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.

Let’s Do The Time Warp Again: The Vertigo Master Suite Edition

By Bethany Erickson / March 20, 2019 /

Although we’re no stranger to properties time forgot, this week’s Wednesday WTF is most definitely a time warp. Once again, we have found that the most innocuous looking houses hold the most secrets inside. And the secrets this seemingly unassuming Ranch-style home in Las Vegas holds? Well, let’s just say they were special enough to…

Historic Downtown Elm Street Loft Within Blocks of Tons of Amenities

By Bethany Erickson / March 19, 2019 /

Sometimes in the course of finding homes to feature through the week, we end up traveling down a bit of a wormhole when the abode’s history comes up. But our trip to the past for the history of this historic downtown Dallas loft was the unusual for a Tuesday Two Hundred. We first found this…

Dallas Ranks 38th Nationally For Home Vacancies

By Bethany Erickson / March 18, 2019 /

Dallas has fewer home vacancies than the national average, the Dallas Fed announced a new hire, and the Inclusive Communities Project is hosting a Latino Urbanism discussion. We have the details in this week’s roundup of real estate news.

Nation, Dallas Sees Rise in Number of High-Income Renters

By Bethany Erickson / March 17, 2019 /

More and more people are choosing to rent, economists are finding, but Apartment List found in a recent study that one particular — and somewhat surprising — segment of the rental market is booming: high-income renters. The report deems those with six-figure incomes as high-income renters, and a growing number in this income bracket are…

Midway Hollow Rental Zoned for Great Schools

By Bethany Erickson / March 17, 2019 /

Midway Hollow is hot — even with all the new construction, it’s managed to maintain the things that make people want to live there — the friendly neighbors, the tree-lined streets, and the access to great schools. So when we came across this three-bedroom, two bath home on Dunhaven Road for rent, we knew we…