Candy Evans

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

Your Medicaid Dollars at Work on Strait Lane, Continued: Is Texas Hedge Fund Heaven?

By Candy Evans / June 9, 2011 /

Remember how I told you about the Malouf’s amazing real estate acquisitions on Strait Lane? Now, I’m not judging here. For all we know, Dr. and Mrs. Malouf — he’s a dentist — could have inherited a bucketload of money or just belong to the Lucky Sperm Club. Well, maybe. Or not. Wednesday night WFAA’s…

Dallas Area AVERAGE Home Prices Up, Purchases Down: Not Quite the Doom & Gloom Show!

By Candy Evans / June 9, 2011 /

Read Steve Brown and you might say what someone from last month’s ULI Conference told me they felt like doing after the opening session: committing suicide. Steve says north Texas pre-owned home purchases were down 15 percent in May — the 12th consecutive month of declines, a solid year of flushing. Real estate agents last…

Dallas Area AVERAGE Home Prices Up, Purchases Down: Not Quite the Doom & Gloom Show!

By Candy Evans / June 9, 2011 /

Read Steve Brown and you might say what someone from last month’s ULI Conference told me they felt like doing after the opening session: committing suicide. Steve says north Texas pre-owned home purchases were down 15 percent in May ‚Äî the 12th consecutive month of declines, a solid year of flushing. Real estate agents last…

How to Jazz Up Your Next Open House: Buy a Triceratops?

By Candy Evans / June 8, 2011 /

I thought it was bad when I had a shrunken head in my house. But there’s probably one thing worse than a shrunken head in your house: the 21-foot-long boney remains of a flesh-eating dinosaur. On Sunday, Heritage Auction Gallery –third largest auction house in the country and rising — is offering what is probably…

Your Medicaid Tax Dollars at Work Over on Strait Lane? Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / June 7, 2011 /

I’m not going to do too much work here, going to defer to Byron Harris over at WFAA-TV Channel 8 to do most of the heavy lifting. Keep your eyes peeled to him for a report coming up involving these properties. My eyes are permanently peeled to Dallas real estate. In March, I was alerted…