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 and Associates Real Estate Reaches Record Sales

By Shelby Skrhak / January 11, 2022 /

Rogers Healy and Associates Real Estate, North Texas’ largest independently owned and operated, full-service brokerage, released its 2021 Market Report and announced its greatest year to date. Despite the continuing setbacks from COVID-19, the brokerage’s property sales increased by 177 percent from the year prior. Closing in at one billion dollars in sales for 2021…

Amid Fraud Allegations, Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Network Pulls Series Starring Utah Couple

By Shelby Skrhak / January 9, 2022 /

Home Work, featuring Andy and Candis Meredith, was pulled from the Magnolia Network Friday after several of their former clients alleged that the Utah-based couple scammed them.

A Funky Little Art House in Little Forest Hills

By Shelby Skrhak / January 7, 2022 /

Eustis is a colorful avenue in Little Forest Hills near White Rock Lake, where homes of green, yellow, red, and blue line the curb-less streets. But this week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank, takes eclectic up a notch as it’s known colloquially as the Blue Alamo. Set on nearly a…

Find Peace in This Home in the Heart of Preston Hollow

By Shelby Skrhak / January 6, 2022 /

Peace and quiet — it’s something all of us, but especially the folks who are responsible not just for themselves but for the feeding and care of small co-habiting humans, could use more of. This week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, can provide a surprising amount…

The Architect Index: 5 Essential Dallas Dilbecks

By Shelby Skrhak / January 5, 2022 /

Charles S. Dilbeck was a prolific and eclectic architect in Dallas from 1935 to 1969. While his peers O’Neil Ford and David Williams were besotted with the Hill Country style of limestone farmhouses with metal roofs, Dilbeck was inspired by the ranch houses of the Texas Panhandle. The problem in identifying so many of his creations is…