Leslie Purvis

Artis Property Management is lead by Leslie Purvis, a legend in the real estate world in DFW. Leslie has deep roots in the real estate industry. Her grandfather was President of the Texas Association of Realtors, and father was Director of the Real Estate Educators Association.

Leslie learned about education from both of her parents. Her mother, Doris Purvis, was a first-grade school teacher in the Irving Independent School District. Her father, Lynn, was a Physics professor at University of Dallas and Texas Christian University. He founded one of the first real estate proprietary schools licensed by the Texas Real Estate Commission and grew from a single location in Fort Worth to 13 locations across the State of Texas. Leslie taught at each of those locations in her first ten years with Purvis Real Estate Training Institute.

Leslie is the Associate Director of the Center for Real Estate at TCU and a professor of real estate and finance for the M.J. Neeley School of Business. As an experienced professor, she is able to teach technical real estate concepts and apply them to today’s real estate market. She loves teaching millennials, learning how they think and seeing the different ways they look at real estate. She teaches Real Estate Principles, Real Estate Law, Real Estate Valuation and Financial Planning. Leslie is the faculty advisor for the TCU Real Estate Club, as well as undergraduate and graduate real estate case study competition teams. The teams have participated in case study competitions for the International Council of Shopping Centers/ICSC and National Association of Industrial and Office Properties/NAIOP.