Candy Evans

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

Osama Was Hiding Out In An Upscale Suburban Neighborhood

By Candy Evans / May 2, 2011 /

Here are the Pentagon’s details of the Abbotabad (or is it Abbottabad?) compound where Osama was holed up. His digs were not too shabby — the home is valued at about a million. Note to self: when neighbors start burning their garbage and cover windows with walls, get suspicious. According to The Smoking Gun, Bin…

Osama Bin Laden Killed: Joyous Celebration Over on the Darias With GWB

By Candy Evans / May 2, 2011 /

My sources started notifying me last night that despite the pouring rain, supporters of former President Bush were out at his home, and in front of the gates to Daria, celebrating the capture and death of Osama Bin Laden. They tell me it was a total party atmosphere and even the Secret Service were jubilant.…

Property Tax Appraisals In Your Mailbox but Never Fear: The Tax Doctor Is In!

By Candy Evans / April 30, 2011 /

May means great weather, less sneezing, and, in North Texas Real Estate parlance, time to grit our teeth over home appraisals. Property tax appraisals went out Friday, so this coming week we should be getting the hard, cold news about property taxes. Dallas rates have gone up. Property values have gone down. Will the Appraisal…

Friday After the Royal Wedding House-Candy: VavavaVoom on Van Dyke

By Candy Evans / April 29, 2011 /

Kate and Wills are on their way to wedded bliss, but you could be married to the home of your deepest, wildest mid century modern dreams. First up: o la la location: .66 acres of lush greenery in East Dallas (120 wide by 236 deep) that backs up to a protected land site that will…

Hungry Dallas Realtors, Listen Up: Bluegreen is Better than In N Out Burgers

By Candy Evans / April 29, 2011 /

Well, almost. Bluegreen Communities, a developer of premier, master-planned residential home communities, has launched a new program that pays real estate agents big buckeroos for referrals. Through the Realtor¬Æ Referral program, participating real estate agents who refer buyers to a Bluegreen Communities property earn a full six percent of the resulting sale. Most of the…