Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
This is one of the sweetest emails I have received in ages: Dear Candy, Read ALL your blogs and love them. Question: I am a widower who has fallen in love with a beautiful woman in Austin who has been single for years. I live in Park City, Utah. Both our homes are on the…
I was in Carmel last week, and I saw The Butterfly House, probably the most amazing beach house in the world. And guess what, it’s on the market! The Butterfly House is one of only five or six truly beach-front properties in Carmel and on beautiful Scenic Drive. (I’m posting way more from Carmel and Pebble Beach, so…
This is the week before Labor Day, and starting today we will be hit with all kinds of national economic news that might make us want to get out of town to our second homes sooner rather than later. (And start drinking.) Now I have some GOOD real estate news — a mega mega sale…
VERY interesting story here from the National Association of Home Builders that tells us where most of the second homes in the United States are located. There are 6.9 million housing units that qualify as second homes — that’s about 5% of all the U.S. housing units. There are 26 counties where at least HALF…
Continuing the story I posted earlier on the proliferation of rentals in Dallas, I finally had time to check MLS stats and was blown away. Unless my fingers screwed up, I found that for first quarter 2011 there were 12,341 home sales in Dallas — single family plus condos — and in that same time…
