Candy Evans

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

Broker Babble: What’s YOUR Definition of Tender Loving Care? Dallas Real Estate Noose…

By Candy Evans / July 9, 2012 /

God, this place is cheap: $29,500 for a condo over in Vickery/Meadows, south of Walnut Hill Lane. 5815 Phoenix Drive, two bedrooms, two baths, no pool but a private hot tub!!! (I am so psyched!!!) HOA dues are $280 a month (WTF?)  1175 square feet at 5815 Phoenix Drive. It’s very close to Presby and…

Building With the Boys: The First Big Huge Hairy Decision — Who Is Going to BUILD This Sucker?

By Candy Evans / July 9, 2012 /

When we first met Candy in 2009, our address was on undeniably emasculating Princess Lane. (She loved it!) The place had just sold, and we were excited about the endless opportunities for the upcoming mid-century modern project under contract on Bobbitt Drive. (We also suffered her endless jokes about Lorena. Bobbit. As in cut off…

A Week of Fireworks — In the Dallas Home Building Real Estate Market, That Is

By Candy Evans / July 6, 2012 /

During the Real Estate bubble, Dallas Realtor extraordinaire Della Lively told me every home builder in town was drinking champagne. Then the bubble burst, and now, with the exception of a very few, they can barely afford beer. The real estate downturn sliced and diced home starts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area by more than…

El Corazon de Santa Fe Under Fairmont Management: Santa Fe Vacation Home Ownership In the $100,000’s

By Candy Evans / July 6, 2012 /

Faithful readers may recall when I wrote about a beautiful fractional ownership property in the heart, and I do mean the heart, of Santa Fe called El Corazon de Santa Fe. It was fabulous then, and it is even more fabulous now! The property has been renamed “Fairmont Heritage Place, El Corazon de Santa Fe”. El…

OMG It’s a Shard Show: Renzo Piano’s Newest Skyscraper Opens in London With a LASER LIGHT SHOW!

By Candy Evans / July 6, 2012 /

You’ve just got to see this. One cannot help but think that perhaps, given the real estate reflection battle here in Dallas between the Renzo Piano-designed Nasher and Museum Tower and all the media banter about Museum Tower being a giant laser to the Nasher, that it  inspired the idea for this laser light show…