Candy Evans

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

70’s Midcentury Mod Near Disney Streets Has Four Car Garage and Sounds of Silence

By Candy Evans / January 23, 2015 /

Oh how we love the Disney Streets in North Dallas. Pinnochio, Happy, Grumpy, Sleepy, Snow White — home to some of this city’s best mid century modern architecture and the biggest fourth of July parade in town. This is a neighborhood to re-define all neighborhoods, broken in and uplifted by the Gayborhood principle. And when there is a home…

Since When Is It a Crime to Let Your Kids Walk Home From School?

By Candy Evans / January 22, 2015 /

Hold the presses! Here we are having multiple conversations about the quality of  neighborhood life, about walkability, about living near where you shop, work, play, about building safe, loving environments that people call home. We are seeing a huge emergence of milennials wanting to ditch autos and live a more genuine lifestyle that is not…

RealTech: Like Father, Like Son, Real Estate is All In The Family

By Candy Evans / January 22, 2015 /

This is sort of a teaser before I sit down for an interview with John Backes, founder of RealTech, but first  get used to more scenes like this: start-up founders pitching their tech companies to a group of people in an office space that is shared by several different entrepreneurs called co-working. This happened Tuesday…

Emerging Trends: Shared Economy May Alter Office and Transportation Needs

By Candy Evans / January 21, 2015 /

Just have to post this after a reader sent it my way, especially on the heels of Monday night’s AIA film and panel discussion about Dallas, the Trinity Toll Road/Parkway, and the automobile’s domination of our lives. Millennials are trying to be less car-centric. Something that might be contributing to that is our work habits.…

The Walls Are Rising: And They Sure Built a Whole Lot of Fences

By Candy Evans / January 20, 2015 /

Monday night, the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects made it pretty clear to about 200 people that the proposed Trinity Tollway or Parkway or whatever it is will be a huge eyesore on Dallas. Or, shall I say, another huge eyesore. Sadly, there were no city councilmen or women at the Sixth…