Candy Evans

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

Inwood Mortgage Home of the Week: East Dallas Craftsman is BRAND SPANKING NEW & Will Shelter You From Many a Storm

By Candy Evans / August 1, 2014 /

I pass by this house on the way to my daughter and son-in-law’s Hollywood Heights abode, and have thus watched it being raised from the foundation up. It’s kind of like a kid you car-pooled who you are ever so proud of when you see them get their wings and take flight. This is new…

Kathy Nealy Gets Her Condo Back After New Marketing Career — Oh, Also a Free Lawyer

By Candy Evans / August 1, 2014 /

WFAA-TV Channel 8’s Brett Shipp had an exclusive report on Thursday night’s 10 p.m. news that mentioned our little find we posted that Kathy Nealy, a Dallas political consultant who was indicted last Friday, is back in her Victory park condo after  her 2013 mortgage default was rescinded.  Channel 8’s report may shed some light on…

Did Kathy Nealy Buy Her Victory Condo Out of Foreclosure?

By Candy Evans / July 31, 2014 /

What is this? It’s a public document called a Rescission of Substitute Trustee’s Sale and Cancellation of Substitute Trustee’s Deed. It shows that Kathy Nealy apparently bought or got her Victory condo unit at The Terrace back into her ownership after it was sold to PHH Mortgage on August 9, 2013. The mortgage default was…

Drive Like Your Kids Live Here

By Candy Evans / July 31, 2014 /

These signs are proliferating in Preston Hollow and I’ve seen a few in the Park Cities. Anyone seen them? They are the creation of a Wethersfield, Ct. woman, Petulia Pugliares, who lives between two elementary schools and a high school and thinks people there drive too fast. She has witnessed several accidents and was even…

What Kind of Luxury Apartments Transwestern Might Build Behind Pink Wall — NICE!

By Candy Evans / July 31, 2014 /

It’s August, and still we see those “NO!” NIMBY signs all across Preston Hollow, indicating homeowner’s opposition to a potential multi-family residential development by a company called Transwestern, at Preston and Northwest Highway, Behind the Pink Wall. It’s been eight months since I wrote these words: