Bethany Erickson

Bethany Erickson lives in a 1961 Fox and Jacobs home with her husband, a second-grader, and Conrad Bain the dog. If she won the lottery, she'd by an E. Faye Jones home.
She's taken home a few awards for her writing, including a Gold award for Best Series at the 2018 National Association of Real Estate Editors journalism awards, a 2018 Hugh Aynesworth Award for Editorial Opinion from the Dallas Press Club, and a 2019 award from NAREE for a piece linking Medicaid expansion with housing insecurity.
She is a member of the Online News Association, the Education Writers Association, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and the Society of Professional Journalists.
She doesn't like lima beans or the word moist.

Big Al’s Smokehouse Joins with Corning, Conomos to Raise Funds for Elan Victims

By Bethany Erickson / June 17, 2019 /

You can help residents of the Elan City Lights, who were displaced after a crane destroyed their apartments June 9. We also see how Texas fared in a look at buyer traffic, and see what home sales looked like in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. All of this is in this week’s roundup of real estate…

Want Your Power Back Sooner During an Outage? Live Here.

By Bethany Erickson / June 16, 2019 /

If you were one of the 350,000 North Texans sitting in the dark (or paying for a hotel room)during last week’s power outage, you might have missed one little tidbit of information that should make the real estate-minded perk up their ears. There are places you can live where your power is more likely to…

Want to Play Midcentury I-Spy? Get Ready To See Our Latest Partnership

By Bethany Erickson / June 16, 2019 /

As children, nearly everyone has played some form of “I Spy,” but one group of fans of Midcentury Modern architecture have created an amped up, grown up opportunity that harnesses the power of Instagram. The group modTexas is asking Texans to participate in Mapping Texas Mod, their newest Instagram-based initiative to document modernist architecture and…

Take Your Pick from Two Remodeled Kings Highway Units

By Bethany Erickson / June 16, 2019 /

Sometimes you just luck into a great rental in North Oak Cliff, and this is one of those times. In a neighborhood Facebook group, Richard Akers told everyone about his newly remodeled duplex with two available units right in the heart of Kings Highway — and we begged him for more details. The duplex is…

Great Dallas ISD School, Great Neighborhood, Great Park Forest House

By Bethany Erickson / June 15, 2019 /

One of the great things about a neighborhood school is the fact that the neighborhood it is in is often very much a part of the fabric of the school, and vice versa. That is definitely the case with our School + House entry for this week, Dallas ISD’s DeGolyer Elementary, which sits just about…