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: A Noble New Home Stuffed to the Gills for Less Than $1Mil in White Rock Elementary

By Candy Evans / July 17, 2014 /

I think I have seen it all. This is a great big brand new family home that can be your’s for less than one million, in a new subdivision just south of LBJ Freeway — the ALMOST FINISHED LBJ Freeway, in a hot school district. And it even has a front porch! Here you have…

If Print is Dying, Why Do Realtors Still Waste Money Advertising on a Corpse?

By Candy Evans / July 16, 2014 /

You may have gotten the message: newspapers and some print products are in financial trouble. Newspapers, and now even broadcast, has a shrinking audience. The number of people who used a print newspaper in the last week to get local news ranged from 36% in metro areas to 42% in small cities, according to a study released…

There’s Gold in This Northwest Dallas Dirt: Buy, Lease, Hold, Build

By Candy Evans / July 15, 2014 /

This is one of my favorite areas in Dallas, one that always holds a ton of promise and where we can see evidence of real estate development progress every day. I am talking about Thornberry Lane, right off Northwest Highway, west of Midway but before Mixon and Marsh. To the north and east are multi…

Jim Williamson of ID Collection On Design, Best Barstools, and Guests Who Are the Life of the Party

By Candy Evans / July 15, 2014 /

Newbie for all ye summertime readers: we will be sharing Jim Williamson of ID Collection’s fun blog musings as we pump him for latest design trends for our homes. This week he writes about cool bar stools — you can never have enough. Also, I like sturdy bar stools that don’t knock peeps over, ‘specially after…

West Nile Virus Found on Brookshire Drive in Preston Hollow, Spraying Tonight?

By Candy Evans / July 14, 2014 /

I don’t know about you, but the mosquitos are so bad this year I have taken to carrying OFF in my purse! They are biting me like crazy, and in fact the City of Dallas has found signs of the virus in the 6600 block of Brookshire, in 75230. The City was planning to spray…