Candy Evans

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

Just What Every Aging Old Couple Needs: A Step Aerobics House

By Candy Evans / March 4, 2025 /

Candy’s House Hunting Adventures: The House That Calisthenics Loves As part of our search for a new home, we toured this one last year during our “let’s move to far North Dallas” move phase, which we have not entirely outgrown. It emerged because (a) my granddaughter is in far North Dallas, and (b) we had…

S&R Development Turning Buyers and Soil in Preston Hollow

By Candy Evans / March 2, 2025 /

Preston Hollow will never be the same when it comes to housing. From Northwest Highway northward to Royal Lane, blocks of quarter to half acre 60’s era homes mirror the frenetic tear-down/build fury of the Park Cities. Even better than the Bubble, Preston Hollow East evokes a countrified, tree-rich atmosphere, and while not as immersive…

So, That Downtown Neiman Marcus Store Debacle Was Not About Real Estate…

By Candy Evans / February 27, 2025 /

The store may not be saved after all? A downtown Dallas consortium got to work Tuesday, trying to save our downtown Neiman’s store after reports that the hold-up was a real estate problem based on land leases (See Preston Center West). But after Slaughter Partners announced they’d donate the leased strip of land to the…

Why I Love This Pink Wall Condo at The Seville: It Belonged to My Beloved Mother

By Candy Evans / February 11, 2025 /

I have been thinking a lot about my late mother lately, not that I ever don’t think about her, but in particular her real estate comings and goings. It’s the goings I’m musing. Like me, my mother got one shot at building what was her dream house, or as close as she could get to…

House Hunting in Preston Hollow: ‘Do I Need This Modern Tudor on Tulip?’

By Candy Evans / January 15, 2025 /

Publisher Candy Evans Is Selling Her Custom Northaven Home; Here’s Her House Hunt This is one of those homes that catches your eye as soon as the alert hits your phone. I mean, just look at it. We are selling our family home of 25 years and I have no earthly idea yet where we…