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.

Texas Holds Strong in 2025’s Top-Selling Master Planned Communities Rankings

By Shelby Skrhak / January 19, 2026 /

Master-planned communities continue to outperform the broader housing market, and Texas — especially the Dallas-Fort Worth region — showed strong representation in RCLCO’s 2025 Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities list. RCLCO’s annual ranking, one of the housing industry’s longest-running benchmarks, measures new-home sales at master-planned communities (MPCs) nationwide and tracks trends shaping where Americans choose to live.…

Assembly Park Adds Office Tenants, Fills Retail as East Plano Redevelopment Continues

By Shelby Skrhak / January 16, 2026 /

Assembly Park, the 26-acre mixed-use development of the former Plano Market Square Mall, is deepening its foothold as a live-work-play hub anchoring East Plano with new office tenants and a fully leased retail section, Triten Real Estate Partners announced recently. As part of east Plano’s ongoing redevelopment, Assembly Park now features about 180,000 square feet…

Dale Hansen Asks What Defines Our City. Candy Evans Says Dallas Is Dirt

By Shelby Skrhak / January 15, 2026 /

Ask five people what defines Dallas and you’ll get five different answers. On Dallas Dialogue with Dale Hansen, CandysDirt.com founder and publisher Candy Evans offered one that ties them all together: real estate. About 20 minutes into the hourlong episode — where we’ve queued it for you — Hansen with his co-hosts welcomed Candy, posing…

Why Glenn Kelman’s Exit Marks a Turning Point for Redfin

By Shelby Skrhak / January 14, 2026 /

Redfin’s longtime CEO Glenn Kelman is stepping down — and on its face, that’s not the kind of executive shuffle that would necessarily rise to the top of CandysDirt.com’s news stack. But context matters. When Rocket Mortgage announced last year that it was acquiring Redfin, the most revealing part of the deal wasn’t the price…

Allie Beth Allman CEO Keith Conlon Brings Local Ownership Back to Brokerage With Equity Deal

By Shelby Skrhak / January 13, 2026 /

Keith Conlon is no longer just running Dallas-based Allie Beth Allman & Associates — he now owns a piece of the rock. The company announced Monday that its president and CEO has made an equity investment in the firm through an unprecedented partnership with HomeServices of America, the Berkshire Hathaway-affiliated company that acquired Allie Beth…