Candy Evans

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

This Gentlemen's Ranch With Storm Shelter Will Let Dad Be a Total Jack Ass for Father's Day… Go For It!

By Candy Evans / June 15, 2013 /

First of all, Dad, take a peak at these vitals: 3986-16-8000. No, that is not some super huge bust size –it’s the square footage on this amazing country estate in Sunnyvale that comes on 16 acres with a stocked pond, rolling terrain, and asses in the backyard. Yes, asses, as in donkeys. 8000? That’s how…

Nasher Says No to Museum Tower’s Offer to Replace Oculi Roof

By Candy Evans / June 14, 2013 /

Back to the Hatfields and McCoys. Yesterday we reported that Trustees of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, which owns Museum Tower, were told by their experts there is only one solution to the building’s glare problem: re-orienting the light receptors on the Nasher roof by removing and replacing the existing. The receptors, called oculi,…

Nasher Says No to Museum Tower's Offer to Replace Oculi Roof

By Candy Evans / June 14, 2013 /

Back to the Hatfields and McCoys. Yesterday we reported that Trustees of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, which owns Museum Tower, were told by their experts there is only one solution to the building’s glare problem: re-orienting the light receptors on the Nasher roof by removing and replacing the existing. The receptors, called oculi,…

Breaking: Museum Tower Says Glare 100% Solved by Changing Nasher Roof, and MT Will Foot the Bill

By Candy Evans / June 13, 2013 /

Comes word a few minutes ago that the Board of Trustees of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, which owns Museum Tower, has found and presented a solution the the reflective glare issue that has been a subject of a sometimes contentious debate now for more than a year. That solution is changing the…

My New Real Estate Crush: Andres Duany, Urban Planning Genius

By Candy Evans / June 12, 2013 /

I have a huge new crush, HUGE: Andres Duany, founding partner at Duaney Plater-Zyberk & Co, and widely regarded as the Godfather of the New Urbanism, a movement that seeks to end suburban sprawl and ignite a return to urban living. I met Andres in, ironically, downtown Atlanta at a national real estate convention and it was…