Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
Registry Fine Homes is a very sharp home builder. Why build out a 6,500-plus-square-foot home with umpteen bedrooms and bathrooms, high utility maintenance, not to mention that giant check we all just wrote over a month ago to John Ames, Dallas County Tax Assessor? Instead, they took 5922 Boca Raton Drive in northern Preston Royal,…
With so many excellent residential brokerages vying annually for a piece of one of Dallas’ prized real estate pies – Preston Hollow/North Dallas, a.k.a., Area 11 – leaving the dessert table with the biggest slice is quite a coup. As in many years past, the 75-year-old Ebby Halliday Companies – comprising Ebby Halliday Realtors, Dave…
It’s been a scary, challenging week. Schools are extending their Spring Breaks for a week, there are no NBA games, no NHL games, and no Dallas Art Fair. At least one brokerage has shut down an office. Conferences are canceling left and right. New Rochelle, NY, is on lockdown with the National Guard enforcing. Museums…
Take a good, hard look at this beautiful Highland Park home. Guess when it was built. If you, like me, are accustomed to touring beautiful new home builds almost daily, you’d guess within the last five to seven years, right? WRONG. Pay attention: you are going to see a sort of magic take place with…
This story will be updated as new closures and postponements are announced. Business is anything but usual as the Coronavirus pandemic forces real estate executives to make a difficult decision. As of noon on Thursday, the Texas Department of Health and Human Services reported 23 confirmed cases in the state. Seven of them are in…
