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.

Feel Like the Fete Set in This 1999 McKinney Loft

By Shelby Skrhak / December 7, 2022 /

When it first opened in the year 2000, 1999 McKinney was a fixture in the papers. The late, beloved Alan Peppard often wrote for the Dallas Morning News about the fete set charity events held in the luxury high-rise located at McKinney Avenue and N. Harwood Street. The lofts’ towering ceilings and stunning views of…

The Day Pierce Allman Met Lee Harvey Oswald

By Shelby Skrhak / November 29, 2022 /

The young reporter who may have unwittingly said, “Thank you” to President John F. Kennedy’s alleged assassin passed away Friday at the age of 88. Pierce Allman, the father of Dallas real estate and co-founder of Allie Beth Allman & Associates Real Estate, was a newsman for WFAA-Radio that fateful day in Dallas. Allman’s authoritative…

JPAR Offers Tools, Tactics, and Technology for Agents to Succeed

By Shelby Skrhak / November 25, 2022 /

JPAR Real Estate Brand President and CEO of Company Owned Operations Mark Johnson innately understands the big picture in real estate. The renowned businessman and human performance coach can pinpoint the obstacles that hold most agents back and eloquently deliver the words they need to hear most. That ability comes from years of helping real…

Imagine Turn-of-the-Century Dallas From This Porch of This Junius Street Home

By Shelby Skrhak / November 19, 2022 /

Imagine the hollow clip-clops of horse-drawn carriages traveling the freshly-paved roads of Junius Street and just picture old-world Dallas from this porch. The year is 1908 and the city of Dallas is bustling with new development. Mr. William Frank Knox is a railroad man for Gulf Texas & Western Railroad who is eager to put…

@Properties Christie’s International Real Estate Opens New Office in Frisco

By Shelby Skrhak / November 15, 2022 /

Construction wasn’t quite complete on @properties Christie’s International Real Estate’s new office, but that didn’t stop a lively ribbon cutting last week in Frisco. With hard hats in the background behind them, CEO Jerry Mooty Jr. and Principals Piper Young and Marjan Wolford cut the red ceremonial ribbon for its second Texas location in just…