Candy Evans

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

A Texas Political Update by Evan Smith for ULI North Texas: The Real Estate Takeaway

By Candy Evans / July 10, 2015 /

Evan Smith is the CEO & editor-in-chief of @texastribune (The Texas Tribune) and host of @overheardpbs. He was the former editor of@texasmonthly (Texas Monthly). According to his Twitter bio, he is a political junkie, passable tennis player, and future ex-vegetarian. He was probably eating bacon and eggs yesterday morning at the Park Cities Club where the North…

David Williams Most Famous Farmhouse in Stevens Park Estates Has Plenty of Room for Ferraris

By Candy Evans / July 9, 2015 /

David R. Williams is one of the state’s most renown architects, yet he designed very few homes in Dallas. A contemporary of O’Neil Ford — in fact, Ford’s brother actually worked on this home —  Williams is known as the grandfather of Texas modern architecture. He created a handful of indigenous designs in Dallas that…

Henry S. Miller is Selling His Flawless Cy Barcus Built Man Cave. And I Want It!

By Candy Evans / July 7, 2015 /

Years ago I wrote about this home when I was at D Home, and the way home builder Cy Barcus built a 3800 square foot palace in 2004 utilizing the best of everything he knew from his 35 year plus building career. I recall thinking, God, this would be the perfect home for us in…

Dallas Not What It Was 5 Years Ago: There’s a New Buyer in Town, and They Grabbed This Hot Industrial Aesthetic

By Candy Evans / July 6, 2015 /

Mark my word: the Dallas Design District is one of the hottest ‘hoods in town. Now with all the virginity down there — I mean, the new Virgin Hotel and Residences — it will only get hotter. We know that multi-family living is the norm, but did you know there are a few ginormous single…

Laura Miller is NOT Anti-Developer (I Found a Friend!) and More Out-Takes from NAREE2015

By Candy Evans / July 6, 2015 /

Believe it or not, I met a developer in Miami, like a really big developer, who went to high school with Laura Miller and told me they are friends. So that gal cannot be all anti-developer. The guy, Louis R. Montello, pictured here, is developing Regalia, single floor ocean-front residences on Sunny Isles Beach in Miami…