Candy Evans

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

Warm Up to This: Jaap Van Zweden’s Former Ritz Condo Snapped Up by Miami Heat’s Chris Bosh for $3 Million

By Candy Evans / January 6, 2014 /

Why did Miami Heat’s Chris Bosh buy a 4,257 square foot unity at the Ritz Residences I? Maybe for his beautiful former model wife? She knows you can never be too thin, too rich or have too many homes. This sky-castle is a traditional contrast to what the couple has in Miami — an ultramodern compound in…

Ex-Husband of Slain Fort Worth Realtor Had a Troubled, Violent Past

By Candy Evans / January 2, 2014 /

NBC5 has more background on John St. Angelo, the north Fort Worth man who police say stabbed his ex-wife to death just two weeks after their divorce became final. (This photo is from St. Angelo’s Facebook page.) Suzanne Parsons did have a restraining order against her ex. St. Angelo kept a SWAT Team busy for…

New Years Resolutions to Help You Sell a Home in Dallas in… 2014

By Candy Evans / January 1, 2014 /

Number one, as Joanna has learned from her mother, better make sure your house is clean! (Mother is always right!) And if you plan to sell your home in 2014, get ready to have a house that is cleaner than you could have ever imagined. You know Dallas is a hot market, and while you…

Happy New Year 2014 From the Real Estate Obsessed at CandysDirt.com!

By Candy Evans / December 31, 2013 /

By the time you read this, it will be 2014! We wish you a wonderful New Year and may 2014 bring you even more real estate success than 2013. And 2013 was a banner year! Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, we are thinking of you with love and appreciation for sticking with us…

$15,000 for Professional Holiday Lights? Those Fancy Park Cities Christmas Lights Run North of $30,000 — Better See Them Tonight!

By Candy Evans / December 31, 2013 /

The 1% like it bright! This article in the Wall Street Journal a couple weeks ago tickled me: it was like a eureka — people spent thousands of dollars on holiday lights, like $15,000 and upwards, to decorate for the holidays. And further eureka: More Americans are forgoing the difficult and sometimes risky endeavor of…