Candy Evans

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

NAREE’s 63rd Annual Journalism Competition Awards Announced: Real Estate Winners From Coast to Coast

By Candy Evans / June 10, 2013 /

Yeah, we are kind of on Cloud 999 today but really, congrats are in order for ALL NAREE winners. This is an amazing group of reporters and we are super honored to be among them! Real estate affects us all deeply, and what these writers do is break open the hidden stories and deals we…

NAREE’s 63rd Annual Journalism Competition Awards Announced: Real Estate Winners From Coast to Coast

By Candy Evans / June 10, 2013 /

Yeah, we are kind of on Cloud 999 today but really, congrats are in order for ALL NAREE winners. This is an amazing group of reporters and we are super honored to be among them! Real estate affects us all deeply, and what these writers do is break open the hidden stories and deals we…

Top Ten Issues Facing Real Estate Today: Beaches, Batteries and Baby Boomers

By Candy Evans / June 6, 2013 /

Good morning! Well, it was morning when I wrote this in Atlanta here at the National Association of Real Estate Editor’s spring conference where we are hearing from Real Estate experts from across the country, rubbing shoulders with fellow real estate journos and bloggers from the four corners of the U.S. I love this stuff,…

Magnificent Mid Century: Childhood Home of Dallas Filmmaker & Radio Personality Quin Mathews Has Mickey Mantle and Frank Sinatra Connections

By Candy Evans / June 6, 2013 /

I love our 1950’s ranches. Not only do they remind me of the homes I grew up in back in suburban Illinois, they remind me of one of our best Dallas homes on 4307 Melissa Lane. So when I heard that Dallas film maker and radio personality Quin Mathews’ childhood home was on the market,…

Now It’s Getting Serious: Realtor’s Group Creates Task Force to Manage Proliferation of Hip Pocket, Non-MLS Sales

By Candy Evans / June 4, 2013 /

That Realtors group would be the North Texas MLS, or NTREIS as we call it. We know our market is hot. Buying a house in some parts of Dallas has never been like this before. There is only about a 3.5 month supply of real estate inventory in the North Texas market as of April.…