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.

Pagewood Park Contemporary Offers Plenty of Entertaining Space

By Bethany Erickson / December 8, 2018 /

This week’s Saturday Seven Hundred near Pagewood Park may feel like a Midcentury Ranch straight from the Sixties, but in reality, it’s a well-done and impeccably updated 1986 Contemporary with plenty of space for entertaining. The one-story ranch is located at 10819 Pagewood Place, on a corner cul de sac lot. With 3,204 square feet…

From Facebook: Kitchen Islands — Yay or Nay?

By Bethany Erickson / December 7, 2018 /

We all have our own list of things that are on trend, but maybe don’t excite us. Shiplap. Inspirational phrases on walls. Soaking tubs. But when one writer said she hated her kitchen island, we decided to ask our readers if they harbored similar disgruntlement against the fairly ubiquitous feature. Realtor.com writer Cathie Ericson said:…

Beautiful Waverly Flip Was a Labor of Love for Couple

By Bethany Erickson / December 6, 2018 /

It’s not unusual to move to a new town and buy a new house. But the Pages didn’t just buy a house — they bought their first flip, in a city that they’re making their new home base. As far as flips go, Jennifer and Tim Page actually picked a home that wasn’t entirely scary…

Get Closer to Downtown Dallas With One of Three Open Houses

By Bethany Erickson / December 6, 2018 /

If you’ve been thinking about moving closer to downtown Dallas, but weren’t sure which downtown-adjacent neighborhood you wanted to live in, or whether you wanted to be smack-dab in downtown, we have some great options this week. Every Thursday, we bring you our pick of the hottest North Texas properties in our CandysDirt.com Open Houses…

The Alaska Town So Small (Almost) Everyone Lives Under the Same Roof

By Bethany Erickson / December 5, 2018 /

Alaska folk, I’ve always imagined, are pretty hardy folk made of some pretty stern stuff, although I admit that my knowledge of Alaska’s residents is mostly gleaned from Sarah Palin, Northern Exposure, and whatever I remember from U.S. History classes. So when I heard about a town in Alaska whose residents mostly all live in…