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The Utility Concierge: Your One Stop Shop to Get New Home Utilities Set Up, Analyzed, For FREE

By Candy Evans | October 6, 2014 |

Photo courtesy of the Dallas Morning News Kye R. Lee/Staff PhotographerRemember when we told you about Gabe Abshire’s Utility Concierge, the brilliant company that hooks up all your utilities and services when you move into a new home? Thinking of what a pain in the neck all that can be gives me a headache and makes…

Jane McGarry’s New Online Magazine Will Be Featuring House P. From CandysDirt!

By Candy Evans | October 6, 2014 |

We love Jane McGarry, from the first time we watched her at the KXAS-TV anchor desk to the fun times I had with her on Nonstop Nightly when I’d drive to the KXAS studios in Fort Worth and give a little real estate report in the early days of this blog. Early days? I know,…

Russwood Acres Home PROVES You Can Teach an Old Ranch WAY SEXY New Tricks!

By Candy Evans | October 6, 2014 |

Well, this home sure made my Sunday, and I hope it makes your week! I do not know when I have seen such a wonderfully beautiful, thorough, tasteful remodel of a circa 1960’s ranch in Russwood Acres. This neighborhood of sprawling ranches and hefty yards up at Inwood and Royal is still enjoying a lot…

That Markdown on Tom Hicks Property is the Second Reduction With Less Land: From $98 Million Now to $60 Million

By Candy Evans | October 6, 2014 |

Alan Peppard reported Sunday on something I have been meaning to tell you: The Tom Hicks Crespi Estate on Walnut Hill Lane has been reduced in price, somewhat. As Alan reports, the Hicks have decided to sell their estate with less land for less money: 10 acres, and 42,500-square-feet of the most luxurious living in Dallas…

Don’t Miss The Latest ‘Grand Vie’ With a Column on Boot Ranch From Candy!

By Joanna England | October 3, 2014 |

The newest issue of the luxury home publication of Ebby Halliday, Realtors and Dave Perry-Miller & Associates is out, and includes a fantastic column from Candy herself on life in Boot Ranch. The fall/winter 2014 edition of the direct-mailed glossy went out to 30,000 of North Texas’ most tony abodes, and is chock-full of the most…

Coffee Bar, Web Management Central, Crafts & Game Room for Under $900,000? Only in Dallas

By Candy Evans | October 3, 2014 |

Yes, we may have the nation’s first Ebola patient, but we also still have the best housing market in the whole dang world. And the good folks at Inwood National Bank have plucked another one for you to drool over. New construction by M. Christopher Custom Homes at 6106 Llano in Lakewood Heights has a…