Candy Evans

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

From Bytes to Bites: In-N-Out Burger to Take Over Comp USA Space on Tollway

By Candy Evans / April 1, 2011 /

I cannot tell you how many times¬† I have been in the (former) CompUSA store on the east side of the Dallas North Tollway between Belt Line Road and Arapaho Road in (what some call) far North Dallas. Cables, computers, you name it, I’ve been there to buy it. And when that building vacated several…

The Ultimate Second Shelter: Underground Bomb Shelters Sales Are Sky-High

By Candy Evans / March 31, 2011 /

I think this is one second dig every homeowner ought to have — a bomb shelter!¬† And talk about a business that doubles every year — go into the bomb shelter business! Sales of high tech survival shelters have surged from 20 to 1,000%, thanks to our national angst. Veteran bunker builder Walton McCarthy calls…

How To Find a Really Great Builder in Dallas: Go to the Folks Who Know How to Ask Those Really Tough Questions

By Candy Evans / March 29, 2011 /

People are always asking me how to find a builder they can trust! Last Thursday, you may have heard me Face-Booking, tweeting and making noises about Highland Homes, Darling Homes, Lantana and Castle Hills. And why was I so bullish on these¬† builders? Because they were cleaning up the show at the Home Builders Association…

More Free Tickets to the Park Cities Historic and Preservation Society Home Tour Next Weekend!

By Candy Evans / March 29, 2011 /

All the second homes in Destin, Port Aransas or Pebble Beach could not pull me away from next Saturday’s Park Cities Historic and Preservation Society‘s Spring home tour. That’s April 2, 2011, from 10 am – 4 pm. The owners of six gloriously historic and architecturally significant Park Cities homes will toss open their doors…

Dallas Real Estate News, Reduced for Quick Sale: White, Light, and Very Very Bright

By Candy Evans / March 28, 2011 /

Just getting to know the¬†Kozelskys as they are selling their architectural jewel of Dallas real estate for sale down the street from me. Now comes word from Lynette Scruggs they have reduced this the most talked about home in Dallas to $9,750,000 from $11.5. Amy said she was testing the waters, you go girl! Stick…