Candy Evans

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

Candy’s Picks for Today’s Daybreak Segment on Channel 8: Collin County

By Candy Evans / July 13, 2012 /

By now you probably know that I do a couple of real estate reports on Daybreak with Ron Corning, at 6:30 a.m. about twice monthly. Usually I get the houses I feature up as soon as I get back to my desk from Victory, but today was a busy day in the world of real…

Richard Malouf’s Sports Environment: Water World on Strait Lane

By Candy Evans / July 12, 2012 /

Update: Byron Harris from WFAA-TV Channel 8 interviewed me this afterboon at the Malouf’s — tune in at 10pm for some groovy aerials and more pics!

Here’s what the Malouf’s have in store for the back yard of what was once 10674 Strait Lane: Hurricane Harbor. There will be a really, really deep pool, a Lazy River, and three water slides 30 to 35 feet tall, some of which were originally to be accessible from and twist through the upstairs windows of the Sports Complex. Wheeee!

The Environment Richard Malouf is Building Over on Strait Lane: A Family Sports World

By Candy Evans / July 12, 2012 /

The Malouf’s bought 10711 Strait Lane four years ago from Comer Cottrell, who had build the house but not completed it. When they got it, the inside was just sheet rock. 15,000 square feet of sheet rock plus a cabana. He hired professional designers to finish it out beautifully, elegantly, and the home was a…

Just What Is Richard Malouf Building There in His Backyard Over on Strait Lane? Wet N’ Wild!

By Candy Evans / July 12, 2012 /

Richard Malouf, the Medicaid-pediatric-dentist-turned-billionaire, is back in the news. In late June, Byron Harris at Channel 8 reported that his aggressive, year-long investigation on WFAA into questionable Medicaid dental payments at Malouf’s pediatric dental clinics– Texas spent more on pediatric Medicaid braces than the rest of the country put together — stirred up the Texas…

Highland Park Morning Family Tragedy May Have Been Suicide

By Candy Evans / July 11, 2012 /

Update: It was revealed that John Steele was taking Ambien for sleeplessness, a powerful drug that’s been linked to strange behaviors while the patient is asleep but acting in a wake state. A tragically sad and disturbing story in the 3200 block of Cornell Avenue in Highland Park, where bystanders and police are now saying…