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: Anton Korn, Stained Glass and a Lucite Bathtub

By Candy Evans / June 12, 2014 /

I am in Houston attending the National Association of Real Estate Editors annual spring conference, along with Joanna, and I just got back from a private tour of River Oaks. Mama mia, I am still on the House Porn high! So I bring you a version of the very type of homes one finds in…

Wednesday Wonder: The Dickinson House on Professor Row Lives the Secret Life of Bees

By Candy Evans / June 11, 2014 /

I’m heading east for a college reunion soon, back to the Ivy-covered walls of Dartmouth, Baker Library and to catch tea at Sanborn House. But it was Dickinson House in Dallas that put me in the collegiate mood. Dickinson House, 3441 University, is in the heart of Professor Row, as they call it, because the…

Nancy Holloway Bids Adieu to Briggs Freeman, Major Ola to The Garden District at Southlake Town Square

By Candy Evans / June 10, 2014 /

Here’s how how mature and viable a community Southlake is: developers are already planning on what homeowners of those mega Vaquero, etc. mansions are going to do when their nests are empty. What will they do? Move closer in to Southlake Town Square to some beautiful, high end luxury homes called The Garden District. Keep…

Michael Young and Bride Buy Grand Deloache Residence in Honeypot of Sunnybrook, Preston Hollow

By Candy Evans / June 10, 2014 /

Do you think they just want to be near Yu Darvish? Pro baseball infielder Michael Young — former, that is, I think — and his wife, Christina Barbosa, have purchased a massive, stately grand house on the fabulous street of Deloache, the same street as Mark Cuban’s humble abode. Yes, THAT Deloache,  in Sunnybrook Estates,…

The Accidental Activist: Who Is Jonas Park?

By Candy Evans / June 10, 2014 /

He’s a quiet, almost shy young man who was born in Korea and came to the United States to study in 1991. Jonas Park lives in East Dallas and has emerged as the leader of a small activist group not happy that a Sam’s Wholesale Club is moving into their neighborhood. “The last thing I…