Candy Evans

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

Real Estate Investing: Not Just How Much, But Where

By Candy Evans / February 23, 2011 /

Jeff Harding makes an excellent point. What we heard yesterday proves our housing market is years from the bottom, and those of us who keep saying, OK, this is it, are continually blown away by the sweeps of foreclosures and short sales that are coming on the market. Those are watering down prices and will…

Is It Hard to Sell A Home Where a Murder Has Taken Place? For JonBenet Ramsey House It Has

By Candy Evans / February 23, 2011 /

My colleague Sheree Curry writes about the Boulder, Colorado home where little JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered nearly 14 years ago — how sad to think she would have been 20 years old had she lived. It’s back on the market for $2.3 million. The JonBenet murder was never solved, her mother has since died,…

Ski Towns Cracking Down on Under The Table Rental Owners

By Candy Evans / February 22, 2011 /

Last week I told you how New York state is gigging out of state home owners for state taxes even if you don’t sleep there. Head west to the Rockies for this tall tale: the Colorado Association of Ski Towns, or CAST, is holding off on plans to¬† hunt down vacation rental owners who aren’t…

Case-Shiller: U.S. Down, Dallas Treading

By Candy Evans / February 22, 2011 /

I’m just going to say it: is this administration trying to KILL OFF the U.S. housing market? By now, if you are in the real estate business, you are thinking about serious drinking. Save the calories if you live in Dallas: we did OK. Not great, but OK. The S&P/Case-Shiller report says overall, the nation’s…

Yet Another Reason to Visit, Not Live in, San Francisco!

By Candy Evans / February 22, 2011 /

I know, it’s kind of mean and I couldn’t bring myself to circumcise a fly, but just the idea that they are legislating all this stuff! San Francisco may ban infant circumcision as part of a national movement to stem the procedure which experts say is purely religious tradition but offers no benefits. I mean,…