Celebrity Homes

Follow the Gayborhoods: Two Pricey Dallas Hoods Make Top Ten List of Most Gay-Saturated Cities

By Candy Evans / June 20, 2012 /

According to one of my favorite real estate websites, Trulia, Dallas ranks No. 8 among the nation’s most “gay-friendly” cities, speaking of real estate. And, the top 10 list of these gay-friendly neighborhoods in each city also happen to coincide with the pricest markets and neighborhoods in those cities. In otherwords, Trulia is just verifying something we already know: want your real estate to appreciate in value? Follow the Gayborhood!

Where Credit is Due: The Dallas Morning News Borrowed Photos From Ebby Realtor’s “Dallas” Listing, But You’d Never Know by Looking

By Joanna England / June 20, 2012 /

I was reading an article on DallasNews.com earlier today when I saw one of those teasers on the sidebar that said, “Check out this Plano mega-mansion featured on TNT’s reboot of ‘Dallas’.”

I had to click, of course, if not only because I am infatuated with the new “Dallas” cast, but I wanted to see if they had some cool photos outside of the ones you saw with your own eyes right here on CandysDirt.com.

Cinnamon Shore’s Town Growth Goes Gourmet, Takes on Hollywood

By Candy Evans / June 19, 2012 /

Perhaps you have procrastinated, like I have a tendency to do. Maybe you haven’t decided where to take the family for a fun-filled vacation, and it’s mid June. May I suggest Cinnamon Shore, Mustang Island’s seaside village, located in Port Aransas on Texas’s Coastal Bend? It’s not that far from Big D and offers a whole schedule of summer events planned to make vacationing in paradise even sweeter. Plus who knows: you might like it so much you decide to buy a second home there.

Tuesday Two Hundred, Las Colinas Style: This House Could Totally Have Been My Mother’s House

By Candy Evans / June 19, 2012 /

My mother and dad built their dream home in the late 1960’s, and I so wish I could show you the innards: orange shag carpets, cathedral ceilings, flocked & poppy floral vinyl wallcovering (my mom was sooo psyched about that!) and cultured marble vanities. Mine were red with two shell-shaped sinks; we have a picture…

The British are Calling: “Dallas” Real Estate Soon to be in London News

By Candy Evans / June 19, 2012 /

I get emails like this from time to time: I’m a British journalist based in Austin and I’m working on a story for the Sunday Telegraph magazine in London that I’m hoping you can help with. It’s pegged to the new season of Dallas starting in the Fall in the UK (in June, I believe,…