Candy Evans

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

Food, Fabrics, Fab Booze & Chateaux: Join Rusty Arena & Timothy Corrigan at ID Collection Tuesday PM

By Candy Evans / October 21, 2013 /

As you know, The fabulous ID Collection has joined the CandysDirt family on our designer page, because we love designers (Blue Sky Living, Bernadette Schaeffler, Margaret Chambers, Jason Lenox) and even our fanciest real estate would be bare-ass naked without them! So we are kind of psyched to tell you about a partee this Tuesday…

MetroTex Forecast 2014: Strategies to Sustain the Market

By Candy Evans / October 18, 2013 /

Live from MetroTex 2014 — Top housing issues we face: sustaining double digit annual price increases? Higher mortgage interest rates? Higher labor and construction costs? Closing down the Fannies: will the private mortgage market be able to fund housing ?

Forecast 2014: Is The Hot Dallas Market Finally Cooling Its Jets?

By Candy Evans / October 18, 2013 /

Well we cannot blame this one on the Republicans: the Dallas real estate market, which had been in a heated frenzy ever since about January 2, has finally cooled heels a bit. It started on Labor Day, Ebby agent Kay Weeks told Steve Brown, when higher mortgage rates and economic uncertainties cooled the market as…

Wife Swap? House Swap? How About Agent Swap? New Real Estate Reality Show Swaps Agents From Different Parts of Town

By Candy Evans / October 18, 2013 /

Just poached this from Keith Yonick’s Facebook page because I think it is hilarious! He says a new reality show is in the works called The Real Estate Switch -a show about a sophisticated, urban agent in Oak Lawn who switches places with a long time good ole boy. “I have to make pimento cheese…

Inwood Mortgage Home of the Week: Original Kraft Home of Dines and Kraft Hits Market

By Candy Evans / October 17, 2013 /

You have heard of Dines & Kraft style homes, yes? They are those rock-solid, sturdy homes with fascinating detail, stained glass and a Tudoresque-feel clustered in what is now known as the Lakewood Conservation District. They were designed by Dines & Kraft in the 1920s and 30s, Dines and Kraft simply being Dallas developers who built exceptionally well-constructed…