Candy Evans

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

Estate Puts Downton Abbey to Shame at a Price Reduced by Almost $5 Million!

By Candy Evans / November 6, 2014 /

This is one of my most treasured homes in Dallas. It could be so because I am friends with the people who first built it in 1996, and I watched it go up step by very careful, lovingly placed step. It sits on a luscious piece of land that the original owner searched high and…

Will Incoming Governor Greg Abbott Make Duncanville Hip Again?

By Candy Evans / November 5, 2014 /

That’s where he went to to high school, and had his entire class down with him in Austin last night. (He grew up in Wichita Falls. ) I happened to have been in Duncanville yesterday afternoon, looking at real estate with Monte Anderson and Daniel Flores. Getting warmed up for the write up — I…

Chris Bosh Is Now Selling the Ritz Condo He Bought from Jaap Van Sweden & Michael Guttman

By Candy Evans / November 5, 2014 /

Remember back when Miami Heat’s Chris Bosh bought a 4,257 square foot unit at the Residences at the Ritz Carlton I? Not only was it owned by Dallas Symphony Orchestra Maestro Jaap Van Zweden AND violinist Michael Guttman, it was so unlike the ultra modern pad he and his wife, Adrienne Williams, had in Miami —…

Sams Will be Probably Most Likely Go Up Across from CityPlace While Court Battle Rages

By Candy Evans / November 5, 2014 /

On Friday, Dallas City Attorney Warren Ernst filed an appeal to Judge Phyllis Lister Brown’s October 14 ruling in favor of the East Village Association to stop that big box Sam’s Club that Trammell Crow Company is building acros from Cityplace, the one that has so many neighbors up in arms. It has the City…

CD Exclusive: Mark Cuban Tells Neighbor He Intends to Continue With Plans to Develop Acres at Northwest Highway and Preston Road

By Candy Evans / November 4, 2014 /

As you know, Mark Cuban has a lot of Preston Hollow residents anxious over alleged plans to redevelop about 8.5ish acres of primo Preston Hollow residential dirt he has acquired over the years, since about 1988, and more recently this year, at the northwest corner of Preston and Northwest Highway. He’s got them in the…