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.
We knew the Dallas-Fort Worth real estate market was hot, but get this. WalletHub named Frisco as the best real estate market in the country in its 2021’s Best Real-Estate Markets report released yesterday. The country! The personal-finance website compared 300 cities across two key categories, “Real-Estate Market” and “Affordability & Economic Environment.” Specifically, they…
When you’re building a new home, the options for backyard features can be overwhelming. What’s popular? What’s possible? What materials are readily available here, and not just an obscurity found in Architectural Digest? That’s where local builders like Tony Visconti and Bella Custom Homes come in. Browse their gallery-filled website and social media channels to…
Reservations are filing in for Long Cove’s newest lakefront neighborhood, Eastport. This impressive 1,200-acre lake community moved up its scheduled expansion a full year to meet consumer demand for luxury lake living that’s close to Dallas. The new Eastport neighborhood is located on a tranquil, previously undeveloped inlet on the southeast shores of Cedar Creek…
This week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, lands us in Beckley Club Estates in North Oak Cliff. Phillip Murrell of Compass RE Texas has the listing for 1731 Seevers Avenue, an extensively renovated bungalow just minutes from Bishop Arts. But first, I gotta tell you about…
Listing agent Cynthia Payne Drennan of Dave Perry-Miller calls this 2018 modern craftsman “magazine ready” and she’s right. (Though we’re new media here. We prefer the term “CandysDirt.com ready.”) This week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, is situated at 822 S. Edgefield Drive near North Oak…
