Barrett Linburg
Co-founder and Co-CEO, Savoy Companies
I write about Dallas apartments, Opportunity Zones and running a real estate company on AI.
Hi, I'm Barrett Linburg. I'm in the apartment business in Dallas, Texas, and have been for about 20 years.
I'm the co-founder and Co-CEO of Savoy Companies with my business partner, Seth Bame. Savoy invests in, builds, renovates and manages apartments in Texas. That's all we do.
Most of my work is in North Oak Cliff, just south of downtown Dallas. Since 2020 the Savoy team has renovated old buildings there and built new ones next to them, a few blocks at a time. Along the way I found a part of the tax code called Opportunity Zones. Savoy has since raised $95 million of Opportunity Zone equity for 25 Texas apartment projects, and I explain the tax mechanics on X, where more than 170,000 people follow a guy who posts about a weird part of the tax code. I also edit OZ HQ, a free reference site for OZ investors.
Seth and I are also rebuilding how Savoy works around AI. About 20 of our leaders work with Claude every day. None of it talks to residents or vendors. The point is to make our people better at their jobs, not to replace the person who answers the phone.
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What I'm doing now →- Invest with Savoy: join Savoy Equity Partners' investor list
- Follow along on X: @DallasAptGP
- Learn how Opportunity Zones work: OZ HQ
- The company: Savoy Companies
- Hear the whole story: POWERS #390 with Chris Powers
- Take the driving tour of North Oak Cliff: Opportunity Zones Podcast #380 with Jimmy Atkinson
- Looking for an apartment: livesavoy.com
- How Savoy uses AI: AI for CRE Podcast, episode 11
Recent Posts
View all →Opportunity Zones 2.0 for appraisers
Five things I told appraisers and brokers at the Appraisal Institute's Realty Conference about how OZ deals work and what the second round changes for valuation.
Read →Government tools and incentives, with The Real Estate Council
A panel for The Real Estate Council's Associate Leadership Council on the public tools that make Dallas projects work, and why the next council election matters.
Read →What attracts Opportunity Zone capital to a Texas town
Five things I told Texas economic development directors about getting OZ investors to show up, from the final TEDC and CDFA webinar of 2026.
Read →Texas quietly filed 605 Opportunity Zones. Here is what it did differently from 2018.
Texas sent its new Opportunity Zone map to Treasury with no announcement. The interesting part is not the 605 tracts. It is how they were chosen.
Read →How to sell appreciated stock and pay zero federal tax on the gain
A late-2026 stock sale plus a January 2027 Opportunity Zone investment moves the tax bill to 2032. Pair it with harvested losses and the federal tax can be zero.
Read →Unlocking Opportunity: a playbook for OZ 2.0
Four rules for using the second round of Opportunity Zones for housing, from a panel at TAAHP's Texas Housing Conference.
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