Shelby Skrhak

Shelby is Associate Editor of CandysDirt.com, where she writes and produces 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 the Good Life in Built-to-Last Regents Park Home

By Shelby Skrhak / September 5, 2020 /

When conceptualized in 2003, the 7-unit Regents Park development was “it.” Buying here meant you’d arrived. And these luxury homes continue to represent a pinnacle of personal achievement, as properties surrounding the timeless Mansion on Turtle Creek continue to evolve and enhance the area. Plus, their swanky location and solid commercial (steel and concrete) construction…

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Back to School: Walk to HP Schools From This Spacious Family Home

By Shelby Skrhak / September 4, 2020 /

Homes in Highland Park ISD are always hot commodities for parents looking to get their children into one of the best school districts in the country, but this University Park home at 3451 Shenandoah Street is an easy A. Listed by Rogers Healy of Rogers Healy and Associates, this single-family attached home is located across…

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Pride of Ownership Shows in This Modern Oak Lawn Townhome

By Shelby Skrhak / September 2, 2020 /

Often when a house is a one-owner home, the kitchen or bathrooms need updating or the paint needs to be neutralized. Why? Because time has a way of turning our eyes blind to what updates our home needs. But sometimes there is the rare exception where a home has been meticulously updated over the years…

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Things Are Hot in East Dallas’ Las Casas Neighborhood

By Shelby Skrhak / September 1, 2020 /

This week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank is an updated beauty with large mature trees, located in a hot little pocket of East Dallas. This three-bedroom, two-and-half bath home at 2341 Freeland Way is listed by Bobbie Jo Glover of Compass’ Summit Group for $300,000. The 1968-built home is located…

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This MCM Has a Geodesic Dome in the Backyard, and It’s Everything

By Shelby Skrhak / August 30, 2020 /

This week’s Inwood National Bank Home of the Week ticks all the right boxes. Midcentury modern home, check. Completely and period-sensitively renovated, check. Geodesic dome in the backyard, check. Wait what? Welcome to 8113 Rush Street in Benbrook, located just west of Fort Worth. This four-bedroom, three-bath, 2,431-square-foot home with “party dome” has been a…

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