Candy Evans

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

Case-Shiller Says Home Prices Are Singing 2003 — Dallas Hanging Steady, Acting More Like 2008

By Candy Evans / September 26, 2012 /

In the eyes of the latest S&P/Case-Shiller housing report, which indexes existing (not new) home sales in 20 major U.S. cities, it’s 2003 when it comes to housing prices. That’s good news. We are told the average U.S. home price in July rose 1.6%, this compared to the previous month, marking the third straight month that…

Nebraska Furniture Mart To Build Largest Home Everything Store in U.S. in North Texas… With a Background Story that Sounds a Lot Like Ebby Halliday

By Candy Evans / September 25, 2012 /

This is Bob Batt, the Executive Vice President of the Nebraska Furniture Mart which broke ground on the largest home furnishings store not just in Texas but the USA — and probably, the world — this morning in The Colony, along the southern border of State Highway 121. The store won’t be selling us any…

Tune in to Luxury Dallas TV Friday Morning at 10 a.m. to See Inside Three Fabulous Dallas Estates! Who Needs Shades of Gray…

By Candy Evans / September 21, 2012 /

Oh this is going to be fun: a show on TXA 21 airs Friday morning at 10:00 a.m. and I shot the video last Friday, inside three gorgeous Dallas to-die-for estates: 4724 Saint Johns, 9008 Briarwood, and the Strait Lane estate of Phil Romano. Luxury Dallas TV is a weekly television magazine showcasing all that is…

Meantime, Sales Price on Historic Mt. Vernon Estate Home Lowered $5 Million Dollars…

By Candy Evans / September 20, 2012 /

I guess John and Teresa Amend are really getting serious about selling H.L. Hunt’s old estate on the banks of White Rock Lake. I have always adored this home, and maybe if I play the Lotto and they lower the price a few more times, I can actually buy it. Because buy it I would…

Farmers Branch Gets a Second Chance on that “Don’t Rent to Illegals” Ban… Maybe

By Candy Evans / September 20, 2012 /

No kidding, I thought this case was zipped. Or rather, zapped. Farmer’s Branch has had a long, expensive fight to keep undocumented immigrants from renting homes in the town just north of LBJ. Of course, with all the construction on LBJ, one wonders how they have any tenants at all. Four years ago Farmers Branch was sued…