Candy Evans

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

TREC to Study Tearing Down Highway 345

By Candy Evans / March 13, 2014 /

Candace Carlisle at the Dallas Business Journal reports that one of the biggest commercial real estate groups in Dallas MAY spend $125,000 to explore the possible tear-down or re-development of Interstate 345. Actually, Robert Wilonsky over at the Dallas Morning News reports the same thing. That group would be the Texas Real Estate Council, or…

Clay Stapp Busts Out AGAIN: New Office on Greenville Avenue, E-Class Mercedes of the Month Club for Top Producing Agents

By Candy Evans / March 12, 2014 /

Clay Stapp just knows how to separate himself from the crowd. The dynamic, fast-growing broker, who handed out orange condoms (“Don’t get screwed on your next real estate deal”) when he launched his very first brokerage in Uptown on Cedar Springs, is busting out again. this time with a beautiful new office on Greenville Avenue…

Spring Break Report: Long Cove Gears Up for More Fun in the Sun at Cedar Creek Lake

By Candy Evans / March 12, 2014 /

A “Proving Ground” for golf, a Toy Barn that is filling up faster than you can say “I’m bored” and a Boater Education Course instructed by the Coast Guard Auxiliary. Long Cove, on the deepest, prettiest end of Cedar Creek Lake, is gearing up for spring… and trying to keep up with spring break. Here’s the…

Long Cove Gears Up, Literally, for Super Fun Spring Season

By Candy Evans / March 12, 2014 /

Doug Gibbs, Director of Resident Services over at Long Cove, tells us he is gearing up for the most active spring season ever. EVER. And he means that literally because The Toy Barn — remember that? — is filling up with athletic equipment of all kinds. From Lacrosse to biking and baseball and fishing, there is enough…

Look at The Plumbing Fixtures Paul Allen Has on His $200 Million Yacht

By Candy Evans / March 11, 2014 /

Statues, religious artifacts, what are these? Faucets? Beautiful, quartz, cobalt, jewelled handles to use when you turn on the sink by the French manufacturer THG. Some of these will set you back $20,000 a set for one sink. To put it bluntly, these are fixtures you write out of the contract when you sell your…