Candy Evans

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

Friday Four Hundred: Walkable Dallas Darling Is New, Charming, and Oh So Affordable!

By Candy Evans / October 14, 2011 /

This cute home was built in 2001, looks brand new, and is just under 3000 square feet (2974). Three bedrooms, two and a half baths. The floor plan is smooth, rooms spacious and what does every buyer want? Repeat after me: high ceilings! HIGH CEILINGS! Downstairs floors are hardwood, upstairs carpeted to muffle pitter-patter. You can entertain like royalty in the open formal dining, kitchen and breakfast…

Val Kilmer Sells Pecos River Ranch in New Mexico to Texas Gas Executive from Midland

By Candy Evans / October 14, 2011 /

This is a sign the market MUST be coming alive, even in slow as molasses Santa Fe: Val Kilmer has finally sold most of his  5,328-acre Pecos River ranch. The deed transfer was filed Sept. 30 with the San Miguel County Clerk’s Office. Kilmer transferred the bulk of the property to Midland residents Benjamin A. Strickling III and…

Texas Gas Exec Buys Val Kilmer Pecos River Ranch in New Mexico, Once Owned by Greer Garson

By Candy Evans / October 14, 2011 /

This is a sign the market MUST be coming alive, even in slow as molasses Santa Fe: Val Kilmer has finally sold most of his  5,328-acre Pecos River ranch. The deed transfer was filed Sept. 30 with the San Miguel County Clerk’s Office. Kilmer transferred the bulk of the property to Midland residents Benjamin A. Strickling III and…

Big D Real Estate News: Is the Dream of Home Ownership Dying?

By Candy Evans / October 14, 2011 /

Last Thursday, the Census Bureau released 2010 figures indicating that American home ownership is as low as it was during the Great Depression. Last year, the U.S. homeownership rate fell to 65.1 percent last year. And analysts are concerned it may never return to the 2005 to 2006 housing boom peak in which nearly 70 percent of Americans owned their own…

If Your Home Looks Anything Like This, I’ve Got $15,000 Big Ones For You! Turn Your Home Into a Bank — Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / October 13, 2011 /

 This is one tenet the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Dallas folks don’t capiche: the rich always get richer. And when you have a big, beautiful home, you can always find ways to make it be the giant piggie bank we always hope it will be. A major network reality show is seeking a furnished…