Candy Evans

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

Fess Up Right Now: Have You Ever Owned a Gold Swan Faucet? If So, You Will Love This House…

By Candy Evans / April 5, 2012 /

If I fib, my daughter usually rats me out so yes, I confess, had a gold swan faucet in our Park Lane house all through the 1990’s. There — I do feel better. It was in my master bath tub. The faucets were goobly gah gold, too. They came with the house– OK, it’s Lent. I lied. I paid good, hard money for them and had them installed. Jeeze, is this confession or something?

Thursday Three Hundred: Hill Haven MidMod with One Story Deed Restrictions Needs Some TLC But Heck, Who Doesn’t?

By Candy Evans / April 5, 2012 /

I cannot believe there is a home right smack near Jan-Mar for less than half a million. This one is actually, are you ready, only $350,000! Listen up people: $141 a square foot! You get three bedrooms, two full baths, three living areas, two dining areas in a circa 1954 that screams mid-century modern from Hillcrest…

Keller Williams Dallas City Center To End Keller Williams Affiliation – Yeah

By Candy Evans / April 4, 2012 /

by Karen Eubank The agents at Keller Williams City Center don’t have a date yet, but they will soon have a new brokerage identity. The office is de-franchising from Keller Williams and launching as independent agents under a new brokerage, ending a loooong  (11 year) KW affiliation. They have moved from their Mockingbird Station office where they parked…

Clay Stapp Talks About the Most Most Amazing Sale of His Career: How He Brought a Buyer to Champ d’Or — Behind the Sale

By Candy Evans / April 4, 2012 /

“Almost ten years to sell the place, it sold at auction in about ten minutes.” I just had to talk to him, touch him, be in his presence! And when I asked Clay Stapp if last weekend’s sale of Champ d’Or, that 40,000 square foot mega giant up in Hickory Creek, wasn’t by far the most amazing…

David Griffin + Keith Cox: Watch Out, Oak Cliff/Bishop Arts: The Force is WITH YOU!

By Candy Evans / April 4, 2012 /

I will just lay it right out: David Griffin and Keith Cox are two of my most favorite people in the world. David and I go way back to when he was marketing the W Residences — God, that makes me feel old! (But David looks so young!) He has always, always been bullish on downtown Dallas real estate and property