Candy Evans

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

Own Chef Extraordinaire Tre Wilcox Cedar Hill Home for Less Than $300K

By Candy Evans / June 7, 2011 /

Bravo’s All-Star Chef¬† Tre Wilcox might be getting tired of moving boxes pretty soon. Seems like just a few months ago he moved from LOFT 610 to The Marquee Grill and Village Theater in Highland Park Village, which has quickly taken over Cafe Pacific as the darling lunch¬† be-seen diner for Park Cities/Preston Hollow Realtors.…

Second Shelters is About to Have a Sibling: Real Gutsy Dallas Real Estate News Coming Up

By Candy Evans / June 6, 2011 /

Counting the Braxton-Hicks contractions over here at SecondShelters.com where we are about to launch a sibling blog called… CandysDirt.com. After much soul-searching, a few wine-laden focus groups, and a whole bunch of email, we have decided to do some organizing. (Ha! Then you get knocked up!) Vacation home news will rule on SecondShelters.com as it…

States With the Most Rooms Per Home: Everything’s Bigger in Texas and UTAH?

By Candy Evans / June 5, 2011 /

Yes, Utah, the Mormon state, home of multiple wives and big families — kidding. (Sort of.) According to recent information released by the U.S. Census Bureau, as reported by U-Haul, Utah properties have the most rooms per home, on average, followed by Texas. The Census Bureau surveyed 915 metropolitan and micropolitan areas and found out…

Sneak Peak Inside HGTV’s Designer Dual’s Hot Texas Showdown: McKinney Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / June 5, 2011 /

If you never believe me when I tell you that life revolves around real estate, you should have been up in McKinney on Saturday afternoon. Home and Garden Television chose Meritage Homes¬† for an episode of it’s new competition reality show, “Showhouse Showdown,”¬† featuring two designers duking it out for the chance to win the…

That Doom & Gloom Housing Data May Not Be So Accurate: Dallas Real Estate News is Only Half as Bad

By Candy Evans / June 4, 2011 /

I am not trying to sell you a house, and I could really care less who buys, who sells, unless it’s my home and my home is not on the market. But I worry about the housing market and the national news about it that keeps dragging us down. This week, the stock market was…