Candy Evans

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

Inwood Home of the Week: Customized Family Home on the Best Cul de Sac is Queen of STORAGE!

By Candy Evans / April 25, 2014 /

This is one of my favorite “favorite homes” for several reasons. First of all, I combed through this house on a recent tour and don’t even think I, Ms. Wordsmith (or is it smythe?) can do it justice. The home was custom built by a couple who — I just have to say it —…

GiveBackHomes Growing in DFW, Across U.S. Using Home Sales to House the Homeless

By Candy Evans / April 25, 2014 /

When did I first tell you all about Giveback Homes, the brain-child of local boy Blake Andrews? There we go: last August, 2013. Here we are, above, in Big D last month. Giveback Homes is a network of socially conscious real estate professionals. Here’s how it works: the agent joins up and a bio page is…

“Les Jardins” on Turtle Creek Sells at Auction for $2,550,000

By Candy Evans / April 25, 2014 /

Sold! Another successful auction by the Concierge Auction peeps who sold off 3808 Turtle Creek late today, a 6300 square foot property last listed at $4.25 million and auctioned without reserve. Winning bid was $2.55 million, which includes the buyer’s premium. The auction happened so fast I actually walked in on the tail end!

Highland House: A New Definition of Luxury High Rise Living for a High Class Demographic

By Candy Evans / April 24, 2014 /

As we have mentioned, Luke Crosland, the man who developed The ilume, a mixed-use retail/residential project at Cedar Springs and Knight Street in Oak Lawn, is hoping to build an extremely high end, $100,000,000 residential apartment community into the very heart of Preston Center, south of Northwest Highway. Crosland, principal of The Crosland Group, developed the 316-unit…

Cesar Pelli’s Beautiful Uptown Crescent Project to Include 1 Acre Greenspace Park

By Candy Evans / April 24, 2014 /

Crescent Real Estate Holdings LLC has a $225 million investment in Uptown, and now we have a better idea of what that investment will look like. In a word, stunning. Architect Cesar Pelli has released preliminary renderings of Crescent’s 600,000 square foot, mixed-use high rise project at McKinney Avenue and Olive Street, right across the street from…