Before you schedule your first open house and hopefully have prospective buyers lining up outside your door there are easy updates to your home that will help get it into tip-top shape. That way, your home should generate maximum interest, sell quickly and bring you the asking price you would like. Check out our top tips for getting your [...]

Hardwood floors are hugely popular with homebuyers. No secret. But are the days of cherry woods and dark stains over? This just in: Most homebuyers are seeking lighter and brighter hardwood floors in their new homes. Here, discover everything you need to know about the wood floor finishes that are bringing grade-A style, with extra insights from the agents of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty, who always know what’s hot — and what’s not — when it comes to all things [...]

Once you’ve committed to purchasing your first home — or selling your current one — it may feel like the closing date can’t come fast enough. ​​Fortunately for all parties involved, the seemingly lengthy home-buying process timeline — which spans several months in a typical market, not necessarily the hot market we continue to experience in Texas — can give both buyers and sellers time to consider all impulses and decisions. This is, after all, one of the most important [...]

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 [...]

The CEO of the No. 1 luxury brokerage in North Texas explains a real estate word that is suddenly getting a lot of attention.

Each Friday, Robbie Briggs, CEO ofBriggs Freeman Sothebys International Realty, writes about luxury, trends, business and more in the advertising pages of the Mansion section ofThe Wall Street Journal. Below is his letter of September 3, 2021.

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

Inside the real estate world, the acronyms fly every day. We have MLS, TREC, NTREIS, PITI, PUD, even WBFP. (Do you know what that last one [...]