Candy Evans

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

Neighborhood: Preston Hollow Living Means Getting Used to the Wild Life. Literally

By Candy Evans / July 14, 2015 /

Preston Hollow is home to George W. and Laura Bush, Tom Hicks, Lisa Blue, Mark Cuban, T. Boone Pickens, Tom Leppert, and a host of the city’s wealthiest citizens. More if you count in Strait Lane — Ross Perot! Mike Rawlings! –which I’m not sure is really true Preston Hollow. Of course, the name has…

The Herman Lay House on Radbrook Is Going Bye-Bye

By Candy Evans / July 13, 2015 /

As I wrote almost one year ago today, every so often, a landmark Dallas home comes along for sale that makes you catch your breath and want to mortgage your first-born child so you can buy it. Such is was the Herman and Mimi Lay estate at 4935 Radbrook Place in Preston Hollow. Only now…

Becky Oliver Got Hooked on Real Estate in Phoenix, Realized her Dream in Dallas

By Candy Evans / July 13, 2015 /

    Remember Becky Oliver at Fox 4? That tough-as-nails, pretty blonde consumer reporter who every consumer loved, and every crooked-ass vendor hated and feared? Well dang, she’s gone from the station, as we told you last month. Becky left Channel 4 in June to pursue a real estate career. Well, guess where we found…

It’s Back! A French Country Retreat (Formerly Known as Champ D’Or) Hits Market Bigger & Better for $17.5

By Candy Evans / July 11, 2015 /

  You do remember this estate up in Hickory Creek, the stunning French magnifique modeled after Vaux-le-Vicomte, a chateau on the outskirts of Paris, France? It’s enormous: 48,000 square feet now on 39 acres. Originally built by CellStar Corp. founder Alan H. Goldfield and his wife, Shirley, the estate known as Champ d’Or (or “Gold Field”)…

Inwood House of the Week: Good Lord Can It get Any Better?

By Candy Evans / July 10, 2015 /

  Let’s just plunge right into this stunning new construction at 3108 Bryn Mawr in University Park, and pretend it’s a pool. We are in LOVE! The home is brand spanking new, sits on a huge Parkie-sized lot of 70 by 160, and is one of the latest architectural masterpieces built by Barrow Durrett custom…