Candy Evans

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

Quieter, More Conciliatory Laura Miller at Transwestern’s Meeting Behind the Pink Wall: Plan Commission Hearing Set for August 20

By Candy Evans / August 14, 2015 /

We have written about the shenanigans behind the Pink Wall ’till we are blue in the face. We mentioned in March that Transwestern had come back to the sellers, the united owners of Townhouse Row and the Preston Center Apartments smack at the corner of Preston and Northwest Highway, tweaked their plans down to way fewer residences…

When It’s This Hot in Texas, You Need a Home With Trees, Bees & Two Master B’s

By Candy Evans / August 11, 2015 /

  There is something about the location of 11259 Leachman Circle that takes the temperature down a notch or two. The home is located on a leafy cul-de-sac off Northaven Road (near Inwood, need I say more?) that is so peaceful you can hear the crickets tapping their legs. And the home is CANOPIED by…

Monday Morning Millionaire: An Olympian’s Pool is What You Need to Beat the Dallas Heat

By Candy Evans / August 10, 2015 /

Sometimes it takes a real athlete to survive this heat. How about a home with a pool that was once used by an Olympian athlete? One of the former legacy owners of this home was Mitzi Ryan, an Olympic rower for the USA.  She married a gentleman from Australia and lived for years in this…

The Unwalkable Walkable City: Our Homeless Problem in Dallas Not Yet in Critical Condition?

By Candy Evans / August 10, 2015 /

I was in San Francisco last week for Inman Real Estate Connect. Loved it, as ever. Saturday, I got a Change.com petition launched by Rob Hahn (a Texan, Houston, and a pretty smart guy) to change the location of the conference OUT of San Francisco’s Tenderloin to somewhere else: ICSF is a great event held…

Tommy Vu Files: An Aledo Angel Listed $10K Below Appraisal, Steal of a Deal

By Candy Evans / August 7, 2015 /

Unless you are a devotee of early Saturday Night Live skits, you might be too young to remember a late-night infomercial character named Tom Vu. He was a Vietnamese immigrant with an amazing rags-to-riches story. In his infomercials, a happy, rich-looking Vu stood on a huge yacht, surrounded by babes in bikinis. (Or he was…