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 July 17, 2020.  From My Perspective You’ve got a friend in Texas Perhaps you’ve heard of the friendly Texan? I can confirm that that stereotype is true. Texans — both original ones and adopted ones — are some of the nicest people you [...]

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 a longer version of his letter of July 10, 2020.  FROM MY PERSPECTIVE The father of the bride wore pixels Life doesn’t stop because of COVID-19. It cannot. Sometimes, it makes it harder. My heart goes out to those who have loved ones in the hospital or [...]

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 June 26, 2020.  FROM MY PERSPECTIVE How open houses have changed Things are heating up at Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty. Our brokerage has been adapting at supersonic speed to the way homes are being shown in this new age [...]

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 June 19, 2020.  FROM MY PERSPECTIVE Selling the new luxury For a time there, it looked like luxury had lost its luster. Over the last several years, luxury has been sold, hard, as a feature of almost everything. Goods universally thought of [...]

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 June 12, 2020.  FROM MY PERSPECTIVE Who are we? As matches go, this is as close to perfect as it gets. One of us was founded in 1960, offering the finest homes in the area. The other was founded in 1744, offering the finest possessions in 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 June 5, 2020.  FROM MY PERSPECTIVE A rebound, in more ways than one “We closed on a house yesterday, and we’ll see it for the first time in person tomorrow.” Welcome to an intriguing new facet of our business. That house — a cool [...]