Candy Evans

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

Post Election Four More Years House P: Frisco, Four Bedrooms, Fabulous, $419,700

By Candy Evans / November 7, 2012 /

We get four more years of President Obama, so in celebration, I pulled this four-bedroom, 4848 square foot home in Hunters Creek in Frisco for your post-election viewing comfort. Did you get that connection there, 4848 square feet? First of all, this home is one of the most attractive Tudor mini mansions I have seen…

I Guarantee it: Museum Tower is Making Folks a Deal They Cannot Refuse…

By Candy Evans / November 6, 2012 /

Update: Sales at The House by Phillipe Starck were at 24 of 133 units in June, when the new lease-purchase program was offered. That’s 24 sales since 2007, probably a few more since the LP program got started. So if MT has already sold 15 units and the thing isn’t even yet complete, not too…

Everyone Loves Lakewood and Lakewood Schools: I Have Free Tickets to Lakewood’s Tour of Homes This Weekend…

By Candy Evans / November 6, 2012 /

Get them while they are HOT! I’ve got tickets in my hot envelope-holding hand for this weekend’s Lakewood Home Tour featuring six Lakewood homes, AND J.L. Long Middle School, the first non-residence featured on the tour since its inception. Haven’t you ever thought you might want to LIVE in a school? In London, people are…

Monday Morning Millionaire From Hawaii, With Love: I Found Amazing House P. in Hawaii

By Candy Evans / November 6, 2012 /

We just returned from a glorious ten days in Hawaii, island hopping from The Big Island to Honolulu and, finally, Maui. We survived a tsunami, my first! I’m still on Hawaiian time and mixing Mai Tais. As you know, Hawaii is second home nirvana for the wealthiest of the wealthy. Last week, I got to…

Dallas Homeowner Researches His Home’s Design Past, and Finds Architect Neal Lacey

By Candy Evans / November 5, 2012 /

A CandysDirt.com Guest Post by the wonderful Pete Peabody When my family purchased a North Dallas home built in 1967, we had little time for research. Everything happened in about three weeks. Our day-to-day life with 2 children under age 3 now included packing up a three-story Uptown area townhouse, schlepping everything up the Tollway…