Candy Evans

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

The Glow of Real Estate: Do You Have It? How to get It!

By Candy Evans / March 29, 2013 /

I have The Glow of Real Estate. It happens whenever I talk about Real Estate, marketing on the internet, and how hot our market is. It also helps to be standing in front of a group of my fave Realtors in front of a great big screen with CandysDirt.com projecting on a projector. The Glow…

Dallas Real Estate Market Almost Back to Golden Days. Almost. Sigh.

By Candy Evans / March 28, 2013 /

So D’Ann Petersen told Sheryl Jean at the Dallas Morning News that home prices are rising so fast in North Texas, she’s tempted to sell her house. D’Ann Petersen is a business economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. My question for her is this: if you sell, where would you go? Inventory is so…

Floor Me: This Surface Has Your Footprints All Over It…

By Candy Evans / March 27, 2013 /

That’s because it’s made of sand. Sure, I found it at the delectable Albany in Nassau, but what a great floor for a family room! Details over on SecondShelters.com…

The Floor Report: How About Floors Made of Sand in Your Second Home?

By Candy Evans / March 27, 2013 /

I saw these coolio floors in a restaurant down in Nassau, The Bahamas, where we visited second homes this past weekend. This is the floor at a beach club restaurant called, appropriately, “Footprints”. Yes, the entire floor is made of sand. No, they don’t vacuum it but rather sweep and rake it nightly. The restaurant is adjacent…

A CandysDirt Exclusive: Meet the Folks Who Bought Tim Headington's Ten Million Dollar Penthouse at the Ritz!

By Candy Evans / March 26, 2013 /

We have all been dying to know who the buyers are for the twenty-first floor over at the Residences at the Ritz Carlton, Tower I. You will recall that I have been quite ga-ga over this high profile penthouse pad, which Tim created by knitting together two huge penthouse condos under the exquisite direction of the beautiful Sofia Joelsson, of SoJo Design, a Miami-based interior designer who does a great deal of design work chez Headington. The unit was originally listed for $14 million, not including the art. Then, a few weeks ago, the price was lowered to a smidgen under ten million and voila, a buyer appeared, brought in by our newest celebrity Dallas agent, Victoria Barr de Quinones, Ebby Halliday Preston Center office.