Candy Evans

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

The Price is Now Right: Troy Aikman Home Listed for $24 Million, Not $27.5

By Candy Evans / May 23, 2011 /

Allie Beth Allman has the website updated. Photos forthcoming.

Breaking Dallas Real Estate News: Aikman House is Listed for $24 Million, NOT $27.5

By Candy Evans / May 23, 2011 /

Troy Aikman’s Dallas real estate just got a whole lot more affordable! Thanks to Alan Peppard, who called Troy over the weekend and spoke with him, and who insisted the price of his Highland Drive home had been entered wrong both in MLS and on Allie Beth Allman’s website as $27.5, The REAL price is…

HGTV’s Vern Yip Loves Second Homes

By Candy Evans / May 23, 2011 /

I caught up with Vern Yip, star of HGTV’s way popular design shows, when he popped in to visit I.O. Metro up near the Dallas Galleria last week. Yip has a new partnership with the Little Rock, Arkansas-based store that offers a wide variety of stylish, sleek but hip, good-looking and comfortable home furnishings at…

Dallas Real Estate Market Report: Facts & Figures, Not Crane Counting

By Candy Evans / May 23, 2011 /

Thinking of buying a house in Dallas but wonder when the sweet spot really hits? Last week, the Financial Times blessed us with a rather simple-minded story on how much better our economy is faring in Dallas. The criteria? A crane-count. (Last time I was in Manhattan, there were a ton of cranes there, too.)…

Dallas Real Estate Market Report: Facts & Figures, Not Crane Counting

By Candy Evans / May 23, 2011 /

Thinking of buying a house in Dallas but wonder when the sweet spot really hits? Last week, the Financial Times blessed us with a rather simple-minded story on how much better our economy is faring in Dallas. The criteria? A crane-count. (Last time I was in Manhattan, there were a ton of cranes there, too.)…