Joy Donovan

Joy Donovan is a contributing writer for CandysDirt.com covering the Midcities and Fort Worth.

DART Expands, Making Getting Around to These North Texas Neighborhoods Easier for Homeowners

By Joy Donovan / January 25, 2024 /

Oh my gosh. Let me uncurl my white knuckles from the steering wheel to write this. And maybe breathe, after the near sideswipe on Interstate 35. Then there was that guy who laid on his horn just because I dared to engage my blinker to turn left. I’m so sorry, sir, that you had to…

Willow Park to Add More Rooftops to Booming Parker County Suburb

By Joy Donovan / January 19, 2024 /

Things are booming in Parker County’s Willow Park, where residences are in demand. One of the answers to requests for more residential real estate comes from Wilks Development and Clarity Homes. Wilks Development recently sold its remaining 44 acres of residential property to the home builder. Clarity Homes now plans to build 80 homes in…

Tour These Open Houses in Cities With Policies Rooted in Tree Preservation

By Joy Donovan / January 18, 2024 /

Trees, it seems, are more valued than a strip of restaurants or luxurious houses in some cities. Like the Lorax, who speaks for the trees? As it turns out, several North Texas cities have come down on the side of our favorite atmospheric oxygenators in the past year, making decisions ranging from zoning decisions to…

Resolved to Become a Homeowner? Let’s Open The Door to Some Great Open Houses This Weekend

By Joy Donovan / January 11, 2024 /

While it’s still early in 2024, some of us haven’t even broken our New Year’s resolutions yet. Others — ahem — haven’t even started trying. Technically, that means they’re not broken, right? For some, the New Year’s promise to oneself was to become a homeowner in 2024. Big decision for sure, but ponder these reasons…

This Westover Hills Estate Comes With a List of Reasons You Should Buy it

By Joy Donovan / January 9, 2024 /

There are at least as many reasons to want the house at 2201 Hidden Creek Road in Westover Hills as there are steps sweeping up to the grand front door. So many that it might be difficult to tally the number of reasons this Tarrant County estate’s entry into the MLS is getting traction. “Where…