Candy Evans

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

Climate Change and Real Estate: Should We Insure Trees Like Celebrities Insure Limbs?

By Candy Evans / May 9, 2014 /

We had some really wild weather yesterday, almost as if on cue after this week’s sobering report on Climate Change: Get used to more flooding, wildfires and drought, depending on where you live. In Dallas, we have tornadoes, flash-flooding, and lots of downed trees and power lines. This was taken at Lovers Lane at Inwood Road!

Dallas is Really an Outpost Experiencing Growing Pains, but We Need a Plan (or Two)!

By Candy Evans / May 8, 2014 /

I went to a neighborhood meeting for an un-named neighborhood several months ago. Some of the residents wanted to close off streets to a busy, busy street nearby to put a halt to wild-driving trucks and cars crashing into structures and gouging lawns on corner lots. It’s apparently a huge problem. I went because I…

How to Fight Growth in Your City: Start a Petition Drive

By Candy Evans / May 8, 2014 /

We SAY we want people to move to Dallas, right? Our governor spends oodles of time and tax dollars cutting deals to get businesses to move here, promising them the world if they relocate to Texas. We recently celebrated a major coup when Toyota announced plans to build its North American headquarters here, well in…

Step Away From the House: Yu Darvish Has a Ton of Security in His New Bluffview Home. Now.

By Candy Evans / May 8, 2014 /

And I don’t blame him a bit. Saw four security trucks there last week at the new home I told you about (one is behind truck #3 on far left) and I waited to post this to make sure everything is hooked up. Drive by and look, but don’t touch!

Clone Myself: Fort Worth Has Home Tours, Too! Fairmount Tour of Homes Features Craftsman Bungalows

By Candy Evans / May 8, 2014 /

We know most of us will be on Swiss Avenue this weekend, at the Swiss Avenue Historic District Mother’s Day Tour — I will be there, I’m a docent at Aldrege House, which is owned by the Dallas County Medical Society Alliance, and is where my dear friend Pam Brannon of Briggs Freeman Sothebys was…