Each Friday, Robbie Briggs, president and 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 March 12, 2021.

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

A pandemic may have surprised us, but our agents didnt.

The [...]

Each Friday, Robbie Briggs, president and 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 March 12, 2021.

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

A pandemic may have surprised us, but our agents didn’t.

The numbers are in from Sotheby’s International Realty® and there are some eyebrow-raisers: The entire network — that’s 24,000 agents [...]

Each Friday, Robbie Briggs, president and 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 March 5, 2021.

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

Texas and ice: They don’t mix well.

Just a couple of weeks ago, we were hit with one of the hardest winter storms our state has ever faced. In Dallas and Fort Worth, when the two fronts came through, [...]

Each Friday, Robbie Briggs, president and 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 February 26, 2021.

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

Its awards season in the real estate world the time when the [...]

Each Friday, Robbie Briggs, president and 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 26, 2021.

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

It’s awards season in the real estate world — the time when the numbers have been crunched, the trophies have been polished and the energy is crackling around the brokerage. Who sold the most? Who broke records? Who had their best year [...]

Each Friday, Robbie Briggs, president and 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 19, 2021.

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

As the saying goes: The best never rest.

That absolutely applies to the agents and staff of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty. In one of the wildest markets in our brokerage’s [...]