Candy Evans

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

The Hottest Undercover Real Estate Deals in Town: Will The Unlisted Change the Way Agents Share Hip Pockets?

By Candy Evans / January 26, 2015 /

What do savvy sellers ask their agents in the pre-listing interview? About getting their home in the newspaper?  Ha! Only if it’s a nursing home! Smart sellers care about two things: internet exposure and — “Do you belong to one of the top hip pocket Facebook groups in town? Pre-sizzle seals the sale. In this white-hot…

11 Acres in South Dallas With a 2,000 Square Foot Master & Dungeon: Uncommon Ground for an Uncommonly Luxurious Estate

By Candy Evans / January 26, 2015 /

Does the name Ralph Wade ring a bell? Me neither. But he sure built a hec of a house –no wait, make that a compound behind gates! —  at 5656 Cedar Ridge Drive in south Dallas, just north of Duncanville and I-20. Look at this place, will you? The master suite alone is 2000 square…

Anti-Mortgage Deduction Urbanist Vishaan Chakrabarti Says Dallas Needs to Find Own Urban Identity

By Candy Evans / January 26, 2015 /

Great news that Vishaan Chakrabarti, author of the book A Country of Cities, a partner with SHoP Architects in New York, and director of the Center of Urban Real Estate at Columbia University, is coming to town next month as keynote speaker for the Physical City panel at the Dallas Festival of Ideas. Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark…

Sherry Hayslip Named Interior Designer of the Year at 26th Annual ARTS Awards

By Candy Evans / January 23, 2015 /

We are so very, very proud of her but we are not at all surprised. Sherry Hayslip, a dear friend for years and owner/founder of Sherry Hayslip Interiors won the Interior Designer of the Year Award at the 26th Annual ARTS Awards on Friday, January 16, 2015. The ARTS Awards was established by the non-profit ART and is…

Our Homes Are Finally Safe: SkyMall Files for Bankruptcy, Citing Demise of Print

By Candy Evans / January 23, 2015 /

RIP SkyMall. I have to admit I did leaf through the SkyMall sitting in the back-seat pocket of my last flight from San Francisco to Dallas. Then I used hand sanitizer.