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.

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…

This University Park Home on McFarlin Has Flexibility on Flex

By Shelby Skrhak / January 29, 2022 /

It’s always interesting to jump into the proverbial time machine and look at a home’s history. Take our featured Dave Perry-Miller home at 3507 McFarlin Blvd. for example. This 6,499-square-foot home was built in 1980 as a duplex, but the first owners converted it to a single-family detached home in 1986. As such, there are…

For Marjan Wolford, @properties Was a Perfect Match

By Shelby Skrhak / January 26, 2022 /

Marjan Wolford considers herself a matchmaker for Dallas-area buyers and sellers, but when her friend Jerry Mooty began telling her about @properties Dallas, she felt like this new venture could be “the one.” The Dave Perry-Miller agent joins @properties Dallas as Partner and Director of Market Growth. “I was intrigued by @properties mix of upscale…