Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
We do not think that 1704 West Colorado, the Oak Cliff home of Ken Row (and at one time, Sergio Remirez), is hitting the auction block tomorrow, or next month, though we know a lot of people looking for quarters under the seat cushions to buy this amazing historical estate. Robert Wilonsky over at The Dallas…
There are so many beautiful homes to choose from in Dallas, but given the holiday tomorrow, I settled on an historic Georgian in the heart of the Rawlins Conservation District. It’s listed for $1,649,000 with Ilene Crist and Kyle Richards, one of Briggs-Freeman Sotheby’s newest dynamo agents. You may know them as part of the…
If it’s under $1.5 million, it’s flying off the shelves. I have just heard about a new record sale in Devonshire: $50,000 over list, a bidding war of 3 to 5 buyers, cash, so when the appraisal won’t support the sales price, it won’t matter. But that big fat sales price WILL count for the…
The Mayor wants to do a little re-decorating at City hall, spend about $180,000 in new office digs for himself and staff. That’s a pretty modest re-decorating budget, but Rudy Bush at The Dallas Morning News says this is not a great idea because it’s symbolic of a power shift for the Mayor of Dallas, giving…
In a refreshing move from the norm of most politicians, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings says property owners may be due a property tax break. “I would love to look at a tax-rate adjustment,” said Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings at last week’s council meeting. Rawlings is hoping he has enough support to lower the tax rate,…
