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.

The Britannia Group Points Compass at Town and Country

By Bethany Erickson / January 25, 2019 /

When two Brits get together — each with impressive track records in the real estate market — you can rest assured that their combined market knowledge is a powerful force. That is very much the case now that Mark Godson and Catherine Thorpe-Lambert have joined forces with Compass Real Estate to form The Britannia Group,…

Catch These Pitches: Four Houses Worth Seeing This Weekend

By Bethany Erickson / January 24, 2019 /

As we’ve mentioned before, every week we solicit pitches for our various featured listing posts, including our weekly roundup of open houses. You can tag us on Instagram, or even better, you can join our Facebook group, Getting the Dirt.  It’s a great place to virtually mingle with fellow professionals, ask questions, lend a hand,…

Someone Paid $3.5M For A Very Big Hovel in Canada

By Bethany Erickson / January 23, 2019 /

So, in the course of finding this week’s Wednesday WTF, I had three options. One was really nice, one was really charming and whimsical, and one was none of those things because it’s a Canadian hovel. Guess which one I picked? Yeah. The hovel. Maybe you’ll get really nice or really charming and whimsical next…

Fossil’s Works of HeART Auction To Benefit Big Thought

By Bethany Erickson / January 23, 2019 /

Have some empty walls and empty shelves you need to fill? Fossil Group will host its seventh annual Works of HeART auction and fundraiser next week, and the money from that piece of art you could pick up there will go to benefit Big Thought, a nonprofit organization working to close the opportunity gap. The…

Creek-Backed Duncanville Home On Heavily Treed Lot – And Minutes From Downtown

By Bethany Erickson / January 22, 2019 /

One of the best things about the Tuesday Two Hundred price point is the fact that you can often find a well-maintained, move-in ready home that just needs a few taste-specific updates to make it your own — like this Duncanville home on a gorgeous lot backing up to a creek. Listed by Judie Burnham with…