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.

Live Oak Condos Put You Close to Everything Dallas, and We Have a Map to Prove It

By Shelby Skrhak / September 27, 2023 /

When Courtney Tauriac of Compass RE Texas says the new Live Oak Condos she is listing are close to everything, I can fact-check that for this week’s Highlight Home of the Week, sponsored by Dallas mortgage banker Lisa Peters of Cardinal Financial, and report back with a big affirmative checkmark. In fact, Tauriac has a…

Kessler West Event Gives Guests View of the Dallas Skyline They’ve Probably Never Seen

By Shelby Skrhak / September 26, 2023 /

A recent CandysDirt.com event at Kessler West became as much about the luxury townhome community as it did the disappearing and reappearing Dallas skyline. With heavy rain moving across the Metroplex that Sept. 14 evening, attendees couldn’t help but draw their attention to the changing Dallas sky, and actually, that was kind of the point.…

Timeless Charm Meets Modern Living: Experience It All for Under $500k in Lochwood

By Shelby Skrhak / September 24, 2023 /

When the home at 11628 Sahara Way was advertised in the Dallas Morning News classifieds in March 1966, one Collin D. Skinner highlighted the choice location of walking distance to what he called Turner Elementary and Lochwood shopping. When Mr. Billy Sanders described it in January 1973, he highlighted the three bedrooms and two full…

Hot Growth: @properties Christie’s International Real Estate Entering Austin Market This Fall

By Shelby Skrhak / September 22, 2023 /

If you thought the Dallas-Fort Worth real estate market was hopping, then Austin’s luxury housing market is on a full rager. It’s only natural then that Dallas Cowboys tycoon Jerry Jones and his nephew Jerry Mooty Jr., @properties Christie’s International Real Estate CEO, are casting eyes and cash at ATX. @properties Christie’s International Real Estate…

Here’s a Friendly-Looking Townhouse in the Villas of Prestonwood Listed by a Friendly Realtor

By Shelby Skrhak / September 20, 2023 /

It’s always fun to put a face to a name. When I first spoke to Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate agent Michael Bepko about his listing for the Highlight Home of the Week, sponsored by Dallas mortgage banker Lisa Peters a few months ago, I was desperate and on deadline. I was texting a complete stranger…