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.

This Addison Condo Offers Cool, Walkable Living Near Kaboom Town and More

By Shelby Skrhak / June 5, 2022 /

I’m big on metaphors so bear with me as I describe this week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans. Lori Ericsson of David Griffin and Company Realtors has the listing for this 1,837-square-foot three-bedroom in Addison’s Meridian Square, a development of condominium flats completed in 2021. Meridian…

Find Stellar Views and True Loft Living in This Rare Double Unit at Historic Canton Lofts

By Shelby Skrhak / June 3, 2022 /

Before Canton Lofts became the pioneer in Farmers Market District living in the 1990s, the former Olive and Myers Manufacturing building was the center of downtown Dallas’s thriving furniture industry until the 1950s. Just to orient you, this historic building at 2220 Canton Street is located in the Farmers Market District just past Good Latimer…

Live Like a New Yorker With Five Times The Space and Walk to Everything

By Shelby Skrhak / June 2, 2022 /

Corners are always the best. Corner office. Corner table. Corner of a flatbread pizza. And corner units like this Farmers Market townhome listed by Linda Lunn of Keller Williams Urban Dallas. “The corner units are the most sought-after homes and this corner unit has one of the largest footprints at InTown Farmers Market,” Lunn says…

The Home You’d Swear You’ve Seen Before Is Actually in Waxahachie

By Shelby Skrhak / May 28, 2022 /

Where have you seen this home? Is it Swiss Avenue gem, or a historic home you’ve driven past in Downtown McKinney. It could be a idyllic estate in the south or a countryside retreat up north. Listing agent Jan Davis of Ebby Halliday Realtors says there’s a reason why this home seems so familiar. “It…

This Story Is About a Home But It’s Also About the Nostalgia of Lochwood Shopping Center

By Shelby Skrhak / May 27, 2022 /

For most home listing features I write, I search the web and the Dallas Morning News archives for historical insights about the home or neighborhood. Just something that’ll give me an interesting hook to build my story. For this week’s very meta Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank, I discovered a…