Candy Evans

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

Labor Day Special for CandysDirt Readers: Live in This $700K Ranch with Pool on Northaven for FREE!

By Candy Evans / August 30, 2014 /

Free, yes indeed. All you have to pay are the utilities. The owner of this home is seeking a Home Tender. What is that? It’s a person who lives in a home for free, maintains and loves it, and keeps it looking fresh and beautiful for the owner who may not be able to live…

Julio Quinones North Dallas Ranch Turns Up the Sparks in Sparkman Estates

By Candy Evans / August 29, 2014 /

This is one of those listings that drives me to drink because I cannot for the life of me understand how damn wonderful our real estate market is. Do you know that I wake up and pinch myself every single day? We are so lucky, I am so lucky, to be in a real estate…

Rhonda Aikman No Longer Lives in Mimosa. Sad, B/C I Love That Street

By Candy Evans / August 29, 2014 /

We started the week with a fabulous home on one of my favorite Preston Hollow streets, Mimosa, named for the flower, but I love it for the drink. Mimosa’s been quite a street with famous Dallas names. Rhonda Aikman bought a home here in November of 2010. At the time, I teased that maybe it…

Crime in Preston Hollow: Homeowner and His Alarm System Scare Off Intruders

By Candy Evans / August 28, 2014 /

Great report other night on Fox 4 News about a Preston Hollow resident whose home was invaded by a trio in the middle of the night. His security cameras caught the guys, but they hid their faces. What I want to know is, how long before we can get rentina scan technology in home security cameras?…

4307 Armstrong Parkway: A Reborn Texan Coming Soon?

By Candy Evans / August 28, 2014 /

Recall our dismay at the dismantling of 4307 Armstrong Parkway, where the buyers, a Hillsborough, California couple named Williams bought the Donnally family home, tore it down to build a new home, then changed their minds about building (they bought another home in Highland Park). They put the lot back on the market for $5,595.000,…