Candy Evans

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

Owner of the Dallas Morning News Acquires New Local Digital Companies as Print Rev Continues to Decline

By Candy Evans / January 5, 2015 /

If you didn’t know this in 2014, know it in 2015: the ways you reach consumers through marketing are changing, and changing fast. That is very important for anyone selling real estate — agent, broker or homeowner — to understand. Social media and online portals are flying light years over print for advertising new listings,…

Mark Cuban Tearing Down Homes on His Preston Hollow Property

By Candy Evans / January 5, 2015 /

Yeah, his guys were busy working in the frosty cold over the holidays. Looks like the scraper this time was the tear-down at 5830 Averill Way. 8601 Jordan Way is still standing in all it’s glory. What does Mark Cuban have planned for Preston Center? Don’t touch that dial!

Some Fancy Architectural Digs Up in The Hood of Glen Abbey: Won’t You Be Tony Romo’s Neighbor?

By Candy Evans / January 5, 2015 /

You know how we told you that Tony Romo is building a giant, and I do mean giant, home up in Glen Abbey?  Surely you are caught up on all this. That story ran last April — the home must be nearing completion. The new Romo home is next door to Peter Shaddock, a well-known,…

Texas or Texia? A Look at How the Thin Film Plastic Bag Ban Affected Los Angeles

By Candy Evans / January 3, 2015 /

This is so marginally real estate, except that every Californian I know is sending me fun emails tonight, saying, why move to Dallas? You guys are getting more like us every day? Like this email: Hey, I heard you guys just got a bag ban. When are you going to change your name to Texia?…

Why Is Tom Cruise Selling His Telluride Home for (Gulp!) $59 Million?

By Candy Evans / January 2, 2015 /

10,000 plus square feet with only four bedrooms, four baths and some change. Sounds like some of our Preston Hollow listings. But warning: Telluride has heated up. Looking for something a bit more affordable than $59 million? We’ve already told you about the the Villas at Cortina. We’ll tell you about some more, too.  But…