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.

North Plano Toll Brothers Home Is a HQ Commuter’s Dream

By Shelby Skrhak / February 9, 2019 /

For this week’s Saturday Six Hundred, we head to north Plano for this 3,918-square-foot Toll Brothers home at 6913 Portobello Drive in Kings Ridge. For all those employees flocking to west Plano in the land of corporate relocations, this home is in the perfect location for commuting. The four-bedroom, three-bath open floor plan offers plenty…

Tri-Level or Split-Level, Whatever You Call It This South Dallas Home is Special

By Shelby Skrhak / February 7, 2019 /

Whether you call it a tri-level or a split-level, mid-century fans will love this luxuriously-finished piece of history from 1968 with everything you want in 2019. This four-bedroom, three-bath home at 1554 Russell Glen Lane is this week’s featured Thursday Three Hundred with a list price of $385,000. Check out this hard-to-find split level at an Open…

This Dream 12,000 Square Footer Could Be Your New Home and Office

By Shelby Skrhak / February 5, 2019 /

Twelve thousand square feet is calling your name! This five-bedroom, five full-bath, and three half-bath Colleyville home at 7212 John McCain Road will be auctioned Feb. 23 by Elite Auctions. Yes, it’s really on John McCain Road, named for the late American senator and hero. OPEN HOUSE PREVIEW | Takes place from 1-4 p.m., Feb.…

A Courtyard and Casita Make This Frisco Home Near PGA HQ Special

By Shelby Skrhak / February 4, 2019 /

We could fall in love with this two-story 2014-built Darling Home for the front loggia alone, but add the fact that you’re near the newly announced PGA Headquarters coming to Frisco, it’s a hole in one for 12869 Terlingua Creek Drive in Newman Village, one of Frisco’s most exclusive and private gated communities. This breathtaking…

In Rural Sunnyvale, You’ll Find Lovely Well-Priced Homes on Acreage Lots

By Shelby Skrhak / February 3, 2019 /

The small rural town of Sunnyvale in Dallas County has a pretty fascinating history, as the amalgamation of the four towns of Hatterville, Long Creek, Tripp, and New Hope in the 1950s. A storm in the 1920s wiped out the most prosperous of these towns, New Hope, where shops, stores, and an annual fair called…