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.

Property Tax Protest Deadline Is Today, And Filing Is Easy

By Bethany Erickson / May 15, 2019 /

Don’t say we didn’t warn you — the deadline for property tax protests is uh, today. And if you think this requires a massive scramble of documentation to file, we have good news: It can take as little as 10 minutes. We’ve been telling you about PropertyTax.io since last year. It’s an online tool developed…

We’re Neutral On This Listing Until We’re Totally Not

By Bethany Erickson / May 15, 2019 /

Two things about this house: One, click on the continued line of this column gingerly, dear readers; and two, can you go too neutral when decorating and staging your listing? We frequently tell people (or, when we say we, we mean Karen Eubank, our stager extraordinaire) that you should make sure you don’t have anything…

Rent No More? Check Out This Adorable Craftsman in the Heart of Oak Cliff

By Bethany Erickson / May 14, 2019 /

If you’ve been saving with that idea that you want to quit renting and buy,  the Tuesday Two Hundred price point is a great one to kick off any search — and it’s where you’ll find houses like this great Craftsman in North Oak Cliff. “Yes, it’s cute,” you may be thinking. “But North Oak…

Local Market Cool Down? Research Indicates Wave of New Buyers Coming

By Bethany Erickson / May 13, 2019 /

While the housing market might be lightly tapping the brakes as of late, a new report found that a wave of new buyers is coming — although how robustly they arrive will vary from city to city. While there was an impressive wave of first-time home buyers over the last decade, Zillow did the math…

Dallas County Posts Some of the Highest In-and-Out Migration Numbers

By Bethany Erickson / May 13, 2019 /

How many people are coming — and leaving — Dallas County? Has there been a local shift to more affordable new homes? What local journalist has been tapped to be a keynote speaker at a financial services conference? We have all this in this week’s roundup of real estate news. Dallas County Posts Some of…