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: Almost-New Bluffview Construction Has Proximity With a Capital P

By Candy Evans / September 21, 2015 /

This home at 8312 Ridgelea is almost a dream that is too good to be true. Give it an A-plus for location! You are talking about one of the hottest neighborhoods in town, Bluffview. This parcel of homes near Lovers Lane are all walkable to West Lovers Lane shops and super close to Love Field,…

Robert Rowling Lists Pristine Omni Penthouse in Fort Worth for $7.9 Million

By Candy Evans / September 21, 2015 /

How would you like to own a billionaire’s penthouse in the sky with the best views in North Texas? The founder of Dallas-based TRT Holdings (Omni Hotels, Gold Gym International) has placed his pristine Fort Worth condo at the tip top of the Omni Residences on the market again. Robert Rowling, a Dallas billionaire whose…

Ebby Halliday’s Celebration of Life for a Life Well Lived

By Candy Evans / September 18, 2015 /

It was probably the most beautiful memorial service most of us will ever attend, and it was totally befitting Ebby Halliday Acers, the Duchess of Dallas Real Estate as her pastor, Dr. Jim Denison, called her. The sanctuary at Park Cities Baptist Church on Thursday afternoon was loaded, as was the balcony, and I’m told…

The Swiss Avenue Historic District Met Last Night At Aldredge House… Standing Room Only

By Candy Evans / September 16, 2015 /

Guest post by Harryette Ehrhardt, founder & past president of the Swiss Avenue Historic District My husband Jack and I bought our house on Swiss Avenue in 1970, three years before Swiss Avenue was a historic District. We worked on the formation of the District and also the founding of Preservation Dallas. I have represented…

Sleeper of the Week: 3115 Cornell Looks Like It Really Went to Dartmouth!

By Candy Evans / September 16, 2015 /

This is generally not a great market to find Sleeper properties, though we are ALWAYS on the outlook for them. Last week, at the Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty Partyline Real Estate shindig, I heard of another Sleeper ‘hood: Auburn. You can bet your bippee we will be all over there. But you don’t usually…