Each Friday, Robbie Briggs, CEO of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty, writes about luxury, trends, business and more in the advertising pages of the Mansion section of The Wall Street Journal. Below is his letter of September 24, 2021.

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

It’s hard to think of Texas without thinking of snow-covered mountains and ski chalets. 

Allow me to explain. Texans and snowy states — like Colorado, Wyoming and Utah — were made for each other. It speaks [...]