Shelby Skrhak

Shelby Skrhak is executive editor of CandysDirt.com and producer of the Dallas Dirt podcast. She loves covering estate sales and murder homes, not necessarily related. As a lifelong Dallas native, she's been an Eagle, Charger, Wildcat, and a Comet.

Innovative Ways to Promote an Open House

By Shelby Skrhak / July 1, 2021 /

Open houses have never been so lucrative. In this hot housing market with low inventory, an open house is no longer about getting an offer on a house. It’s how you get many, many offers on your listing. We’d like to offer a few pieces of expert advice for our real estate professionals out there.…

No Expense Spared in This Waterfront at Forest Home

By Shelby Skrhak / June 30, 2021 /

This week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, is a breathtaker – the noun form of breathtaking. Now, I’m not confident on the validity of that word but if there was ever a home that needed a noun created for it, it’s this one. This North Dallas…

Affordable Homes in DFW? We Found a Few Darling Neighborhoods in Anna

By Shelby Skrhak / June 29, 2021 /

This week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank, takes us to the northern Collin County city of Anna, where you’ll find this 1,541-square-foot home listed by Shelbie McKenzie of Coldwell Banker Realty. Now, homes at this price point are hotter than hot so we couldn’t get it published before it went…

Million Dollar Listing’s Fredrik Eklund Helps Launch New Kessler West

By Shelby Skrhak / June 25, 2021 /

There are two ways to write this story. We could tell you how the Douglas Elliman brokerage, brand new to Dallas, brought their selling star power to Kessler West last night as part of the new North Oak Cliff community’s open house launch. Or, we can dish the dirt on Fredrik Eklund’s whirlwind visit to…

Highland Park Modern Concrete and Glass Home Is a Feat of Engineering

By Shelby Skrhak / June 24, 2021 /

James E. Langford is the design mind behind some of Highland Park’s most innovative modern homes, and now one of his creations — distinctive for its underground pass-through parking and use of concrete — is on the market. Chris D. Bentley of Bentley Fine Properties has listed the four-story luxury home at 3610 Lindenwood Avenue…