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.

Just Listed: Nearly 3,000 Square Feet for $300K in Grand Prairie

By Shelby Skrhak / March 7, 2019 /

This large corner lot home at 824 Times Street in Grand Prairie has only been on the market for a few days and probably won’t last long. The 2,912-square-foot 2001-built home has four bedrooms, two and a half baths, two living areas, and a private office as you first walk in the home. It’s listed by…

Long Cove Townhomes: This Is Modern Living on the Lake

By Shelby Skrhak / March 6, 2019 /

Back in March we told you about Long Cove’s newest luxury lakefront neighborhood, Henderson Bay, and now we’ve got complete details about the sleek new townhomes being built there by Robert Elliott Custom Homes, starting from $695,000. Since the beginning, we’ve followed Don McNamara’s Long Cove development as it’s become a sprawling 1,000-acre second-home haven…

Cozy Up to This Picture-Perfect University Park Family Home on Villanova

By Shelby Skrhak / March 4, 2019 /

Rogers Healy has another great luxury listing for us at 3837 Villanova in University Park that’s walking distance to Preston Center and in the center of all that’s Park Cities. This updated transitional-style home is a roomy 4,214 square-feet with four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and one half-bath. It sits on an oversized 75 x 150-foot lot,…

Austin Waters Estate Among the Beauties in Carrollton

By Shelby Skrhak / March 3, 2019 /

For this week’s Suburb Sunday, we head to Denton County… er, Dallas County. No, Collin County. What county is Carrollton located in? All three, actually. As the 23rd most populous city in Texas, Carrollton is a vibrant town of industry, retail, and residential with a historic downtown that’s booming with a healthy rail-transit system. Come…

A Bent Tree Contemporary That’s Full of Wood and Windows

By Shelby Skrhak / March 2, 2019 /

I want this house. I know all us writers at CandysDirt.com could say that a few times a week, but this home at 5414 Harbor Town Drive in Bent Tree is so crush-worthy that I’m fighting the urge to stop writing and start moving.  A classic contemporary nestled on a half-acre lot, this 4,921-square-foot home…