Each Friday, Robbie Briggs, CEO of Briggs Freeman Sothebys 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 February 11, 2022.

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

There is a real estate blog out there that I bet youll love, even if you arent buying or selling a [...]

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 February 11, 2022.

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

There is a real estate blog out there that I bet you’ll love, even if you aren’t buying or selling a home.

It is briggsfreeman.com/blog, and we work hard filling it with stories from our world, including home-design trends, the hot neighborhoods in North Texas and, yes, insider info if you [...]

If you buy a home in 2022, you have a way to potentially lower your property’s taxable value and save thousands on your property taxes. It’s called a homestead exemption, and it removes part of your home’s value from taxation.

A new law effective January 1, 2022, provides property-tax relief by allowing homebuyers to file for homestead exemptions in the year when they purchase the property, provided it is their primary residence. Previously, new homeowners had to wait until the [...]

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 December 17, 2021.

ANNOUNCING: THE NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDE

No matter how the real estate market — and the world — changes, one thing never will: what the agents of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty know about homes, lifestyles and [...]

Our CEO, Robbie Briggs, has some five-star news today in his weekly letter in the Mansion section of the Wall Street Journal: “Our specialized Relocation Services division just won a prestigious Silver Award from Aires, the corporate-relocation specialists, for achieving perfect scores on every satisfaction survey in the third quarter of 2021. That’s five out of five stars — from every [...]

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 October 29, 2021.

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

Have I got news for you: We are still experiencing an incredibly active housing market.

We have crunched the third quarter’s numbers and they tell quite a story. Whereas some of our markets underperformed a bit [...]