Briggs Freeman Sothebys

Curbed’s House of the Day is One Amazing Oak Lawn Townhome Priced at $10M

By Joanna England / March 4, 2013 /

Curbed’s writeup on 3845 Oak Lawn reads like a rejection letter a hot girl might send a well-intending guy after a bad first date: With the lack of any sort of charming neighborhood, this place might find it hard to achieve its sky-high $10M asking price. At least a glassed-in courtyard on the second floor provides some…

Curbed's House of the Day is One Amazing Oak Lawn Townhome Priced at $10M

By Joanna England / March 4, 2013 /

Curbed’s writeup on 3845 Oak Lawn reads like a rejection letter a hot girl might send a well-intending guy after a bad first date: With the lack of any sort of charming neighborhood, this place might find it hard to achieve its sky-high $10M asking price. At least a glassed-in courtyard on the second floor provides some…

Thursday Three Hundred: The Dream of The 1880s is Alive in McKinney, And This Restored Farmhouse is Proof

By Joanna England / February 21, 2013 /

You’ll have to forgive me for the lame Portlandia reference. I love old homes. They remind me of a time when things were crafted by artisans, built by hand and appreciated. They remind me that, while it feels like we’ve reinvented construction and made old new again, there was nothing really wrong with “old” in…

Who Is the Hardest Working Agent of them All at Briggs Freeman? Her Name is Becky Frey

By Candy Evans / February 18, 2013 /

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty announced its Top Producers for 2012 on Feb. 7 and guess who is the top producer of them all? Ms. Becky Frey. Yep, Becky (who recently sold a home down the street in about a week)  is Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s Top Individual Producer for 2012, having closed more than $62 million real…

Cowboy Up, Y’all: Curbed National Finds Hunter’s Paradise in Celina, Texas

By Joanna England / December 29, 2012 /

Yeehaw, folks. We sometimes joke around about “head rooms” and such here on CandysDirt.com, but this Celina mansion marketed by Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s own Brian Luker and David Bergher has a trophy room that earns a gold star in my book. Curbed National picked up this listing, calling it an “equestrian amusement park.” In fact, this…