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.

Sutton Place on Cole Avenue Is Perfect Address for Sleek Uptown Living

By Shelby Skrhak / October 31, 2019 /

By the time we came back to this week’s Inwood National Bank Home of the Week listed by Mohammed Jaber of Compass RE Texas, the home at 3100 Cole Avenue, No. 214 was already under contract. That’s OK because it turned us on to a great condo complex full of well-built, updated one- and two-bedrooms…

Good Thing Split-Level Homes Are Becoming Popular Again Because This One’s FAB

By Shelby Skrhak / October 30, 2019 /

In the 60s, split-level homes were all the rage. Like a ranch style, but stacked. Today’s buyers are harkening back to this style that’s been called “the minivans of the architectural world” and digging the unique midcentury vibe of split-levels that offer some needed separation that open floor plans lack. This week’s High Caliber Home…

Centre Living @ Lakewood: See Inside This Modern Neighborhood of Just Six Homes

By Shelby Skrhak / October 29, 2019 /

Sleek and simply modern, that’s how you could describe the six new homes that makeup Centre Living at Lakewood, an exclusive new project designed by the award-winning Dallas-based architecture firm FAR+DANG. Located at Swiss Ave and La Vista, the new Centre Living Homes community is a mix of two single-family homes and four duplex homes. The…

Try Addison for Affordable Rentals Near North Dallas

By Shelby Skrhak / October 27, 2019 /

Since Sunday night, almost the minute that the tornado sirens went off across North Dallas and surrounding cities, we started posting information on our social pages and website to help the many thousands of readers affected directly by this multi-tornadic storm like we’ve never seen before. For this week’s edition of Suburb Sunday, we looked…

This Farmers Branch Home Could Be Great Option for Storm-Affected Family

By Shelby Skrhak / October 26, 2019 /

With families displaced after Sunday’s series of tornadoes, real estate agents are scrambling to help clients find temporary housing. Here’s an option: This Farmers Branch home that’s for lease and sale is just minutes away from Preston Hollow on the other side of 635/LBJ. Victor Aves of Pegasus Realty Inc. has listed the nearly 4,000-square-foot…