Candy Evans

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

Separating Distressed from Non-Distressed Properties, Home Prices Not So Slumpy: Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / August 4, 2011 /

View more videos at: http://www.nbcdfw.com. Here’s part two of my KXAS gig over on Nonstop Nightly. The summer has not been kind to Dallas real estate prices, and now we have a guy in Flower Mound who thinks he can snag a home for a filing fee: welcome to the crazy world of real estate,…

Is The U.S. Economy So Bad We Need To Open Foreign Bank Accounts?

By Candy Evans / August 4, 2011 /

Mark Dotzour of Texas A&M’s Real Estate Center is one of my most trusted real estate resources. Where he goes, I  follow. So I guess I need to head to Canada and open up a bank account. Dotzour told a group of Austin Realtors that the U.S. is in serious economic trouble that is so…

The Temp in Hayden, Idaho is 63 Degrees With a High of 80: Second Home Nirvana

By Candy Evans / August 4, 2011 /

Now here’s a home to cool you off. You’ll be wearing a sweater up here tonight and totally chilling on beautiful, crystal clear Lake Hayden. (You are about 45 miles east of Spokane, but who cares?) This amazing home has 142′ of deepwater frontage on one of the largest lots in an area known as English…

It’s 110 Degrees in Dallas: Why A Second Home Should Be Issued With Every Texas Drivers License

By Candy Evans / August 4, 2011 /

I know Case Shiller is spreading real estate doom and gloom across the state lines, but it’s summer and most of us have vacation on the mind. Here in Dallas, it is about 110 degrees in the shade, and anyone who doesn’t understand why I started a second home blog IN THIS CITY is suffering from heat stroke.…

Trulia CEO Pete Flint House Hunting On Line, in Northern California

By Candy Evans / August 3, 2011 /

I spent a delightful hour last Thursday in San Francisco with Pete Flint, CEO and co-founder of Trulia.com. Please note it was 68 degrees! Every Texan needs a second home here to survive summer! Trulia probably needs no introduction to most of you, but for the uninitiated it is a popular real estate site for searching real…