Candy Evans

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

Zulia Zulia: Judge Orders Listings to Keep On Flowing to Trulia

By Candy Evans / February 25, 2015 /

So apparently Trulia’s agreement with ListHub to receive listing data was set to expire next spring, 2016. But ListHub decided to turn it off sooner, like February 26, based on the Trulia-Zillow merger. ListHub — which is owned by Realtor.com operator Move Inc., a News Corp. subsidiary — announced Thursday that it had terminated its syndication…

NTREIS Opts to Give MLS Listings to Zillow — How Do You Feel About That?

By Candy Evans / February 24, 2015 /

You may know by now that Zillow has closed on its acquisition of Trulia, without so much as a blink from the US Department of Justice. You may also know that uniform listing feeds — aka House Porn —  to Zillow from all 810 MLS in this country ends April 7, when the age-old agreement…

Baxter Brinkmann Sells Last Ranchland Hold Out In Frisco, but Some Say Country There is Going, Going GONE

By Candy Evans / February 24, 2015 /

Man it’s hot in Frisco. No, there’s ice up there, but the market is so hot it could almost melt this ice. This area of North Texas has added more than 115,000 jobs with more coming —  Toyota Motor Co., FedEx Office, and now Liberty Mutual Insurance. Builders cannot build homes fast enough to house the…

Dallas Icemageddon: Are Open Houses Cancelled Today?

By Candy Evans / February 23, 2015 /

I mean, how do you show homes in this kind of weather? My pool is surrounded by ice! Share your secrets for schlepping clients on icy roads. Here’s the winter weather update from Dallas — is everyone just staying in today around a nice cozy fire? This is how icy it is up in Frisco,…

6645 Northaven, Most Talked About Home In Dallas, Circles Back on the Market for $7.950

By Candy Evans / February 23, 2015 /

You know this house. Everyone talks about it. It is certainly the talk of our neighborhood, and the most expensive home on the block. It has been on the market previously for about two million more dollars — well you know what? You should never, ever slight people for dreaming big. I mean, where would…