After a few months away, Grant Hudson has rejoined the Coldwell Banker Realty Global Luxury office in the Park Cities. He’d previously worked with the brokerage for two decades before leaving for a different destination earlier this year. It didn’t take him to have a change of heart.
“I felt like the tools and systems that Coldwell Banker has in place statewide, nationally, and globally, are probably the best in the business,” he said. “I thought, I’m not too far along with this, and I don’t have a lot of signs in the yard at this point, so it would be a really easy switch to go back.”
While he has nothing but good things to say about his time away, he came to realize that he missed a lot of the tools Coldwell Banker has in place for its agents. Specifically, he cites the brokerage’s cost-sharing plan for marketing as well as tools like the Moxie content management system and the design concierge as things that have benefited his business.
Before getting into real estate, Hudson worked as a wine-seller and sommelier in California. A relationship brought him back to Texas, but he wasn’t sure what he would do for a career. Then his friend David Bush, who had gotten licensed 10 years before, encouraged him to get his real estate license and tough it out. He decided to take the advice.
“It was a different game for sure,” Hudson said, “but a lot of things you do to sell in the wine business are the same in real estate.”
He worked for 18 years in the Coldwell Banker Lakewood office before migrating to the Park Cities. His specialties include luxury real estate, investment properties, new developments, condominiums, and relocation services. These days, the overwhelming majority of his business is in central and east Dallas. Next March will mark his twenty-first year in the business.
Hudson says he hope to go at least 12 or 14 years more in real estate. After that, he has designs on getting an Airstream trailer and spending half the year traveling to various state and national parks.
