Candy Evans

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

Marcos Ronquillo: Voting for the Next Mayor of Dallas Starts TODAY

By Candy Evans / April 27, 2015 /

Well, no, that is not Marco Ronquillo. That is Tab Hunter (God is he hot!) with me at the USA Film Festival’s grandest soiree Saturday night at a private home on Rheimes Place in Highland Park where we celebrated the finale of one of this city’s greatest arts programs. This year’s festival was incredible. Dedicated…

Stage Lights: Oral Fixation’s Writing on the Wall Featured REAL House Candy

By Candy Evans / April 25, 2015 /

A month has come and gone since the inaugural performance of The Writing on the Wall, an obsession with true life tales for Nicole Stewart and Anton Schlesinger’s Oral Fixation. If you missed the show, you missed a great chance to throw tomatoes at me and get some nice juices all over my horse hair.…

Dallas Home Builder’s Pride in Hot Devonshire is Dripping With Charm

By Candy Evans / April 24, 2015 /

This is a beautiful almost newly constructed home at 5735 Stanford in the heart of Devonshire that was taken down to the studs in 2012 by quality home builder LRO Construction (a CandysDirt approved home builder) and expanded. When you see it, you will think it’s a brand new house. The traditional charm just evokes images…

So Before You Vote: Adam McGough’s Utility Bills at His HP Condo Were Apparently Completely Appropriate

By Candy Evans / April 23, 2015 /

About Adam McGough’s utility bills at his Highland Park condominium: we may have been misled into misleading readers that his energy consumption at his Crestpark condo was so low that he could not possibly have ever lived there. Here is what we said: Well, let’s put it this way – they either have the world’s…

Fairview Find: Laundry Chute, Two Acres, Two Dishwashers, Two Peas in a Pond

By Candy Evans / April 22, 2015 /

True story: I was sitting on an airplane Sunday night, heading back to Dallas, working on this blog post. The woman next to me looks over my shoulder (we were NOT in First Class!) and says, oh we have looked at that house! It’s gorgeous! I start to talk with her about real estate. Guess…