Candy Evans

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

Monday Morning Millionaire: Fall In Love With Falls Road All Over Again

By Candy Evans / January 30, 2012 /

One of my favorite neighborhoods in Dallas, I used to live about a block from 5549 Falls from 1990 to 2000. This is a very, very smart little nook of Preston Hollow. I say little only because the lots here are hefty one-half acre lots surrounded by sprawling estates of one acre plus. Small only by…

Dallas County Property Taxes Are Due TOMORROW: Are You Paying by Check or Credit Card?

By Candy Evans / January 30, 2012 /

The DCAD website is as slow as molasses today, and I’m on a ten minute hold with the tax office “due to high call volume.” It’s time to pay the property taxes and yes, I waited till the day before the very end. Property taxes are due tomorrow by midnight. I’m curious how many of you…

Tim Headington Unloading a $25 Million Miami Beach Penthouse, the One Right Next Door to Mark Cuban. Champagne, Anyone?

By Candy Evans / January 27, 2012 /

Update: I caught up with the listing agent, Eloy Carmenate , who just happened to be at DFW on his way back to Miami. Wouldn’t you know that he also happens to be a friend of Doris Jacobs, who I just had lunch with today? They worked a deal together on another one of Tim’s…

Friday Four Hundred, For the Modern Tastes: A Tribute to the Tri-Level

By Candy Evans / January 27, 2012 /

There is this young man named Rucker Hill. His mother is Nathan Grace Real Estate dynamo Peggy Hill. Now Rucker is apparently remodeling homes with Rucker Design & Build, and we are so very glad — look at this baby! This is a 1973 era home, and those years are very hot with young buyers, I…

Friday Four Hundred: So Cheap You Can Still Have a Mercedes on Mercedes, Plus a Master Shower Big Enough for Block Parties

By Candy Evans / January 27, 2012 /

I have been test-driving the Mercedes ML and just love it, so I am in an M Streets frame of mind. How could I resist this darling Greenland Hills tudor on one of THEE very best blocks that has a shower big enough for a block party? Built in 1929 but very much updated to the…