Candy Evans

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

Join Us Tuesday Evening at Heritage Auction For a Panel Chat on Luxury Real Estate and How Auctions Are Changing It!

By Candy Evans / September 9, 2013 /

If you are on our email list, which you should be because we have some very cool parties, then you know that I am a panel speaker tomorrow evening at Heritage Luxury Real Estate Auctions 2nd Tuesday… along with Ben Jones, Brad Kimple, and those fantastic Heritage folks Nate Schar and Scott Foerst, who know everything…

Monday Morning Millionaire: Unkefer House on Beverly, Formerly Owned by Angie Barrett, Has Coffee Bar With Sink and Fridge IN THE MASTER CLOSET!

By Candy Evans / September 9, 2013 /

I call this a Dallas Blueblood house! I loved this home when Angie owned it, and I love it even more now that it’s back on the market. Ronald Unkefer, he of First Broadcasting fame, and his beautiful wife Terry Lee, bought 3301 Beverly from Angie Barrett in November, 2008 after selling a larger, and…

Witness to History: Dallas Media Elite Gather at Bent Tree Home of Milli Brown to Honor Hugh Aynesworth

By Candy Evans / September 6, 2013 /

Hugh Aynesworth is the only person to have witnessed the assassination of the president, the arrest of the assassin, and the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. Now, 50 years later —ye gads, it IS 50 years — he recounts the events that have passed into memory and controversy, and sets the record…

Lifestyle Show Coming to WFAA-TV 8 Starring Wife of Dallas Home Builder Simmie Cooper

By Candy Evans / September 5, 2013 /

Get ready for yet another fun show on WFAA-TV Channel with Susie McAuley and Linda Cooper, who just happens to be the wife of Dallas home builder Simmie Cooper. Among other modern and Mediterranean homes he has built, Simmie (who’s from South Africa) built the home that Shawn Marion bought off Strait Lane on Isabella.…

Don't Worry, Be Happy Because If You Live in Dallas, You ARE Happier Than Anyone Else

By Candy Evans / September 5, 2013 /

Are you generally happy? Living in Dallas? I’m sure we all stop to think, what if I lived somewhere else? Like New York City, where we came very close to living years ago, or Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I nixed my beloved native Chicago because it’s too dang cold from December to March or April. San…