Candy Evans

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

How To Find The Best Real Estate Agent in Town, any Town

By Candy Evans / January 13, 2011 /

You know how it is: we all know the best real estate agents, usually people we have worked with, realtors we trust. In Dallas, we are lucky enough to be loaded with top quality agents. We look at some of those those “best lists” and scratch our heads — who are these people, and did…

Second Homes That Rock: I am in Love With a Toilet

By Candy Evans / January 11, 2011 /

Not just any toilet, but the Toto Neorest. It happens to be in the master bath of the second home I am enjoying here in (c-c-c-cold) New York City. It heats, washes, dries, all but buffs and powders your butt and is self-cleaning. I was more than delighted to see such high-quality fixtures in this…

Second Home Sales are on the Rise!

By Candy Evans / January 10, 2011 /

I will not say I told you so, but I did, and this is the very¬†reason why we are talking today. The Wall Street Journal today reports that sales in vacation communities soared last year to heights not seen since the real estate boom that crashed (and burned) in 2008. (For those of us in…

More On NBC-Series “Chase” Being Filmed in My Backyard

By Candy Evans / January 5, 2011 /

I found out whose house is being used in Thursday’s filming of “Chase” — our neighbors Lee Kleinman and Lisa Umholtz, great people.¬† Oh, and Buddy, too — who happens to be a darling Labradoodle and frequent suitor of our Bree. The home is a gorgeous contemporary and the producers apparently think it looks like…

NBC Series “Chase” Being Filmed in my Backyard

By Candy Evans / January 3, 2011 /

Well, not exactly my backyard, but right down the street from me. We are being warned that several Chase production trucks will be parked along the street, and traffic will be blocked. Also we are asked to refrain from any loud yard work — no blowers. I wonder what they plan to do about the…