Candy Evans

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

Dallas Real Estate News: Case Shiller Says the Sky is No Longer Falling. Well, Not in Dallas!

By Candy Evans / April 28, 2011 /

I’m not going to say Dallas Real Estate is a hoppin’, but we are really hanging in there. Really. As I mentioned yesterday, I was in Southlake on Saturday, and I went to that adorable Southlake Town Center. Met a cute couple who were building a home in Colleyville because they had just sold their…

Dallas Real Estate Financing: What Are We Going To Do About Mortgages for the Self-Employed?

By Candy Evans / April 28, 2011 /

Update to the mortgage story. As I said earlier, mortgage broker Ron Schulz told me over the weekend that the biggest hurdle in mortgage financing now is finding mortgage loans for the self-employed. Those deals are near impossible because most self-employed work off K-1 income to control/limit taxes so when they go to get a…

Dallas Real Estate News: You Can Get a Mortgage if You Have a W-2

By Candy Evans / April 27, 2011 /

I was in Southlake over the weekend, and on radio 1160 am with renown mortgage broker Ron Schultz. He said what I’ve written now about a hundred times: there are loans out there for folks with good credit scores and W-2s. The biggest problem is finding mortgage loans for the self-employed. Those deals are near…

Hot Dallas Real Estate News: Major Price Slashing — and Some Sales ! — at the Palomar

By Candy Evans / April 27, 2011 /

You do recall the Residences at Palomar, that handsome high rise at the corner of Mockingbird and Central attached to the Hotel Palomar that broke ground in 2005 and has been, shall we say, somewhat market challenged? Here’s what we were told back in the day: Twenty-five percent of the units were sold within the…

Prince William and Kate Ought to be Castle Shopping in Dallas: Talk About MANSION REDUCTIONS!

By Candy Evans / April 25, 2011 /

By now we know that William and Kate are not castle shopping because they have a ready-made love nest to move into: Clarence House. According to Curbed, it’s worth $76.68 million and 343 times the cost of the average newlywed starter home. Eventually, he’ll move Kate into Buckingham Palace, worth $1.6 billion and the world’s…