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.

Investor Signals Discontent with Dallas Morning News Parent Company

By Bethany Erickson / April 25, 2019 /

On the heels of a dismal fourth quarter in 2018, one institutional investor in Dallas Morning News parent company A.H. Belo has signaled its discontent with the decisions the company has made with a letter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. Minerva Advisors, an investment management firm based in the Philadelphia suburb of…

The 80s-Era Ranch With the Laura Ashley Je Ne Sais Quoi

By Bethany Erickson / April 24, 2019 /

By now, if you’ve been playing along at home every Wednesday, you know that if we show you an 80s-era Ranch that looks completely normal on the exterior elevation, we’re going to basically bait and switch you in the interior, right? Good. Because that’s what we’re doing today with this house that came to me…

Midway Hollow Midcentury Bungalow Has a Pretty Price Point

By Bethany Erickson / April 23, 2019 /

It wasn’t but maybe four or five years ago that you could get a three-bedroom, one bath house in Midway Hollow for around $150,000ish. And while that’s not the case anymore, there are still homes to be had in the under $300,000 price range that place you in the hot neighborhood. And for those that…

North Texas Market Shifts — Slightly — to Buyer-Friendly

By Bethany Erickson / April 22, 2019 /

How big of a shift to a more buyer-friendly housing market did DFW make? What locals were appointed to a TREC advisory committee? What is MetroTex up to? We have all this and more with this week’s roundup of real estate news. Market Shifts to Buyer-Friendly As DOM and days of inventory begin to lengthen…

Major Migration? Dallas-Fort Worth Population Growth Tops Nation

By Bethany Erickson / April 21, 2019 /

Two out of three of the metropolitan areas that had the largest population growth were in Texas, and three Texas metropolitan areas were in the top 10 nationally, new census figures revealed. The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA topped the nation when it came to numeric population growth, the most recent Census Bureau data revealed Thursday, with…