Candy Evans

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

Dallas Real Estate News & Views: What Do We Think About Partial Tear Downs?

By Candy Evans / July 8, 2011 /

Can you remodel a ranch and make it a liveable, sellable home? So there is this house on Northaven. I called the builder a few weeks ago and he told me he buys homes like this 1950’s ranch and rather than tear down the whole house, he preserves as much as he can and remodels…

We Like to Share: Second Homes Need a Lot of Love From Designers at the Dallas-Fort Worth Design Guide!

By Candy Evans / July 7, 2011 /

We need the help of interior designers to keep us on the straight and narrow. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it twice: interior designers SAVE YOU MONEY. I think we could have educated Jon & Kate’s brood with all the money I wasted buying furniture and objets d’art I did not need that…

We Like to Share: Second Homes Need a Lot of Love From Designers at the Dallas-Fort Worth Design Guide!

By Candy Evans / July 7, 2011 /

We need the help of interior designers to keep us on the straight and narrow. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it twice: interior designers SAVE YOU MONEY. I think we could have educated Jon & Kate’s brood with all the money I wasted buying furniture and objets d’art I did not need and…

How Second Homes Have Babies : The Palms Private Residence Club Joins 3RD Home

By Candy Evans / July 7, 2011 /

They procreate like this: The Palms Private Residence Club in Playa Flamingo, Costa Rica, has signed a sponsorship agreement with the premier international second home exchange firm, 3RD HOME, that enables Palms owners (or buyers) to exchange their properties with other second (and third, and fourth) homeowners throughout the world. That opens second home stay options up…

Ken Maxwell’s Exposition Park Home Lit Up Like the Fourth of July…

By Candy Evans / July 7, 2011 /

We had a blast, as usual, at my friend Ken Maxwell’s fun Fourth of July celebration. He’s the creative director for the Dallas office of Weber Shandwick, a mega public relations firm. And when it came to decorating his home, Ken took a cue from Frank Sinatra and did it “his way”. The Dallas Morning…