Candy Evans

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

Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom Now Have a Second Home In Dallas. Should You?

By Candy Evans / December 28, 2011 /

NOW it’s a done deal. December 23 is the day Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom executed the lease on Unit 2604 over at the W, the former bachelor pad of Mack Hicks, son of former Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks. Agents Rogers Healy and Steve Rigely got in a lot of camera time with Khloe &…

Happy Holi-daze From Everyone at SecondShelters.com!

By Candy Evans / December 28, 2011 /

We hope you are safely on your way to your favorite second home with all the family in tow. Enjoy a wonderful, sparkling holiday and we’ll be back next week with more vacation home properties and ideas. Happy Holidays!

Looks Like The Stoneleigh Residences Are Really Going to Get Going in January. Really. Truly. Finally.

By Candy Evans / December 28, 2011 /

I had to laugh when Steve Brown wrote about the Stoneleigh last week right before Christmas. “More than three years after work stopped on the project,” he said, “the owners of the partly built Stoneleigh condominium tower in Uptown are planning to restart construction soon.” Really? See this photo? I took it last September. When…

S&P/Case-Shiller’s .01% Decline For Dallas Real Estate Values Might Make You Over-Imbibe on New Years Eve. It Shouldn’t

By Candy Evans / December 28, 2011 /

Our glorious fourth quarter of 2011 showed more national declines in home prices. Data through October 2011 showed decreases of 1.1% and 1.2% for the 10- and 20-City Composites in October vs. September. Nineteen of the 20 cities covered by the indices also saw home prices decrease over the month, even San Francisco! Grrrrreat. “There…

Tuesday Two Hundred: 2450 Mercifully Gorgeous Square Feet on Mercer, Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / December 27, 2011 /

  I am being sooo lazy this week, but I could not stay away from the keyboard when I saw this home. Oh. My. God. I honestly almost called Vicki White at Keller Williams to tell her she had a typo on the price — but no! This is the real deal: 2550 beautiful and…