Candy Evans

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

Dallas Realtor Extraordinaire Clay Stapp Rep’ed Buyer of Champ d’Or: Buyer is Dallas Family with International Ties

By Candy Evans / April 2, 2012 /

Later today, the venerable PR firm of Rubenstein Public Relations will release this press release with more details, the official details, of Friday’s sale of Champ d’Or. As I told you yesterday, we know Champ was swooped up by a Dallas family with international ties (read: jet setters) and I have just learned that Clay Stapp was…

Cities With the Most Construction in the USA No Duh: Three of the Top 20 Are in Texas

By Candy Evans / April 2, 2012 /

This is one of those “Thank God we live in Texas” days. Yep, ran across this nugget from Forbes.com on the cities with the most construction: if construction starts are a leading economic indicator, then we are in hog heaven. Three Texas metros are leading as far as construction starts and made it on the top…

Breaking Dallas Real Estate News: We Have A New Hot Property – Joanna!

By Candy Evans / April 2, 2012 /

Meet Joanna England: blogger, writer and brand-spanking-new mom. Get used to seeing her name and byline here on CandysDirt.com, because this gal knows a thingee or two about real estate, is a seasoned blogger and writer (Bubble Life, People Newspapers, Dallas Morning News), and will be contributing to this blog daily. As you know, there are a million real estate stories in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, and I cannot cover all of them.

Champ d’Or Snapped Up by a Family, Sellers Very Pleased With Sale

By Candy Evans / April 1, 2012 /

“Sellers very pleased with sale” — boy if that isn’t the understatement of the century! Details of Friday’s sale of Champ d’Or by auction up in Denton are eeking out. I got word from Laura Brady with Concierge Auctions that the buyers are definitely a family who apparently plans to live in the 40,000 square…

Open House Extravaganza: Here’s Where You Should Be Today, 6822 Mimosa. Basically Buy Greece for $1 Million +

By Candy Evans / April 1, 2012 /

This young lovely is for the Mediterranean lover in you. (And SUCH a bargain!) 5158 square feet primed and ready for a nice, big family, she was built in 2001 by Geoffrey Grant, who also builds in The Creeks of Preston Hollow, has a red tile roof and a brick driveway. Smooth limestone floors everywhere keep this home cool during…