Candy Evans

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

Real Estate Investment Nose: America's High-Tech Innovation Hubs Coming to You From Some Surprisingly Remote Towns

By Candy Evans / August 16, 2013 /

It’s worth checking out this map and article from Richard Florida over at The Atlantic Cities so you can see how growth in high-tech start up firms — places where brains and brawn will come together and create jobs — is no longer taking place in the north or northeast. And not so much either…

Low Interest Rates May Not be for Everyone: How To Get Your Credit House in Order Before You Buy

By Candy Evans / August 16, 2013 /

The only thing hotter than the temperature in North Texas is our real estate market.  Houses are being snatched on the day they’re listed, and prices are on a steady upward climb. Everyone is raving about the low interest rates that can get you into those houses… hurry before they go up! In fact, experts…

We Are On a Frisco High: First Look at the Dallas Cowboys New Indoor Training Facility

By Candy Evans / August 15, 2013 /

Update: Frisco agent Jlyne Hanback writes to tell me that the eighth high school to open in Frisco will be named “Reedy”, after former Frisco Superintendent Rick Reedy. I had him originally as “Reddy”. That’s what you get when you don’t google everything — thanks much for the correction! My buddy Brad Holden up in Frisco…

Inwood Mortgage House of the Week: Euphoria on Euclid, Cubed!

By Candy Evans / August 14, 2013 /

This baby is like a boyfriend you had in college who you wanted so very badly but he married the prom queen (or, depending on your pref, king) and went off. You thought of him or her occasionally, perhaps while dusting off photographs. (He/she was BEAUTIFUL. Like in a Kennedy-clanesque way. He/she was your “girl…

Monday Morning Millionaire: Weldon Turner-Designed Beauty at 3800 Miramar Evokes Fooshee & Cheek

By Candy Evans / August 12, 2013 /

I’m just back from the beach, so I was catching up on my news reading when I saw that there was some pretty hairy crime in the Park Cities. But I’m not going to let the news of a robbery at knifepoint make you think that Highland Park isn’t a safe place to make your…