Briggs Freeman Brings Big Skies and City Lights to Uptown Dallas, and More

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty has opened two new Dallas offices, in addition to their core second floor office on Lovers at Devonshire.

And oh let me tell you, Robbie Briggs knows how to throw a party! I have been trying to write this post for four days now since the way too fun opening last Wednesday evening.

The boutique real estate firm’s new digs are in Uptown at 2500 Cedar Springs Road, in the old Kenny Goss art gallery. BFS agent Pogir, an architect who worked in sales and interior design for Cantoni, designed and decked them out in bright, clean white and bold green hues with fabulous furnishings from, of course,  Cantoni. Pogir is married to the lovely Linsey Barnes, also a BFS agent, and daughter of EyeMart Express mogul Dr. Doug Barnes with a fab mansion on Jourdan Way in Old Preston Hollow.

8787 Jourdan Way

Guess what this office will focus on selling? Buying, leasing and development services in the Uptown and downtown Dallas market.

Go catty-corner across the street… and there you have my SecondShelters.com nirvana: an Uptown office to handle all of BFS’s ranch and land division, that’s at 2913 Fairmount. Talk about hog heaven: the firm is listing $100 million in farms and ranch property.

CEO Robbie Briggs says the offices are a way for Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s to re-invent the company and meet client needs in popular urban neighborhoods. I’m told that special tables will be made available for BFS agents to wine and dine clients at Nick & Sams right next door. Me, I wouldn’t want to leave the offices — way too beautiful.

There was an art auction going on, but I was too bust talking with every single Briggs agent and their toney clients — I saw Lewis Shaw, developer of Wilder on the Taylor, as well as every who’s who in town. Besides, the firm is attracting agents like bees to honey: Will Seale, Nancy Guerriero and Janelle Law are at Briggs now, and Jamie Adams, agent to all the sports stars, has been there for months.  Amy Detwiler is now at BFS!

Briggs-Freeman Sothebys has also recently expanded into Tarrant County, with offices in Arlington and Southlake.

Dallas has become one of the most competitive and scrutinized real estate markets in the country , and increasingly so for real estate brokers. First of all, our market is among the healthiest in the nation. Secondly, we have a core of high-powered brokers fighting over the priciest listings in Uptown, Park Cities, Preston Hollow and even Lakewood. Case in point: the merger of Ellen Terry Realtors into Dave Perry-Miller & Associates, an Ebby Halliday Company, Briggs-Freeman’s union with Sotheby’s, and Allie Beth Allman’s continuous push to own the market.

The Ranch team: David Burgher & Jim Brosche