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.

Dirty Dancing Listing in Australia Both Hilarious and Awful

By Bethany Erickson / May 1, 2019 /

More than a few people sent me this week’s listing from Australia, which (in the grand tradition of the Wednesday WTF) is borderline NSFW but only if you work in like, a church or a kindergarten or maybe one of those towns where dancing is sinful. For the rest of us, it’s probably just ridiculous.…

SoCo Loft Listing Offers Panoramic Views of Dallas for $239K

By Bethany Erickson / April 30, 2019 /

If you’ve been looking for something with some stellar views of Dallas and some pretty sweet amenities, this week’s Tuesday Two Hundred at the SoCo Lofts is probably going to do the trick. Unfamiliar with the lofts at 1122 Jackson Street? We wrote about them several years ago, but a quick primer: Constructed in 1926…

State Economy Growing, Job Numbers Continue to Increase

By Bethany Erickson / April 29, 2019 /

As the state economy grows and employment continues to rise, how are new home sales in North Texas faring? We have the answers in this week’s roundup of real estate news. Texas Economy Still Growing Faster Than Nation The Texas economy is still going like gangbusters, adding 271,000 nonagricultural jobs year-over-year in March, the Texas…

Historic McKinney Home Waiting to Add New Buyer’s Story

By Bethany Erickson / April 28, 2019 /

To say the W.D. Smith home in McKinney, built in 1902, has been around for a great deal of North Texas history is an understatement — from its early beginnings as a farmhouse to its life as an abode for an alleged bootlegger and later as home to a McKinney mayor, the quintessential Victorian farmhouse…

Stop Everything: Have You Filed Your Homestead Exemption?

By Bethany Erickson / April 28, 2019 /

  Easter is over, but we’re going to quote a rabbit anyway — if you’re waiting to file your homestead exemption for your property taxes, you may find yourself late, late, for a very important date.