Candy Evans

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

Charles Osgood to Feature PaigeBrooke, the Charles Dilbeck Home in Westlake That Was Moved, on CBS Sunday Morning News

By Candy Evans / May 30, 2015 /

Update 10:59 a.m: Kelly tells me the CBS producers have postponed the story for a week or two, because they didn’t want to cut the piece to fit into a shortened time slot. We will keep you posted! This is a home that has never left my heart, and never will. I have always thought…

Clifford D. Hutsell Lakewood Treasure: Not Just One-of-a-Kind, the Perfect Home for Unordinary People

By Candy Evans / May 29, 2015 /

It’s hard to really define a “Dallas” home without thinking about the “structures” erected in the last 20 years, from the top-heavy wood-shingled maisons that look like skinny women with huge top-heavy boobs, to the McMansions and Mediterranean would-be meccas. Certainly the classic Dallas ranch is a home that defines us as much as a…

Snakes on the Plain, Thanks to All the Rain

By Candy Evans / May 29, 2015 /

It’s time to buy some Snake-Away, but I think I got the last jug at The Home depot — sorry. I haven’t seen any, but I’m sure they are out there in the tall grass. We have had baby snakes in our house in years past. But Keller Williams agent Alyssa McKissack tells me she…

Earth to Dallas: If You Want the City Core To Grow, Treat the Small Business Landlords Better

By Candy Evans / May 28, 2015 /

I hate these short weeks: I still think it’s Wednesday. Sunday (I think) Brandon Formby wrote a story that appeared almost to be lifted from the Marcos Ronquillo campaign: the spectacular growth of our northern neighbors — Denton and Collin Counties — dwarfs Dallas’ piddly growth and is not necessarily good for Dallas County. Why? Because…

Think We’ve Got it Bad With This Rain? Pity the Poor Ranchers and Horse Property Agents

By Candy Evans / May 27, 2015 /

I was thinking the only thing worse than living with all this rain and mud and mess is living where there is a whole lot more mud & mess all the time — like the country. Horse farms. So I reached out to our Farm & Ranch correspondent on SecondShelters.com, Kathryn Roan, who is ready to hit…