Candy Evans

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

Doctor on The Coronavirus Front Line: Will Dallas-Fort Worth Stay Home For Me?

By Candy Evans / April 9, 2020 /

We know the real estate community is squeezed by what we have to do to stop the spread of the pandemic of coronavirus. But thank God we have technology, right? We have been in quarantine now for two weeks or more I’ve lost count. We have way more to go. It’s a huge inconvenience: I…

Breaking: Redfin Furloughs 41 Percent of Salaried Agents

By Candy Evans / April 7, 2020 /

The company chose to furlough agents instead of laying off in order to benefit from the $2 trillion CARES Act stimulus. Seattle-based Redfin, one of the very first disruptive brokerages to set the scene for upending the traditional brokerage model, announced Tuesday that it will furlough 41 percent of its agents, totaling nearly 600 people,…

DFW Market Could be Among Least Affected by COVID-19, Northeast Most Affected

By Candy Evans / April 7, 2020 /

This is the ten million dollar question on every agent’s mind this minute: how much will COVID-19 affect the housing market? Most specifically, the LOCAL housing market. OUR housing market? It’s still early in the game. On Friday. I listened to real estate tech strategist Mike DelPrete’s “The Real Estate Pandemic Survival Guide.” It’s 50%…

One-on-One With Candy: Rogers Healy on the Strength of The DFW Market

By Candy Evans / April 6, 2020 /

He’s been at his ranch near Lindale, Texas, ever since the COVID-19-imposed quarantine began. But he’s still selling real estate, and eating healthy. Today’s one-on-one features real estate talk with our favorite millennial broker and go-getter Rogers Healy, founder of his eponymous brokerage Rogers Healy and Associates.

Grand Manor in Colleyville Is The Ultimate Entertaining Home

By Candy Evans / April 2, 2020 /

Dallas has tons of jaw-dropping properties, but only rare homes like this truly take your breath away. As soon as you set eyes on the impressive stone manor, you’ll know you are somewhere that is anything but ordinary. Luckily, this isn’t just eye candy. The wondrous abode with incredible spaces for entertaining is now up…