Burada dan evin yakın mı? Is your house near here?

 "yakın" always follow a noun. This noun must be in dative/lative case.

-e yakın / -a yakın

bura = here

bura-y-a = here (dative/lative) / y is placed between the two a´s

buraya yakın = near here

-a/-e suffix corresponds to English propositions "to" and "into"   

You can think it as if there is "to" before near. (near to here)

Evin buraya yakın mı?

The opposite of yakın is uzak and it always follow a noun suffixed with -dan/-den. This suffix corresponds to English proposition "from".

Evin buradan uzak mı? = Is your house far from here?

So far as I know in English you always use "from" for ablative case but sometime omit "to" for dative case. (bana ver/ onu bana ver - give me/ give it to me)