Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
This is the SECOND year Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International has invited me to their sleek Turtle Creek offices to judge what is now becoming the most fun event of the year: the annual Halloween costume and chili cook-off. The costumes are fab, my favorite still being Maria Cintron’s Frieda Kahlo-inspired look, right down to her…
For Lee Rogers and Yvonne Rubenstein, it has always been about downtown Fort Worth. They met in downtown Fort Worth, and blazed the way to true urban living before New Urbanism became a buzz word. “When we met, we were both residents of Sundance West,” says Yvonne. “I was a buyer for Pier 1 Imports traveling the world. Lee had…
It’s a bit of a quirk: in recent years, the sale of four-bedroom homes has skyrocketed in market share. But the average size of a new home has been falling steadily — getting smaller — for the past decade. So buyers want more bedrooms (even if having fewer kids) in a smaller space on less…
Waterworld. That’s the word that came to mind as I entered this beautiful north Preston Hollow/Preston Haven home on a hot, 100-plus-degree day in August. I was cooled instantly, not just by the efficient AC but by the double dose of sky-blue water that visually wows as soon as you open the front door. Talk…
A Briarwood woman was assaulted and robbed as she pulled into her garage, NBC5 reported last night. But it was already circulating social media in Greenway Parks as news spread among concerned neighbors of this assault. According to personal neighbor reports, a single woman came home to her Elsby Avenue residence at about 9:30 p.m.…
