Candy Evans

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

Mirror Mirror on the Wall: How To Snag the Very Best Mortgage Rate of Them All

By Candy Evans / May 8, 2012 /

Sponsored guest post by Jeanne Smith, Guardian Mortgage Company We all know interest rates are at record lows, we are beaten with this news every time we turn on the news. I mean, great rates are just a click away, right? Wrong! If you are basing your idea of the “best” mortgage rate on the rates…

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Judge Rules Pilar Sanders Must Stay 500 Yards Away from Prosper Home: Let’s Go House Hunting for Pilar

By Candy Evans / May 8, 2012 /

Smart judge: 5000 yards may have been even better, but 500 yards is about a quarter of a mile. Really, I am truly sorry the Sanders are having such a tough time dissolving their marriage. Brings me back to my own parents’ divorce, and very painful memories. I feel for the Sanders children. So let’s…

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Dallas Realtor News: Kucharski Group Joins David Griffin & Company, Virginia Cook’s Luxury Boutique

By Candy Evans / May 7, 2012 /

David’s dream team is growing like hotcakes! Handsome Robert Kucharski, buyer’s agent Paul Kirkpatrick and their assistant Kim Dunbar (a guy) joined forces with David Griffin & Company last week, moving over from Prudential. Robert’s work in Dallas is legendary, particularly in East Dallas and Oak Cliff, where he once listed the Mary Ellen Bentsen…

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U.S. Census Bureau Update: Dallas is Pretty Dense at 1,112 People psm — No Wonder Our Market is Hot!

By Candy Evans / May 7, 2012 /

This is kind of surprising to those of us who think of Dallas as one great big urban sprawl, everyone living on half acre lots or on ranches. We are actually pretty dense and getting more dense. A U.S. Census Bureau report on urban population density shows that the D/FW area’s density of 1,112 people per…

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Swans: Eye Candy or Vicious, Nasty Birds Under all Those Pretty Ruffled Feathers?

By Candy Evans / May 7, 2012 /

It’s May and our market is heating up hot as the parking lots outside Museum Tower. I don’t know how the SPCA might feel about this, especially as it gets hotter, but how about some live “eye candy”, especially if you live near water? Check out the simple iphone video I took at Paigebrooke when we were filming…

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