Candy Evans

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

Deion and Pilar Saga: Anyone Want to Buy a $21 Million, 29,000 Square Foot Home in Prosper? That’s What I Thought

By Candy Evans / May 3, 2012 /

I’m telling you, it’s War of the Roses up there in Prosper. I know the house is technically big enough for two people, but really, in a divorce, even Champ D’Or is too small. These people need to live apart plain and simple. Meantime, Deion is showing off the mansion to ABC-TV. Is he getting…

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Vacation Home Buyers Open Checkbook but Stick Closer to Home

By Candy Evans / May 3, 2012 /

The NAR says vacation home sales are up, but people want to stay within about 360 miles of their primary home. Nothing more than a four hour drive! All the juicy details over on SecondShelters!

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Hot Property: Irmgard Arthur. What’s the Secret to Long Term Relationships: Multiple Houses

By Candy Evans / May 3, 2012 /

It’s kind of like having Kim Dawson as your real estate agent. No kidding, did you know Allie Beth Allman agent Irmgard Arthur used to be an international runway model and opened her own wildly successful school of modeling back in Germany? The classes included ladies self improvement, teenage charm and even exercise classes! She arranged arranged fashion shows and used the…

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Glass in High Rises Problematic Elsewhere: Remember the W in Austin?

By Candy Evans / May 2, 2012 /

It wasn’t reflective heat, but Austin, our oh so ecologically correct sister city to the south, had major problemos last summer with the W Hotel and Residences last summer. The Austin-American Statesman found that Austin “does not insist on the safest kind of architectural glass for guardrails, or specifically, require engineering inspections of exterior balconies on the…

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Dallas Realtor Rich Patterson’s Web Traffic Must Be Killing Him

By Candy Evans / May 2, 2012 /

Because Bloomberg, in this story on the Museum Tower/ Nasher fracas, which actually and interestingly focuses more on the investments, more accurately the risks, taken by the $3.1 billion Dallas Police & Fire Pension System, linked back to the Dave Perry-Miller agent’s website: “With 52 percent of its assets invested in recent years in such alternatives…

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