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.

‘Homes for the Holidays’ Tour Features Southern Coastal Charmer

By Bethany Erickson / November 26, 2018 /

Stephen and Abby Simpton’s home on University Boulevard, which is one of the homes in this year’s Armstrong Bradfield Preschool Association’s “Homes for the Holidays” home tour,  is the seventh home the couple has built. Abby, you see, really loves building homes. When they moved to San Antonio to Dallas, they began looking for the…

Real Estate News: Dallas Home Sales Decline in October

By Bethany Erickson / November 26, 2018 /

How did Dallas do when it comes to home sales compared to the nation? Are we starting to see more inventory? Where are various generations choosing to live in Dallas-Fort Worth? We have all of that in this week’s roundup of real estate news. DALLAS HOME SALES DECLINE IN OCTOBER The number of homes sold…

Treat Yo’ Self — Dallas Tops State For Tappable Equity

By Bethany Erickson / November 25, 2018 /

One of the pieces of good news about rising home values in Dallas is that homeowners could cash out as much as $132 billion (yes, with a “B”) in equity, analysis from lending marketplace Credible.com revealed. The company’s analysts found that Dallas ranks first in Texas and 10th in the nation for total tappable equity…

Eighteenth Century Philadelphia Abode Home to Nation’s First National Anthem

By Bethany Erickson / November 25, 2018 /

When Philadelphia lawyer Joseph Hopkinson and his wife Emily settled into their home on Spruce Street in 1794, the country was still in its infancy. Construction on the home itself had been completed just three years prior, by cabinet maker Jesse Williams. Hopkinson saw the country grow from a collection of colonies that banded together…

Entertain For the Holidays In Style With East Village Modern

By Bethany Erickson / November 24, 2018 /

It may be two days after Thanksgiving, but we’re betting that with the holiday entertaining season upon us, you might just be on the lookout for a home with great space for that, such as our Saturday Six Hundred in the East Village. Listed by Brandon Travelstead and the Travelstead Property Group with Dallas City…