Candy Evans

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

Neimans Makes Statement About Fraudulent Use of (Some) Customer’s Credit Cards

By Candy Evans / January 22, 2014 /

Neiman Marcus came out with the first official statement I have seen regarding their credit card fraud hacking dilemma that occurred last month, not on as large scale as the one that hit 110 million Target shoppers, but still caused plenty of problems. Reportedly that malicious software was created by a Russian teenager. Last week, I…

Lakewood Resident Tells Story of Her Pregnancy and Late Term Abortion

By Candy Evans / January 22, 2014 /

Here is one of the finest columns ever written by Dallas Morning News columnist Steve Blow. The subject is a can’t win topic: half the people who read it will agree, half won’t. But Steve Brown did such an excellent job of letting the narrator, Nicole Stewart, tell the story, her story, it’s almost as…

Milieu: Snazzy Home Decor Magazine Spotlights Greenway Park Home of Jan Barboglio

By Candy Evans / January 22, 2014 /

Photo by Fran Brennan Well, I got to meet the people from Milieu last week as Houstonian Pamela Pierce and her entourage — Brooke Stuckey, Peter Vitale — descended upon Dallas and did up a party at Jan’s exquisite Greenway Parks home, that was as rich, bountiful and elegant as Pierce’s thickly-paged glossy shelter pub. (Or…

Help This Loyal Real Estate Reader & Charles Dilbeck Fan: He Wants MORE!

By Candy Evans / January 21, 2014 /

A Reader writes: Hey Candy, i was just wanting to know if you knew of any websites or books that are about Charles Dilbeck or have a list of the homes he designed. He is my favorite architect and i know he built a ton of houses in Dallas but i have also found homes…

94.4% OR: Dallas Apartment Demand Stronger Than Anywhere Else in U.S.

By Candy Evans / January 21, 2014 /

With an occupancy rate of almost 95%, apartment demand in Dallas/Fort Worth was stronger than anywhere else in the country in 2012 and remained high in 2013. And looks like the sky will only be the limit in 2014: rents will be climbing about 3 per cent. All this good stuff (if you are a…