Candy Evans

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

First Luxury High Rise on Lake Grapevine Ready to Break Ground and Blow Up the North Texas Real Estate Scene: Partyline!

By Candy Evans / October 22, 2015 /

Can you picture living in a 15-story luxury high rise — concierge, doorman, stunning finish-outs, everything at your finger-tips — and then looking off your balcony to see water every day? I’m talking sailboats, paddle boarders, jet skiers, fishing and, come seven or eight, a scintillating North Texas sunset to enjoy with a glass of…

Aldredge House: Board of Adjustment Denies W/O Prejudice Request for “Nonconforming Use” On Swiss Avenue, But Where ARE the Red Panties?

By Candy Evans / October 22, 2015 /

I had a personal stake in this dog fight, as I have mentioned before: I’m a proud member of the Dallas County Medical Alliance and I do not want us (the DCMA Foundation) to lose Aldredge House. Never ever. It’s a beautiful home, one of the few open historic homes left in town, and it…

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…