Candy Evans

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

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…

Dallas City Plan Commission Approves Transwestern Zoning Request for Behind the Pink Wall in Preston Hollow

By Candy Evans / September 4, 2015 /

There was only one solo dissenting vote from members of the Dallas Plan Commission, and it was from Paul E. Ridley, a Kingston appointee. As for neighborhood’s over-riding concerns about traffic, the City’s traffic experts said the new development may actually DECREASE traffic on Bandera…  from a car every forty seconds (currently) to a car…

Uptown Murder at Gables Park 17 Gaining Nationwide Attention

By Candy Evans / September 3, 2015 /

The tragic gunning down of a woman in an Uptown parking garage last evening, a garage residents say was accessible only with a fob key, has now garnered a bit of national attention via the New York Daily News.  The murder has the luxury apartment community (and a lot of single women in Uptown) on…

A Lesson From Fort Worth: How to Slow Down Cars in Dallas – Roundabouts

By Candy Evans / September 3, 2015 /

I spent 30 hours in Fort Worth and loved it. Visited my dear friend Eric Prokesh, saw his house, toured some Fort Worth neighborhoods and drooled, just drooled over the housing stock there. Had lunch and dinner on West Magnolia and cannot wait to return. Fairmount is becoming a huge real estate success story: it…

Meet The Smiths: The First Family of Texas Real Estate

By Candy Evans / September 2, 2015 /

I’m here in Fort Worth celebrating the installation of Leslie Rouda Smith, voted in as the Chairman of the Board of the Texas Association of Realtors for 2016. Last night was the installation dinner and celebration, and let me tell you, it was a gala dinner. The Fort Worth Omni Convention Center and Hotel was…