Candy Evans

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

Build It, and They Will Come… in Droves to Lease in North Texas

By Candy Evans / January 30, 2014 /

If it appears that apartments are going up on every street corner in Dallas, well, they are. The Dallas-Fort Worth are is going to be the nation’s top apartment leasing market over the next three years, according to a new report by the folks at Jones Lang LaSalle. Perhaps you, like me, see the cranes…

The Williamsburg (and Bushwick) of Dallas? Oak Cliff and Deep Ellum?

By Candy Evans / January 29, 2014 /

Gawker asks, “What is your city’s Williamsburg? What’s its hippest—or formerly hippest—or sometimes just youngest—neighborhood, the one with the art galleries and the boutiques and the lines for brunch? (And what, for that matter, is its Bushwick, or “Next Williamsburg”?) If you don’t know off the top of your head, don’t worry. We do, thanks…

Breaking: Champ d'Or On the Market for $35 Million in Hickory Creek

By Candy Evans / January 28, 2014 /

Yes, you heard that right and no, this is not deja vue. The Dallas real estate market is back, and so is Champ d’Or, listed this time with that go-getter of a Rogers Healy, priced at $35 million. You may recall the 48,000-square-foot Hickory Creek mansion (basically Denton), known as Champ d’Or, which translates to “Fields…

Breaking: Champ d’Or Listed for $35 Million in Hickory Creek

By Candy Evans / January 28, 2014 /

The Dallas real estate market is back, and so is Champ d’Or, listed this time with that go-getter of a Rogers Healy, priced at $35 million. You may recall the 48,000-square-foot Hickory Creek mansion (basically Denton), known as Champ d’Or, which translates to “Fields of Gold,” was put up for auction by Concierge Auctions out of New…

Former Dallas Cowboy Safety Gerald Sensabaugh Lists One Story Starwood Manse in Frisco

By Candy Evans / January 28, 2014 /

Oakland native Gerald Sensabaugh got a five year contract extension from the Dallas Cowboys after years of versatile ball playing. In early 2013, he was released from the team to save cap space, retiring forever as a Dallas Cowboy. In May, 2013, just last year, he retired from the NFL. Well,  it seems Sensabaugh is now…