Candy Evans

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

Champ d’Or Chalked Up Mega Pageviews on MSNBC.COM Today

By Candy Evans / March 21, 2012 /

This is why auctions can be so darn effective: Champ d’Or is getting a Texas-sized dose of publicity not just here but all over the world now. I shot a video for Zillow there last week, and now it’s gone plumb viral. Which means, lots of hits to our site today. I thought this comment was…

Tuesday Two Hundred: Gated Golf Course Home Has Designer Touches, Even a Playhouse – $259,000 – Only One “Problem”…

By Candy Evans / March 20, 2012 /

I think I’m going to challenge Barbara Corcoran to top this one. Let me tell you, there is no way. I emailed this home to my daughter and she was hooked! This is a new home at 9077 Cotton Village Drive, just built in 2006, with three bedrooms, two and a half baths, upstairs gameroom, great granite and stainless kitchen, open floor plan and high ceilings! Not only is it fresh, saucy and beautiful, it’s in a gated community on a golf course and is a golf lovers dream!

Aggressive Sales: Preston Hollow Resident Stabbed by Door-To-Door Magazine Solicitor

By Candy Evans / March 20, 2012 /

  Those door-to-door magazine solicitors are getting way more aggressive — be careful! A magazine solicitor stabbed a 21-year old Preston Hollow resident and WFAA-TV has all the deets: the 21 year old answered the door, and the male solicitor babbled about needing money for an organization: “He came up and was very inarticulate, and said some…

Would You Trade Your Suburban Home to Live Right Smack in Dallas — Like, in Oak Cliff?

By Candy Evans / March 19, 2012 /

I need to get in touch with assistant city manager Joey Zapata and check out his new digs in Oak Cliff. Zapata moved out of a cush suburban home and into the city, buying a 1949 vintage home in El Tivoli Place in North Oak Cliff. I read his guest column last week in the City of…

Monday Morning Millionaire: It’s The Home Alone House, Dallas-Style on Royal Lane for $1.6

By Candy Evans / March 19, 2012 /

I’ll be honest: I about fainted when I saw the price on this stately, New England-y Georgian home at 4815 Royal Lane. It’s kind of the Dallas version of the Home Alone house, but bigger and better.  Yes, I know it’s on Royal Lane and homes on busy streets generally fetch less than those on quieter…