Candy Evans

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

Steve Brown via Redfin: About One-Third of Dallas Homes Have Buyers Within Two Weeks of Hitting the Market

By Candy Evans / May 22, 2013 /

I think that we have been preaching this here on CD ever since about January. Steve Brown reports that “more than 20 percent of the Dallas-area properties which were listed for sale in April had a contract in one week or less.” We are hot, in fact, one of the hottest residential real estate markets…

After 12 Years, Ursuline Academy Gets to Build a Lighted Soccer Field!

By Candy Evans / May 22, 2013 /

The long-running, and sometimes acrimonious debate over whether Ursuline Academy can build a lighted soccer field finally ended this afternoon at City Hall. After 12 years, Ursuline’s request for a lighted athletic field finally got the green light from a unanimous City Council vote, 14 to 0. The specific-use permit will come with some caveats, according to Rudolph…

Mike Modano’s (Willa Ford’s?) House Listed With David Nichols… On Market for $2.495 Million

By Candy Evans / May 21, 2013 /

Over on Mimosa, a few houses from Rhonda Aikman, David Nichols from Allie Beth’s Mathews-Nichol team supreme has the listing for Mike Modano and Willa Ford’s Preston Hollow home. Built by Hawkins-Welwood in 1999, the home has 7,250 square feet, the usual accoutrements of a fine Preston Hollow manse including great kitchen with — oh…

Mike Modano's (Willa Ford's?) House Listed With David Nichols… On Market for $2.495 Million

By Candy Evans / May 21, 2013 /

Over on Mimosa, a few houses from Rhonda Aikman, David Nichols from Allie Beth’s Mathews-Nichol team supreme has the listing for Mike Modano and Willa Ford’s Preston Hollow home. Built by Hawkins-Welwood in 1999, the home has 7,250 square feet, the usual accoutrements of a fine Preston Hollow manse including great kitchen with — oh…

More on the Oklahoma Tornados (Written With One Foot In My Tornado Closet…) and How We Can Help Our Friends/Family in OK

By Candy Evans / May 21, 2013 /

Thanks, Joanna, for posting about the importance of storm shelters. There are a lot of bomb shelters around town — one right next door to me — constructed during the atomic war threats we lived with during the 1960’s when I was a kid. They make great tornado shelters. We had regular bomb drills to cover our…