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 April 9, 2021.

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

“Should I sell my house now?”

That is the question of the day in our business. The short answer? Yes. Buoyed by a record-breaking third quarter of 2020 — in which home sales increased 18.4 [...]

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 26, 2021.

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

Except for a couple of angry thunderstorms, we’re having a heck of a beautiful spring in North Texas. You know, Texas has a reputation for being so hot almost all year round — but I’d put our [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]