Candy Evans

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

Dallas Realtor Brian Davis Finally Has a Home He Can Sink His Teeth Into

By Candy Evans / June 25, 2013 /

Brian Davis is one of my fave people. The man knows real estate and when he put his last home on the market, I almost moved to Oak Cliff. Remember this puppy? It was just so DAMN cute! Seriously, I could have eaten that home. Well, Brian is at it again. He just found a…

Monday Morning Millionaire: Make Your Primary Home a Vaca Pad — Santa Fe, Ole

By Candy Evans / June 24, 2013 /

It’s June, and we are knee-deep in summer vacation. Why not retain that summer home feeling YEAR ROUND with a home that looks like a vacation home? That way you get a little vaca every day! I often joke that Santa Fe is a bedroom community of Dallas. Well, it is. American has non-stop flights…

Dallas Luxury Real Estate Forum: Five Folks Who Move With The Big Boys (and Girls) Set to Speak

By Candy Evans / June 24, 2013 /

Is your agent doing everything he or she can to sell your multi-million dollar property? Or, for that matter, your $300K starter home? So there is a chi chi Realtor event tomorrow at the Park Cities Club, sponsored by Chicago Title and WR Starkey Mortgage, with Laurie Moore of the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing.…

Fed Moves and Grooves: What Does This Mean for Mortgage Rates????

By Candy Evans / June 20, 2013 /

Mortgage rates are rising, the Fed is going to ease out of bond purchases and choke back on the reins. What does this mean for our real estate market, specifically, home mortgage rates? I grabbed Guardian’s Marcus McCue fresh out of a meeting with the Mortgage Bankers Association. In fact, he wrote his response while in…

Awful Lot of Sex (and Other Big Things) Going On in Some Dallas Neighborhoods…

By Candy Evans / June 20, 2013 /

Sometimes you need to know interesting things about the neighborhoods you choose to live in. Let’s take The Park Cities and Preston Hollow, and what goes on behind closed doors in Preston Center, where both communities ah, shall we say, shop. We get this hysterical story from Eric Nicholson at The Dallas Observer. In one…