Candy Evans

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

Coyote That Attacked a 2-Year-Old While Sitting on Porch in White Rock Valley Has Been Located

By Candy Evans / May 3, 2022 /

We hear them at night — the coyotes howling. Like many property owners, we think they are part of the appeal of our woodsy neighborhood. My husband and I sometimes see them when we come home, even once a pack of four in my driveway as I pulled into the garage alone one night. We…

RealTalk Poll: Are People Moving to Dallas Because of Our Climate?

By Candy Evans / May 3, 2022 /

Not too long ago, an uprooted Californian wrote an op-ed that grew legs and went Business Insider viral on how awful the climate (and more) in Texas is. The chap had moved to Austin. He wrote it was damp, buggy, hot, and everything was always wet. He also didn’t like the drivers, schools, housing prices,…

This is How You Bring the 1990s Into The 21st Century: 6049 Glendora

By Candy Evans / April 30, 2022 /

This Preston Hollow home brings the 90’s right into 2022 with beauty!

Williamson County Rancher Offers Elon Musk 100 Acres For Free to Move Twitter HQ to Texas

By Candy Evans / April 28, 2022 /

I mean Dallas-Fort Worth, get with it! Can’t someone — Baxter Brinkman, Jerry Jones, Troy Aikman, Mehrdad Moayedi — spare 100 acres up north? Southfork? Westlake? Somewhere? According to Austonia, who in turn received the news from a tweet, a rancher north of Austin in Williamson County is offering Elon Musk free land for him…

Pilot Point Ranch in Prime Horse Country Heads to Auction Block With No Reserve

By Candy Evans / April 27, 2022 /

I have not written about an actual real estate auction in so long, I have to double-check how to even spell it: AUCTION. This one is up in beautiful Pilot Point, the North Texas home of loamy soil and Texas’ horse country extraordinaire, which makes it the most incredible horse riding and rearing part of…