Candy Evans

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

Pebble Beach Celebrity Car Auction Fetches More than $60 Million in Second Home Nirvana Location

By Candy Evans / August 22, 2012 /

Last year, about this time, I was in Pebble Beach at the venerable Concours d’Elegance which takes place in the center of second home nirvana: Pebble Beach and Carmel. Family matters kept me away this year, but I hear the crowd was even bigger, better and richer this year: Jay Leno’s Fiat 500 Prima Edizione sold for 10…

Are These Dead Fish in Highland Park Collateral Damage from the West Nile Virus Spraying?

By Candy Evans / August 21, 2012 /

Hundreds of dead fish in Highland Park have washed up near Turtle Creek and some folks are connecting the dead fish to Dallas County’s spraying efforts last week to fight West Nile Virus.

But Sheri Brown at the Highland Park Town Hall says it has nada to do with the spraying, but was caused by the fierce storm we had on Saturday evening, which resulted in electrical outages, flash-flooding, and now, apparently, dead fish.

Sliders of Blue: Would You Put a Private Water Park in Your Backyard?

By Candy Evans / August 21, 2012 /

Is this the private Dallas water park that braces built? And would you even consider putting in a water park in a private home? Texas Drills Down on Medicaid Dental Fraud” (sub. rec.) is a headline in today’s Wall Street Journal. What do they mean by that? Possibly the business practices of people like Richard Malouf who is…

Water Park Slides Have Arrived at the Malouf Manse on Strait Lane & World Now Knows We Are Serious About Medicaid Dental Fraud in Texas

By Candy Evans / August 20, 2012 /

“Texas Drills Down on Medicaid Dental Fraud” (sub. rec.) is the headline in today’s Wall Street Journal. What do they mean by that? Why, maybe a blast from the past biz practices of people like Richard Malouf who is putting in a WaterPark that one reader thinks we ought to christen “WaterPik Park” over on Strait…

Will the Aerial Spraying of Dallas for West Nile Affect our Real Estate Market?

By Candy Evans / August 17, 2012 /

We are a buggy city, buggier this year than normal. Hence for the first time in 45 years, the City of Dallas just fogged  major parts of the city in an airplane that took off from Dallas’ Executive field in Oak Cliff. I am in North Dallas and we are now about three hours into…