Candy Evans

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

Tuesday Two Hundred: Ah, It’s Tax Day. Let’s Try $155,000 With a Pool…

By Candy Evans / April 17, 2012 /

I know how poor you are feeling right about now. Have you sent in your check to Uncle Sam? Maybe you are reading this on your phone or ipad while waiting in line at the Post Office, where I was yesterday. (I wonder what happens when you bounce a check to the IRS… ) Well, I am feeling poor today, so I scoured for a home where I can move once they clear our bank account and I found this at 2005 St. Francis off Ferguson. (An Ed Murchison listing, who I sometimes refer to as Ed Cook!) Hot damn, this home is adorable and even has a pool. Plus, you are going to eat up (as well as in) that aqua kitchen. Modern

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DFW Real Estate Status Update on First Quarter 2012: Prognosis Positive, Tread Lightly

By Candy Evans / April 17, 2012 /

I was treated to Allie Beth Allman’s Monday morning meeting on Monday, and boy, what a treat. Chock full of valuable information — my notebook and head came home loaded. Not one, but two guest speakers: David Fair, and Joseph Pitchford, senior vice president Crescent Real Estate Equities, LLC, aka the folks who own the Residences at…

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Andrea Gonzaba Joins Clay Stapp and Blogs for Us About Apartment Rentals: Yep, She’s a Player

By Candy Evans / April 17, 2012 /

Andrea Gonzaba. She is adorable. She also just joined Clay Stapp & Company who is, as you know, one of the hottest real estate brokers in town, and I don’t mean just because he’s cute. Clay brought the buyer to Champ d’Or at the March 30 auction, as you know, raising the most well-Botoxed brows…

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Richard Malouf Is Knitting Together a 30,000 Square Foot Something Over on Strait Lane, and He Needs Mega Juice

By Candy Evans / April 16, 2012 /

Do you recall the saga of Dr. Richard J. Malouf, who apparently built quite a fortune and then some through Medicaid orthodontics? For one, he is getting closer to completing the 30,000-square-foot earth-friendly compound he is constructing over on Strait Lane. Compound, hell, it’s an ENVIRONMENT with the following equation: 10711 Strait + 10674 Strait = one big mama…

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Monday Morning Millionaire: In an English Garden, Yes, But Walkable in Park Cities

By Candy Evans / April 16, 2012 /

Ohhh, this home. I am going to get you in trouble because you are going to be looking at these photos all day long, breathing in the flowers in that exquisite garden. I have known this home a long time, been in it, in fact, as a guest. 3316 Harvard is really one of the most charming, perfect cottages in Dallas: character, warmth plus bountiful gardens.

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