Ryan Houston

Born in Dallas, Ryan Houston is a 7th-generation Texan and attended The St. Mark’s School of Texas during high school. His love for the outdoors originated early while working on his family ranch in Bosque County. This is also where he started to learn about farming and ranching. In 2000, Ryan graduated from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University with a Major in Finance. After SMU, he started a 23-year career in the high-end custom home-building business. His [...]

Born in Dallas, Ryan Houston is a 7th-generation Texan and attended The St. Mark’s School of Texas during high school. His love for the outdoors originated early while working on his family ranch in Bosque County. This is also where he started to learn about farming and ranching. In 2000, Ryan graduated from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University with a Major in Finance. After SMU, he started a 23-year career in the high-end custom home-building business. His primary focus was building within Preston Hollow and the Park Cities of Dallas, but during the latter part of his career, he began to take on custom home projects located on ranches. Through this process, he realized that his true passion was spending time outdoors on these various ranches, and he decided to pursue a full-time career in ranch and land real estate.

Ryan runs a herd of Registered Red and Black Angus cows on his ranch and continually tries to improve it. He also installed his first center pivot irrigation system on the ranch in 2004 to grow turf grass sod. He has grown the operation to three center pivots irrigating 330 acres along the Brazos River. Here, he grows 419 Bermuda, Tiff Tuff Bermuda, and Zeon Zoysia and has supplied the complete renovation of Colonial Country Club, TCU’s football field, and many other marquee projects. He is also partnering with the nonprofit regenerative farm, Giving Tree Acres, by supplying land for their operation on his family’s ranch.

In 2024, Ryan joined TT Ranch Group at Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty to begin his ranch and land sales career. The knowledge and skills he has gained through operating his family’s ranch and his home-building business give him a leg up on his clients looking to buy or sell land. His intimate knowledge of the state of Texas and keen understanding of how to create value from land are just a couple of Ryan's valuable assets.