Icon Global designs and implements strategic, tactical, marketing and sales campaigns for unique, highend ranch’s as well as one of a kind real estate asset’s globally.
Introducing
Icon Global, was founded by complex deal maker and international real estate advisor, Bernard Uechtritz. The Australian native led the global marketing and record sale of the 535,000-acre W.T. Waggoner Ranch in Vernon, Texas, listed at $725 million dollars. The Waggoner is known as the largest ranch holding in North America under one fence.
Other notable deals include the sale of the $240 million Sandow lakes ranch owned by Alcoa Corporation, and the $100 Million -Tomas Ranch for ExxonMobil. Icon sold the $60 million-Barefoot Ranch, then partially owned by Hayman Capital founder and CIO Kyle Bass and Wil Van Lo of Quantum Energy Partners. In 2023 Icon sold the Bradshaw Quarter Horse Ranch owned by sports analyst and co-host of Fox NFL Sunday Terry Bradshaw, listed at $22.5 million.
Icon Global is an internationally connected full-service brokerage firm specializing in significant real estate opportunities, which include Ranch, Industrial, Commercial, Equestrian, Agribusiness, Hospitality and other special assets.
Icon recently launched Icon Black Label Privé in Europe with offices in London, England and Normandy, France – Privé is a private service representing off-market, non-public real estate and unique business assets for discrete clientele across several categories.
BERNARD UECHTRITZ
Photo by Gustav Schmiege
W.T. WAGGONER RANCH
Its Personal
Cancer affects everyone, everywhere, no matter what corner of the world.
I was raised on a cattle ranch as one of ten kids in a hot tropical place, called Papua New Guinea. I’ve also spent a lot of time under the Australian Outback and Texas sun. My father died of cancer. Recently, my brother, sister, and other family have also been affected. They now begin their own fights against this beatable disease. Now, with three generations and 110 in the family, others will surely be affected over time.
So, for Icon Global, this event is not simply a marketing campaign – It is very personal. It’s an opportunity to engage, and to lean in. We are passionate about contributing to the NCHA success for this cause.
We are privileged to have the opportunity to help raise awareness and funds for UT Southwestern Medical Center FW to support cancer research, innovation, comfort and cure through our alignment with the 13,000 members, riders, owners, breeders, trainers, and families of the NCHA, so thank you.
America has provided the platform and opportunity to raise my family, build the Icon Global brand, and in turn, provide expertise in a category of niche real estate which matters most to me and to you. That is, within our roots of ranching and equestrian family lifestyle’s which we all love so deeply.
I cannot think of a better way to spend Thanksgiving then to give. All of you have given by being a part of this success.
Thank you one and all, for giving your personal time and effort to be a part of this event during this time of year.
I am so proud to welcome all of you and to thank the many celebrities, participants, amateur pros, and all spectators and supporters of the 2024 NCHA Celebrity Cutting Spectacular!
Bernard (Bernie) Uechtritz
Polo is a longtime family passion & global networking platform for Icon Global & Bernard Uechtritz.
Winston Churchill once said – Polo is a Passport to the World – and so it is.
Nacho Figueras and Delfina Blaquier are known globally as the foremost individual promoters of Polo and faces of the sport today. It is through our friendship and because of a sport and lifestyle we both love that they have generously committed their personal time to travel from Buenos Aires Argentina to Fort Worth in support of UTSW FW through the NCHA and Icon Global. It is indeed a privilege, and we are grateful to welcome them to Texas.
Nacho Figueras & Bernard Uechtritz faced off at the 2015 World Snow Polo Championship in Aspen and returned as teammates in 2016 for St. Regis.
OLIVIA UECHTRITZ | ICON GLOBAL BRAND AMBASSADOR
THE GOLDEN AGE OF POLO
The Ties of NCHA, AQHA, & POLO...
...Date back to the 1920’s, and the bloodlines of ranch quarter horse greats, such as famed Poco Bueno of the Waggoner, and the Pitchfork’s legacy of Trimmer, Seal Brown, Joe Bailey’s King, and other legends like Highbrow Cat!
The Pitchfork horses are very versatile. They’ve been tried and proven all over the world – in the pasture, rodeo arenas, polo fields and performance arenas.
The NCHA also shares past competitive riders who were also highly competitive Polo Players such as Preston Carter and Kenny McClean.
In 1985 Mclean, played against then HRH Prince Charles in Palm Beach Florida in a match which included Polo Legends Memo & Ruben Gracida.
Present day NCHA connections include Wesley Sinor of Houston and Executive Director of NCHA Jay Winborn.
Your willingness and ability to bond with co-brokers was not only critical to your selection as the lead broker in this case, it was a major reason for the overall success of the effort. You became able to project your enthusiasm onto others, and that, in my opinion, found the right buyer to become the next custodian of this piece of Western history.”
GLEN JOHNSON,
KELLY HART & HALLMAN
W.T. WAGGONER RANCH | $725M
Counsel AB (Buck) Wharton
I can say without equivocation that the sale of the assets of the Estate would not have occurred, in the successful manner it did, without the expertise, skill, and Herculean efforts of Bernie Uechtritz. The details could fill a book, and I would be glad to provide much more detail to anyone who might wish to inquire.”
MIKE BASKERVILLE
For W.T. Waggoner Estate
46th Judicial District
Wilbarger County, TX
I can’t thank you enough for the incredible job you and your team did in helping us sell Barefoot Ranch. It was a unique asset (“one of one” as you like to say) that demanded a bespoke sales process to find just the right buyer. And you delivered!”
S. WIL VANLOH, JR. Founder & CEO
Your professional expertise was an essential element in expediting the sale and negotiating the closing. Throughout we had confidence and trust that the matter would be completed without undue stress and/or problems. We were very pleased with your team and their professionalism in dealing with our attorneys, landman and support staff.”
BEN FORTSON
K.B. CARTER RANCH | $40M
Fortson Oil - Fort Worth, TX
Trustee of the Mattie K. Carter Trust
$725M | W.T. WAGGONER RANCH
$59.9M | BAREFOOT RANCH
On behalf of the entire Anthony family, I want to express our appreciation for the wonderful services you and your organization provided to us in the successful repositioning of our Pecan Plantation property... after you had time to evaluate the uniqueness of the Pecan Plantation community, and how it was perceived by prospective buyers, your imagination and foresight directed us into a course of action that has greatly enhanced our opportunity for a much greater economic return than an outright sale.”
BENJAMIN L. ANTHONY
Pecan Plantation - Granbury, TX | $27M Anthony Orchards
While your media campaign was fantastic, including a Bloomberg television report from the ranch, I think it is your strategic vision that truly sets you apart from your contemporaries...
...perhaps the part I respected most about working with you (literally daily for four months) was your commitment to the integrity of the process...
...it’s a pleasure to call you a good professional friend and I would much rather work with you than against you at any time in the future.”
JOSEPH M. COLEMAN
CMP - KC7 RANCH | $32.5M
Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC
Super Bowl Champion and NFL Hall of Famer
Bradshaw Ranch | $22.5M
Bernie brings a team approach... He sold one of America’s biggest ranches, the Waggoner Ranch, over half million acres, so I figured he could certainly handle mine - and he did!”
Bernie has represented me as a seller in two Texas ranch transactions in 2017 and and another in 2022 involving 9,200 acres.
I have been involved in real estate development and ranching throughout the United States for 48 years. I found Bernie to be a person of the highest integrity, who has deep professional knowledge, and is extremely diligent in execution of all transaction details. I would rate him as one of the top professionals I have dealt with during my enitre career.”
WALT MISCHER Mischer Ranch | Off-market Private Sale
TERRY BRADSHAW FOX TV HOST
$32.5M | KC7 RANCH
SOUTH CREEK RANCH
20 minutes from Dallas
Ferris, TX | 5,400± acres
price by pre-qualified request
CIELO VISTA RANCH
23 miles of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains Includes highest privately-owned peak in the U.S. San Luis, CO | 83,368± deeded acres
BOSQUE MOUNTAIN RANCH
DFW’s Private Hill Country Escape | aka RMR Bosque County, TX | 1.5 hrs - Dallas | 282± acres
$19.9 Million
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