Candy Evans

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

One Arts Plaza Gets Tuesday Night Design Fever and a Flair for the Flair

By Candy Evans / November 14, 2011 /

Gonzalo Bueno’s Living Room extraordinaire By now any agent with half a brain knows that to market a high end downtown condo unit, they need to bring in flair. As in, designer flair. Let’s see, we have the Showcase Residences at the Ritz Carlton which have each a Carlton Varney, Laura Hunt, Barry Williams, Ann Sutherland…

Monday Afternoon Millionaire: A Mid Century Mod That Is Not Your Usual North Dallas Ranch… Perfect Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / November 14, 2011 /

Sorry for the delay, between T.O. and Kwame Kilpatrick, I’ve had my hands full. You know that location is the primary corollary of real estate, right? You know you can change almost anything with paint, hammers, nails, sheetrock, fabric, even tarps. So what if you got a home that was not just purely, sheerly orgasmic but also located…

Former Detroit Mayor Does His Part to Keep Dallas Rental Real Estate Hopping, but is it On Taxpayer’s Dime?

By Candy Evans / November 14, 2011 /

Remember former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick  — he’s the one who pleaded guilty in 2008 to obstruction of justice charges, something to do with lying about the fact he was having an affair with a staffer, something about sexting — and then got five years in the slammer for violating terms of his probation? He has been gracing North…

Kwame Kilpatrick Keeps Up DFW Rental Market, Moving To a Bigger, Better Grand Prairie Pad — Detroit Asks Who’s Footing The Bill?

By Candy Evans / November 14, 2011 /

Remember former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick  — he’s the one who pleaded guilty in 2008 to obstruction of justice charges, something to do with lying about the fact he was having an affair with a staffer, something about sexting — and then got five years in the slammer for violating terms of his probation? He has been gracing North…

Is Dallas Becoming a Second Home Haven for Foreigners?

By Candy Evans / November 14, 2011 /

Not as much as Miami, where 60% of home sales now are pure, cold cash, much of it foreign.