Candy Evans

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

Glenn Beck Makes It Official: Fam’s Already On Texas Soil, Sources Say He May Ultimately Build

By Candy Evans / July 11, 2011 /

As we told you here first, former Fox entertainer Glenn Beck confirmed he’s not only moving to Dallas but in fact, the family is already here. (Wonder how it makes the folks in Westlake feel when Beck says he’s moving to “Dallas”?) Robert Wilonsky at The Dallas  Observer also has this fun YouTube video of the…

Robyn Menter Celebrates With Jerry Szor and Loves Second Homes

By Candy Evans / July 11, 2011 /

This is the beautiful Robyn Menter with some friends at her fun birthday bash last week at Jerry Szor Contemporary Jewelry. Come to find out, half the folks in the crowd were talking second homes, maybe because it is so darn hot here in Texas. The couple here bought a lot in Santa Fe about…

Dallas Will Shoot In Dallas: Can Scouting Locations Turn Your Home Into A Moneytree?

By Candy Evans / July 11, 2011 /

Last summer, one of my friends turned her home over to the folks filming “Chase” and got her whole family put up at The Ritz while the cast and crew took over her East Dallas house. They paid handsomely and left behind a patio-full of fresh plants. Now comes word that TNT’s Dallas, based on…

Enamoured on Ervay: Who Says You Can’t Own in Downtown Dallas for Less Than $225,000?

By Candy Evans / July 11, 2011 /

This is one of those rare, one-of-a-kind homes that has been published  and will probably be under contract by the time you read this post. Built in 2007, the creative art-director owners snapped up this newly constructed, loaded, two-bedroom, 1608 square foot two story townhome and immediately set to customizing and re-designing it from the…

Former Dallas Mayor Steve Bartlett’s New Second Home in the Texas Hill Country

By Candy Evans / July 11, 2011 /

Steve Bartlett, remember him? He was on the Dallas City Council from 1977 to 1981, represented some of us in Congress, and is now President and CEO of The Financial Services Roundtable, a lobbying group for several prestigious financial services companies. OMG, politics to lobbying, who’d a thunk it? Membership consists of 100 financial companies including Wells Fargo,…