Candy Evans

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

Cattle Barons Ball This Year Had Some Hot Real Estate…INSIDE Some Hot Real Estate

By Candy Evans / October 24, 2014 /

I was lucky enough to attend Cattle Baron’s this year, Saturday night, my date for the night being the beautiful frauline Bernadette Schaeffler. We had a blast! We had a ball! We saw so many people I lost track of my iphone pics as the night wore on and the Vodka and water flowed. (And…

Classing Up: Townhomes at the Intersection of Inwood & Forest To Be Replaced, Redeveloped (YEAH!)

By Candy Evans / October 24, 2014 /

8:38 a.m. This post has been updated. I say it’s about time: the northwest corner of Inwood and Forest, known as “Forest Wood”, is going to get a much-needed facelift. Wait, strike that: try a major gutting from the ground up. Yep, those 1974 rental townhomes are about to go far away, replaced by sturdier, prettier,…

Owner of Ebola Halloween House Says If You Don’t Like It, Go Swim in a Lake

By Candy Evans / October 23, 2014 /

Thanks to  Naheed Rajwani at the Dallas Morning News for digging down into the owner of the home that has created the most sensational Halloween display in Texas, and in maybe the whole world: He is James Faulk and from what Naheed writes, Faulk totally had Ebola on the brain when he put up the biohazard decorations…

Owner’s Barely Gone but the Real Estate Vultures Are Already Circling This Prime Highland Park Property

By Candy Evans / October 23, 2014 /

I mean, really? Jack G. Penson, a noted Dallas businessman and philanthropist died on September 25th, and I guess developers and Realtors must comb the obits because the poor family has been deluged with letters and phone calls asking for the hand of this house, an O’Neil Ford built in 1954, 8900 square feet, and…

Historic Dallas High School Under Contract, and Jack Mathew’s Name Is On the Contract

By Candy Evans / October 23, 2014 /

You know that beautiful, 107 year old Dallas High School (once the home of Crozier Tech) that sits adjacent to the Dallas area Rapid Transit Pearl Street Station, at Bryan and Pearl, north of downtown? Comes word that Dallas developer Jack Matthews has it under contract, with plans to redevelop it into — hopefully — residential living. The…