Candy Evans

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

Maybe Dallas Will Get a St. Regis Hotel After All…

By Candy Evans / January 12, 2012 /

Turtle Creek Village has new owners who have purchased the property out of debt. Those new owners would be Dallas-based Lone Star Fund, a  local investment fund that has the Midas touch when it comes to buying real estate for pennies on the dollar. Last August, while we were cooking, Lone Star Funds snapped up…

What’s Going On Over at 3816 Turtle Creek? Sizzle & Once Again, Splish Splash in the Foyer

By Candy Evans / January 11, 2012 /

3816 Turtle Creek is now owned by the beautiful Leigh Bailey. Everyone knew it as the “Party House” before she bought it, mostly because the owner was a bachelor who liked to have fun. The home’s history is like writing a book on Dallas real estate agents: absolutely everyone in town had the listing. Built on .7…

Staging Your Home To Sell: Don’t Let The Furniture Match the Art

By Candy Evans / January 11, 2012 /

You’ve heard this before: never buy your art to match the sofa. True, but if you are seeking some beautiful, reasonably-priced art to stage a listing or your own home, what if there is no sofa to NOT match? Hop on over to Gallery Interiors HUGE new art sale. Owner Mark Lafferty has gotten in a…

This Home Needs a New Kitchen STAT: $695K in University Park but With Your Grandmothers’ Formica

By Candy Evans / January 11, 2012 /

I guess the good news is this house at 2824 Stanford gets you in the Park Cities for under $700,000 — barely. You are off Boedecker on a nice street — Stanford — and you have a three bedroom, two bath house. 2333 square feet and a 65 by 140 foot lot. All groovy. But…

When They Are Not at the W, Here’s Khloe and Lamar’s Starter Home in LA

By Candy Evans / January 11, 2012 /

According to my friend Mama at the Real Estalker, Khloe and Lamar have a really nice crib back in LA. In fact, their neighborhood, Tarzana, reminds me of our Vaquero. They have an 8,347 square foot “mock-Med (mc)mansion in a gated enclave in hot as Hades”, says Mama. It’s also very suburban, gated, and filled with…