Candy Evans

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

Jose Calderone Scores Points With Clean University Park Manse on Villanova

By Candy Evans / September 18, 2013 /

Jose Calderone, the Mav’s new point guard, came to Dallas from Detroit and I would just love to be a fly on the wall when he and his wife, Ana Hurtado, talk about Dallas real estate. Here is how I think it might have gone the very first time they looked: “Can you believe these…

The Kitchen is the Heart of the Home: Ebby Halliday Partners With Capital Distributing & a $10,000 Kitchen Upgrade for YOU

By Candy Evans / September 17, 2013 /

No kidding — $10,000 would go pretty dang far in my house, my kitchen, how about yours’? Ebby Halliday Realtors has found a match made in heaven. What do you get when you cross Capital Distributing, the absolute best place in Texas for the top appliances, with Ebby real estate? The best kitchens anywhere and…

Monday Morning Millionaire: You CAN Get Into Park Cities Luxury (& Schools) for a Smidgen Over a Million

By Candy Evans / September 16, 2013 /

Bradford, McCullough, Highland Park High School…  yes, while DISD continues to find an identity, your kiddos can be walking to and from school in the Park Cities. Best of all, you get an updated, liveable, classic home with 1936 charm and structure, but modernized to 2013 form and functionality. This was a circa 1930’s duplex the…

Can Mike Miles Whip DISD Into Shape as Fast as He Sold His North Dallas Home?

By Candy Evans / September 16, 2013 /

I would like to think so. There are so many varying opinions out there on his performance, and as for this last round of doo-doo,  I am still not sure I understand. What did Mike Mikes do that was so wrong and grounds for dismissal? Oh, he did not support his board, that’s it. And…

More Broker Cat-Fighting Over Fort Worth Dirt: Now Williams Trew (Sotheby's) Is Suing Briggs Freeman (Sotheby's)

By Candy Evans / September 16, 2013 /

I told you a few weeks ago that Sotheby’s International sued Briggs Freeman, one of it’s own franchisees, due to the beefs of another one of it’s franchisees, Williams Trew Real Estate Services of Fort Worth. Turns out the judge did not grant Sotheby’s a temporary restraining order last month. Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater threw…