Candy Evans

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

Monday Morning Millionaire I: Mega Mountain Home With Meditation Room Overlooks the Alleghenys

By Candy Evans / May 19, 2014 /

I happen to be checking out the luxury real estate offerings at The Greenbrier Sporting Club in White Sulphur Springs, West Virgina. Whole story coming up on SecondShelters.com. This place is exploding with growth and fun. Thought you might want a sneak peak to see what five and a half million buys you in the…

Long Cove Opens Limited Priority Reservations for Dodd’s Landing Cottages

By Candy Evans / May 18, 2014 /

It seems like everyone I know is buying a lake home, most of them settling on Long Cove at Cedar Creek Lake.  If you are looking for a waterfront front property closer to Dallas, Those Waterside Cottage Homes over at Long Cove are selling like hotcakes. And as predicted when I was there last summer,…

Friday Four Hundred: Fabulously Restored Mid Century Mod Dollhouse in Mockingbird Hill

By Candy Evans / May 16, 2014 /

You simply have to see this mid century modern jewel box in Lakewood. It’s a home that shows you what happens when you dare to bring in elements of modern 2014 design into a beautiful little house that is now a virtual show piece.

Here Is an Estate Sale You Won’t Want to Miss: the Sunnybrook Home of Mimi Lay

By Candy Evans / May 15, 2014 /

Susan Matusewicz at Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s kindly alerted me to this fabulous sale that I would totally be at if I were not heading for The Greenbrier. You must go this weekend to 4935 Radbrook @ Sunnybrook. Mimi Lay built this wonderfully graceful 7000 square foot home, designed by Cole Smith, on more than tw0 acres…

Inwood Home of the Week: The Most Walkable Mansion in Preston Hollow

By Candy Evans / May 15, 2014 /

You know that Preston Center has been a hotbed of controversy these last few weeks, what with the Transwestern deal Behind the Pink Wall (the recipient of all the “No” signs proliferating) and now Highland House, a luxury high rise apartment vertical by Crosland Development slated for the heart of Preston Center, west of Preston, IF…