Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
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…
There is nothing more fitting to the holiday season than candles and the flickering of candlelight as the days turn shorter for winter. One luxury candle-maker with strong Dallas ties is lighting the way with her brand of custom fragrant, soy-based candles named Redolence Gems that are designed to invoke memories with specific, custom-made scents.…
It is with heavy hearts we report on the death of Pierce Allman, co-owner of the eponymous real estate firm Allie Beth Allman & Associates. He was a Dallas-based journalist, public relations executive, community leader, philanthropist, civic enthusiast, long-time resident of Highland Park, and SMU alumnus. Allman died Friday, November 25, the day after Thanksgiving.…
