Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
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.…
An icon of Dallas real estate has left us: Mary Frances Burleson, longtime president and CEO of the Ebby Halliday Companies. The Ebby Halliday Companies announced that Burleson, 87, died Sunday morning of natural causes. Burleson famously began as the secretary of Mrs. Ebby Halliday, the company’s namesake founder, and rose to become the company’s…
There really is no place like home when it comes to the holidays, and we know that since the pandemic of 2020, home is spreading just a little further out for a lot of North Texans, even those who could not bear to dial “972” a few years back. Now, in McKinney, the residential community…
When we last checked in with Chad Hudson, founder and owner of Savoy Builders, he was packing up a glorious Rockwall home and heading east. He built the Midcentury Modern home on one and a half verdant acres, let us drool over it, and then sold it in about two seconds. Now, he and his…
