars of Magnolia, and millions in city funds committed to rejuvenate the South Side. Better move fast:…