Candy Evans

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

Here’s the “Beefed Up Security” at Gables Park 17 After Kendra Hatcher Was Gunned Down

By Candy Evans / September 6, 2015 /

Dallas police have arrested and have in custody a suspect in the murder of Kendra Hatcher, who was shot in her parking garage at the Gables Park 17 Wednesday evening. Dental assistant Crystal Cortes of Dallas is being held on a capital murder charge. She apparently told investigators she was the one who drove Kendra…

Get a Sales Tax Holiday at IBB Design in Frisco & Get it NOW

By Candy Evans / September 4, 2015 /

  I was in Fort Worth this week, and designer extraordinaire Eric Prokesh was singing the praises of IBB Design. He was telling me how impossible it is to complete a design job for clients in very short windows of time, mostly because, as we all know, it takes time to order custom furniture. Told…

Gables Park 17 Murder: Resident Says Security Lax at Luxury Apartment Building

By Candy Evans / September 4, 2015 /

Update 4:44 pm: we have reached Michael Shaun Jackson and will be speaking with him directly. He tells me he IS a current resident at Gables Park 17, but plans to move out at month’s end. Michael Shaun Jackson, a former resident of the Gables Park 17, says security is lax at the building where…

Inwood Home of the Week: Solid University Park Home is Just What the Family Ordered

By Candy Evans / September 4, 2015 /

The reason you get “smaller” lots in University Park is because of the community’s name, “Parks”. The whole point is community parks for everyone to enjoy. What makes living in this Gold Coast enclave of Dallas that began as a cluster of homes surrounding Southern Methodist University so pleasant is the safety and serenity of…

Del Norte Home Offered as Lot or Reno More Than Doubled in Value Since 2004 in Preston Hollow

By Candy Evans / September 4, 2015 /

This Rogers Healy listing is right in the hotbed of controversy over the proposed, and now City Plan Commission-approved, Transwestern development for the western edge of the area known as Behind the Pink Wall. For $699,000 you can have a .46 acre lot — Del Norte does have some hefty slabs of nicely treed dirt…