Rumors abound ahead of a big company-wide Ebby Halliday meeting in Frisco today — namely that one of the oldest and most prestigious shingles in regional real estate might be selling.
But company officials are mum, despite a Dallas Morning News article this morning all but insisting that the company is selling to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. The piece, penned by Steve Brown, quotes unnamed insiders. Curiously, even the insiders and company officials quoted only corroborate that a meeting will be held today.
We’ve been working on confirming the rumors ourselves for a while now, but didn’t want to bring anything this big to print until we were absolutely sure.
We contacted Steve Smith, Public Relations Director, at Ebby Halliday this morning, who declined to confirm any of the rumors. We contacted several company representatives last week as well. Full disclosure: Candy’s real estate license is currently held with Ebby Halliday, but she does not sell real estate. And while she will be in attendance at today’s meeting, we have been asked to embargo any information revealed since media is not invited.
So despite the rumors, all that can be wholly substantiated at this point is that there is a meeting today at The Star in Frisco, beginning at 2 p.m. If the rumors are true, we will be at work to try to confirm as quickly as possible the biggest secret in local real estate.
Stay tuned.
