Candy Evans

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

Escape to Albany: A Fandangle-y Great Family Compound Near Art Prison in the Hottest Ranch Home Town in Texas

By Candy Evans / October 16, 2014 /

This summer I had the chance to visit an amazing property in Albany, Texas, about 125 miles due west, where I understand Trevor Rees-Jones recently bought land. I’m hearing more and more about this part of Texas, which I called west texas until I actually SAW west Texas a few weeks ago! When I was…

Escape Ebola With This: A Dang 4200 Square Foot Barndominium With Concrete Floors You Can Bleach

By Candy Evans / October 16, 2014 /

Don’t know about you, but I’m thinking the ‘burbs and the boonies are looking mighty fine right about now. No worries of Ebola out there in the country, right? (Maybe. Recall you can only get it from the body fluids of an infected person. Or monkeys.)

Checking on Mark Cuban’s Preston Hollow Lots: Gates Sets Land Use Meeting for Oct. 30

By Candy Evans / October 16, 2014 /

  So as Eric Nicholson over at The Dallas Observer pointed out, Mark Cuban seems to have plans to build some commercial buildings in Preston Hollow. We are talking on his 10 ish acres at the north-west corner, behind Ebby’s Little White House. In June Cuban added another acre and a half to his holdings.…

Back to House Candy: Mediterranean Villa in Preston Hollow so Huge You Could Stowe Away… the Brady Bunch

By Candy Evans / October 15, 2014 /

An unknown builder built 6326 Lakehurst several years ago, and I went to see it when it was brand new. At the time I was editing DallasDirt for D Magazine, and I know I wrote about this house. He kind of went over the top and then. just. stopped. building. Well, that was a familiar…

Why Am I Excited About Thursday? Because Emily Summers Opens Her New Shop In Highland Park Village!

By Candy Evans / October 15, 2014 /

Here’s the sad thing: I am old enough to remember Studio 54 in New York City. Like, I was there and partied when I was young(er) and way cuter. So when I heard that designing doyenne Emily Summers, mother of Dallas real estate powerhouse Caroline Summers, was opening a design shop at Highland Park Village and…