Candy Evans

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

New England Style Clapboard Charmer in Greenway Has Yankee Style and Frugality

By Candy Evans / October 10, 2014 /

There is something about a clapboard home that draws me in like no other home style can. Perhaps it’s because I spent 6 years of my life living n New England, not to mention every summer a trip to the coast of Maine to the family beach house. Maybe that’s it — the soft blue-gray hues…

Deion Sander’s Prosper Mansion — Excuse Me, Lone Star on Preston — to be Auctioned by Concierge Auction, WITHOUT RESERVE!

By Candy Evans / October 10, 2014 /

Oh boy, I guess that bed is included. We so predicted this, didn’t we? Now it’s official: former Dallas Cowboys football star and perpetual Dallas legend  Deion Sanders‘ Prosper estate — the one sold to  Bloomfield Homes, Inc. out of Southlake — will head to the auction block with ZERO reserve on November 18.  ZERO! The…

Ebola Update: Texas Health Presbyterian Issues Statement On the Death of Ebola Patient Thomas Duncan

By Candy Evans / October 9, 2014 /

This is a Real Estate blog, but many of us have concerns — and maybe even some panic — over our home, Dallas, now being Ground Zero for treating and burying the first Ebola victim in the United States. In New York, airplane-cabin cleaners for a Delta Air Lines Inc. contractor at LaGuardia Airport have…

FINALLY! A Sneak Peek Inside the Lee Trevino Home in Preston Hollow

By Candy Evans / October 9, 2014 /

  Update 9:43pm: I’ve added way more photos for your viewing pleasure, and did you know there are TWO putting greens, not one? A tennis court? Stone bridge with pool? Click MORE to check out all the pictures! We told you last week that Penny Tower Cook now has the listing on the (no longer…

Modern Marvel on Abbott is Shining Star of Contemporary Architecture Row

By Candy Evans / October 7, 2014 /

  Want to know one of the hottest neighborhoods in town where Baby Boomers are buying every inch of land they can grab? I call it Contemporary Architecture Row, a sliver of land between Highland Park, the Katy Trail and Turtle Creek, about one block long in Northern Heights. Here you will find 60 by…