Candy Evans

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

Why We Need Multiple Homes: Are There Any (Starving) Artists in Dallas?

By Candy Evans / November 24, 2010 /

Remember that post about it being too darn expensive for starving artists to live in NYC, so they are moving to Berlin and, well we’d hope, here to Dallas because our cost of living is allegedly so much cheaper? Well my dear (and quite brilliant) friend, Samantha Shaddock, who has a new (and fabulous) blog…

House Porn: Tiger Wood’s Jupiter Island Private Home and Golf Course

By Candy Evans / November 20, 2010 /

Tiger Woods is one dude who appreciates, among other things,¬† second homes. Jeff Lichtenstein of Christie’s Great Estates & Illustrated Properties in Palm Beach Gardens, sent us a first glimpse of Tiger Wood’s backyard and private practice complex –click on that photo, this is great House Porn: “It appears he has one tee box in…

Want 13% Appreciation on a Second Home? Buy a Farm in Iowa!

By Candy Evans / November 19, 2010 /

Could farmland be the next real estate bubble? Want to get a second home that is not only in the country, it IS the country? Like The Bridges of Madison County country? Buy a farm in Iowa. No kidding: Iowa farmland rose in value by 13 percent in the year ending Oct. 1, according to…

Extreme Dallas-Area House Porn: Champ D’Or

By Candy Evans / November 19, 2010 /

Actually, by Guest Blogger John Burgdorf The Champ d’Or, one of the most expensive estates in Texas, is back on the market for nearly $70,000,000 — $69,900,000 to be exact. (That’s $100,000 to negotiate.) The 48,000. sq foot mega mansion is located in Hickory Creek right across the Denton county/Tarrant county line. I have been…

Extreme Dallas-Area House Porn: Champs D’Or

By Candy Evans / November 19, 2010 /

Actually, by Guest Blogger John Burgdorf The Champ d’Or, one of the most expensive estates in Texas, is back on the market for nearly $70,000,000 — $69,900,000 to be exact. (That’s $100,000 to negotiate.) The 48,000. sq foot mega mansion is located in Hickory Creek right across the Denton county/Tarrant county line. I have been…