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.

Real Estate News: Dallas Still a Player in the Corporate HQ Game

By Bethany Erickson / November 19, 2018 /

How does Dallas stack up with the rest of the country when it comes to gains in corporate headquarters? What did the Dallas Fed say about the state of the state’s economy? Are Texans underwater, or equity rich? We have all of that in this week’s roundup of real estate news. DON’T FRET – DALLAS…

How Does Texas Compare When It Comes to $1 Million Neighborhoods?

By Bethany Erickson / November 19, 2018 /

As home prices continue to rise, it’s not unusual to see homes that might have been $700,000 to $800,000 a few years ago suddenly come in at a healthy $1 million or more — all over the country. A new Trulia report analyzed home values nationally and found that the share of single-family homes with…

Historical Virginia Home With Link To a Founding Father

By Bethany Erickson / November 18, 2018 /

When you begin looking for houses of historical significance, especially on the week of Thanksgiving, you often turn to the places where the country was born. For this week’s historical shelter, we found a Virginia home owned by a Revolutionary War soldier turned inn owner, with ties to a founding father and future president. The…

Custom-Built Sachse Beauty Owned By Realtor Is Ready for New Family

By Bethany Erickson / November 17, 2018 /

When a Realtor pitches you a listing that is her own home, you sit up and pay attention — especially when she tells you that it was custom built just for her family. And our Saturday Six Hundred this week in Sachse is definitely a home that should earn your attention. LaVenda Lee, who is…

Saturday Surprise: Two Homes in the Two Hundreds, Freshly Listed

By Bethany Erickson / November 17, 2018 /

So, here’s the deal — sometimes we have an embarrassment of riches, and we find a whole slew of one price point, which is what happened this week – too many two hundreds, all awesome, and not enough Tuesday. So what’s a writer to do? Well, she takes those surplus two hundreds and showcases the…