Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
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…
Insiders at the Dallas Central Appraisal District, which was hacked last week in a ransomware attack, tell us the system is not yet up, they are working all on paper, they cannot use email, and the hackers have asked for money. How much, we are trying to determine. Because Dallas County manages DCAD, we are…
By now most real estate professionals know that the Dallas Central Appraisal District’s, or DCAD’s, systems are down because of a ransomware attack. Ironically the attack hit on Tuesday, Election Day. Here is what they posted on their Facebook page: “Early Tuesday morning, 11-8-2022, The Dallas Central Appraisal District (DCAD) became the victim of a…
