Candy Evans

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

Photos of Troy Aikman’s Beautiful Home Are Up: The Most Expensive Real Estate Listing in Dallas

By Candy Evans / May 26, 2011 /

We might as well just call this “Troy Week” here on Second Shelters. Mother Nature finally cooperated long enough for Allie Beth Allman to get some photos up on her website of this fabulous home. After reading her description, I learned something new:there are only five homesites on the Aikman block: “A rare reality is…

Gary Vaynerchuk in Big D: TYE Down DFW 2011 & Inbound Marketing. All of Two Realtors There

By Candy Evans / May 26, 2011 /

New York Times best-selling author, speaker, marketer and motivator Gary Vaynerchuk was in town tonight at what I called a mini-Inman Connect — a digital/tech/social marketing/get with it communications conference at the Lakewood Theater Wednesday evening. Gary is so cool and what I love best about him is that I cannot describe him easily in…

Gary Vaynerchuk in Big D: TYE Down DFW 2011 & Inbound Marketing. All of Two Realtors There

By Candy Evans / May 26, 2011 /

New York Times best-selling author, speaker, marketer and motivator Gary Vaynerchuk was in town tonight at what I called a mini-Inman Connect — a digital/tech/social marketing/get with it communications conference at the Lakewood Theater Wednesday evening. Gary is so cool and what I love best about him is that I cannot describe him easily in…

The Tax Doctor Is In: What Else Can You Use Besides Comps?

By Candy Evans / May 26, 2011 /

Dear Tax Doctor: What are the typical arguments that the city makes for raising the value of the improvement when there have been no upgrades to the property since the previous evaluation?¬† Also, what are the best counters to the city arguments other than comps.¬† Thank you. Christopher McGuire, Vice President, Briggs Freeman | Sotheby’s…

Dallas Fort Worth Among Most-Searched, Least Declining Real Estate Markets in U.S. Breathe Easier!

By Candy Evans / May 25, 2011 /

Realtor.com released the top metro areas for real estate search — that is, the places where more people are looking to buy homes, and guess who made it big on the list? Dallas. Metro areas in the South and West dominated the list of the 10 most-searched real estate markets for the month of April,…