Candy Evans

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

Monday Morning Millionaire For a Gadzillionaire: Greg Brady’s $7 Million Azure Penthouse gets Picked Up by Forbes

By Candy Evans / May 14, 2012 /

I first wrote about this penthouse-to-end-all-penthouses last summer, when Greg Brady, former president of i-2 Technology once (and probably still) the Mark Zuckerberg of supply-chain management, was offering not just a BMW Z8 in at closing but a week on his yacht, the Noble House, to whoever would hand over eight million dolla — actually,…

Has Anyone Heard From Their Appraisal District? CandysDirt Tax Doctor is IN

By Candy Evans / May 14, 2012 /

Troy Aikman has sold part of his dirt, the pool-cabana-sport court part, and we are hearing tales of multiple offers and homes being snapped up in 4 to 5 days, some not even in MLS. I am posting a home soon built by Mark Danuser that sold as a hip pocket in less than a…

Have You Ever Put Lipstick on a Pig? We Know You Have, So We Want You to be Agent X

By Candy Evans / May 12, 2012 /

Have you turned trash into cash? Have you transformed a stinker into a stunner? Have you overcome impossible odds in dealing with REO properties? If so, you could be Housingwire Magazine’s very first AGENT X, a true REO superstar. And HURRY! Bargain hotel registration ends May 15! We want to hear stories of personal triumph, in…

Troy Aikman Sold Potashnik Lot This Week: Dallas Celebrity Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / May 11, 2012 /

Remember when I told you all last month that, at the suggestion of his agent Allie Beth Allman, Troy decided to sell off the full acre lot next to his Highland Drive home? Then I told you someone was hovering? Well, Alan Peppard is reporting that the lot sold and closed this week.

Friday Five Hundred: Soft Lakewood Contemporary Reduced, for the Good Guys

By Candy Evans / May 11, 2012 /

I have so been meaning to tell you about this Good Guys house, a creek-view oasis! Looks like my timing was perfect, too, because 3914 Frontier was just reduced from $599,999 to $549,000. First of all, I know the owners and they really ought to be written into the contract for an additional price: you…