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 19, 2021.

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

As places to escape, ranches and land are hotter than ever. Since this same time last year — right as the pandemic became a pandemic — we’ve seen a real upswing in people buying ranches in Texas and [...]

Our agents are known for their experience-based advice. If you or anyone you know have been impacted by February’s winter storms, here are resources we’ve gathered from trusted sources — everything from help with home damages to helping those displaced. Structure-damage funds: Talk with your insurance company first, then [...]

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 October 30, 2020.

Ranches and land have taken on deeper meanings as of late.

We’ve always known about their transformative power to calm and center us — to remind us that the world is bigger than us, no matter how gargantuan our own pressures and anxieties can feel [...]

This is the power of Texans together: With Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty and our esteemed colleagues Martha Turner Sotheby's International Realty in Houston and Kuper Sotheby's International Realty in Austin and San Antonio, we connected $128 million worth of homes to happy new owners — in 2019 alone — purely through referrals to and from each other. Relationships matter. For local expertise and global connections, there is only Sotheby’s International Realty.