Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
If you haven’t heard about the furor over a proposed luxury high rise apartment complex at the intersection of Preston and Northwest Highway, and if you haven’t seen the “No” signs proliferating all over Preston Hollow as far west as Midway, as far north as Forest Lane, then you either live south of the Trinity…
This is really quite unprecedented: After a few months on the market, Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s beautiful Susan Marcus has sold a significant Dallas property at 10300 Strait Lane. That is, or rather, was, the home of Nancy Dedman, designed by Dallas modernist architect Bud Oglesby, built in 1971. The home was listed for $7,490,000 and closed…
If Bluffview is good enough for Yu Darvish, well, then it’s good enough for a whole lot of contemporary-loving peeps! That’s why the wonderful builders at LRO Residential Custom Builders chose Bluffview and a treed, woodsy half acre lot at 4341 Taos to build a pristine model of contemporary amazement. Really, it’s one of the…
This charming little angel belongs to Dallas philanthropist, socialite and blogger Tanya Foster and her hubby, Pete. They bought a 60 by 160 foot lot at 7526 Colgate, near Boedecker, thinking of building a dream house. “We are about to be empty nesters and were trying to “forecast” what we needed,” says Tanya. “Turns out,…
By now you’ve probably heard that Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings blamed Dallas’s loss of the big Toyota Headquarters to Plano move on low performing Dallas Public Schools, or DISD. In an interview on KERA’s Think, Rawlings said Toyota ultimately decided to relocate to Plano because of the schools in Dallas. “We don’t get Toyota in Dallas…
