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 High on the Hill of Kessler Park’s Evergreen Hills Road

By Shelby Skrhak / February 16, 2022 /

Never has a street name been so perfectly descriptive. This week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans takes us to one of Kessler Park’s most iconic streets — Evergreen Hills Drive. A spattering of towering evergreens marks their territory along the hilly and winding streets of this…

The Sweetest Junius Heights Home Has a Sweet History

By Shelby Skrhak / February 16, 2022 /

The Sweetest Home should accompany the sweetest history behind it. This unique home, nominated by listing agent Bess Dickson of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty and voted one of 2021’s The Sweetest by the editors of CandysDirt.com, certainly fits the bill. In the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, this beautiful little Mission Revival was home to…

Rogers Healy’s Beverly Drive Home for Sale and for $8M More, You Can Purchase Lot Next Door, Too

By Shelby Skrhak / February 11, 2022 /

Rogers Healy has listed this 5,479-square-foot French Colonial on Beverly Drive, his own home, for $8 million and is offering the cleared lot next door for an additional $8 million. But this is no ordinary home. It once belonged to Dallas’ first family of real estate.

Get Away to Long Cove’s New Custom Lakefront Homesites and Pondside Canopy Homes

By Shelby Skrhak / February 9, 2022 /

Imagine a getaway you can enjoy year-round. Where there are no airport pat-downs, crowded lines, or idle waiting on the tarmac. Where an hour-ish drive gives way to wide-open spaces and water, trees, and sky greet you on your porch. Now’s a good time to find your year-round family escape at Long Cove on Cedar…

This Geneva Heights Home Has a Sizable Footprint Planted in The Present and The Past

By Shelby Skrhak / February 2, 2022 /

This week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans is a darling little lease listed by Lori Ericsson of David Griffin and Company Realtors — except that this ‘30s Tudor at 5921 Vanderbilt Ave. isn’t little at all. “This house is a lot of square footage for the…