Lakefront home for sale at Buffalo Shores South in Grove, OK $479,900

The real estate market at Grand Lake and Grove, OK continues to remain healthy.  More people are moving to the area because of all it has to offer and the relaxed lifesyle. After all, it is all about the lake as written about in a recent New York Times article.  In addition The Wall Street Jounal and Rand McNally has rated the area as one of the top 10 retirement areas in the country. The total tax bite paid by Oklahoma residents ranks among the lowest in the United States and the cost of living is better than many other places. The homes here continue to hold their value and appreciate. Especially the lakefront homes. New developments are popping up everywhere and new home construction is doing well. There are homes available to fit almost every wallet with prices which range from under $200,000  to over $1,000,000.

Lake view home in Wildwood Farms on 1 acre with pool, $239,900

New Listing in Wildwood Farms in Grove, OK at Grand Lake

We just listed a very nice home in Grove, OK at Grand Lake. This beautiful home on a very nice peaceful setting is located in Wildwood Farms on approximately 1 acre with a seasonal lakeview. There are 3 bedrooms plus an office which could be a 4th bedroom, 2 baths, fireplace and an inground swimming pool with a slide. There pool area is privacy fenced and professionally landscaped. The owner is only asking $239,000.  Wildwood farms is just a couple minutes from the Patricia Island golf course and the Quail Run golf course. The Grand Lake Real Estate market has remained very good even with all the things going on with our economy.

You can see all the MLS listings for the Grand Lake area on a map which we created showing the relative location to Grand Lake. It is a huge lake being over 60 miles long and having 1,300 miles of shoreline. The area has been named by the Wall Street Journal and Rand McNally as one of th top retirement areas in the country. There was also a recent article by the New York Times about Grove and Grand Lake.

Dave & Debbie Wagenblatt, The Get “Grand” Results Team©, are top producing Realtors® with REMAX Executives at Grand lake, OK. To learn more about the Grand Lake area and community visit their web site www.SurfGrandLake.com

Patricia Island Estates New Listing with Lake View and Golf Course Frontage

A new listing is showing up on the Grand Lake area MLS for a beautiful home in Grove, Oklahoma. You can have the best of both worlds with both Golf… and Grand Lake to Play. This home is located in one of the better golfing communities, Patricia Island Estates.

Lakefront home on a point is available

Are you planning ahead? Now is the time to look to the future and find the lakefront home of your dreams at Grand Lake in Oklahoma. Bring the family together for fun in the sun and all the water sports and activities the lake can provide. Whether it is your first lake home or you are going to find a better property, start now and beat the competition. Competition in today’s real estate market? Yes, when it comes to finding the right lakefront retreat on Grand Lake at the right price. It is a great investment because it hasn’t been affected by the down turn in other areas. Make an investment in yourself and in your family. Create memories everyone wil treasure for a life time.

Not familiar with Grand Lake? Check out the Official Grand Lake Website and you’ll understand.

Luxury Waterfront home at the Shangri-la Chateaus, Grand Lake

It’s over 60 miles long and has 1,300 miles of shoreline. It streches from the south end at Langley and Disney, OK up through Ketchum, Bird Island, Bernice, Monkey Island, Grove and up to the Wyandotte area. You can boat to restaurants, swim, ski, fish, see all kinds of wild life, hike, ride horses, visit state parks and the list goes on and on. People come here from all over the country and it is a 4 hour or less drive from Kansas City, Branson, Wichita, Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Northwest Arkansas. Here is a map of Grand Lake which you can also click on areas to see what is currently available on the market. Even see some of the gated communities like the Coves at Bird Island, Brighton Bay and Newport Village on Monkey Island or Patricia Island Estates in Grove.

There are also some articles here about Monkey Island and Grove, OK and related information so have fun browsing.

Dave & Debbie Wagenblatt, The Get “Grand” Results Team©, are top producing Realtors® with REMAX Executives at Grand lake, OK. To learn more about the Grand Lake area and community visit their web site www.SurfGrandLake.com

Havens | Grove, Okla.
Published in the New York Times

A Place That’s All About the Lake

Published: December 19, 2008

W. C. FIELDS, whose position on water was that he never touched the stuff, would feel supremely left out at Grand Lake o’ the Cherokees, which covers 46,500 acres north, south and west of Grove, Okla. Grand Lake, as the locals call it, favors participants over spectators; its boats are big-motored; and the docks that shelter them are tin-roofed and massive.

“The development on Grand Lake is different from some of the other lakes down here regulated by the Corps of Engineers in regard to access to water, where you can place a dock, where you can trim brush,” said Alden Buerge, a banker from Joplin, Mo., who bought a 3,000-square-foot second home near Grove in 2002. “Grand Lake is just much more open. It’s a place to go and have fun on the water.”

There’s no question that Grove, in northeast Oklahoma, is all about Grand Lake, a fishing hot spot full of crappies, catfish and bass. Some of the nation’s top professional fishermen cruised its coves in 2006 and 2007 in the Bassmaster Elite Series’ Sooner Run tournament. But Grand Lake is also home to the casual angler who just wants to jam a chunk of hot dog on a hook in hopes of teasing out a lunker catfish.

Grove is also just two and a half hours away from Branson, Mo., the country music tourist mecca, and that proximity was a lure for the country picker Roy Clark, one of the stars of the television show “Hee Haw.”

“This place filled a lot of things in us we weren’t even aware of,” said Mr. Clark, who lives in Tulsa and has a theater in Branson and a second home in Grove that he bought in 2005. “I can go out my front door and be right on the water, and go out my back door and step onto a championship golf course.”

Mr. Clark added: “Our main home’s in Tulsa, and sometimes when we’re here we have mixed emotions, like we’re forsaking our home in Tulsa. But when we’re in Tulsa we say, ‘How long has it been since we’ve been to the lake?’ And we’re right back here again.”

Grove’s location in the south-central United States means that it attracts many second-home buyers from Dallas, St. Louis and Wichita, Kan. — and their far-flung children.

“We did this a lot for the kids and grandkids,” said Gary Sparks, a Tulsa architect, who spent eight months making the 2,500-square-foot Grand Lake home he bought in 2007 for $230,000 more open and water-friendly. “We have kids in Kansas City, and it’s a great middle ground between the families. We’re all water freaks — four of our six grandchildren live in the water — so it’s just perfect.”

The Scene

The golf courses are getting better in and around Grove, the grape vines are maturing at the local wineries, and sailboats fill the slips at the two yacht clubs. Local residents say they welcome Grove’s transition from an eye-blink into a resort town. What they don’t want, though, is for Grove and Grand Lake to become an extension of Branson and Lake of the Ozarks.

“People want to get away from that hustle and bustle,” said Chuck Perry, a longtime resident and a real estate agent. “And when they do, they come here.”

Away from the lake, it’s not uncommon to see a pasture on one side of the road and a golf-and-new-homes development on the other. The remnants of the old Route 66 run west of town to Tulsa, exciting the nostalgia-seekers.

Living on Grand Lake means being out on the water doing something — fishing, pontooning, water-skiing, Jet-Skiing, tubing, sailing — with only the briefest breaks to run into town for ribs and potato salad. As development continues along the lake’s 1,300 miles of shoreline, Grove is increasingly the hub that second-home residents run to.

“Grove is really a town in transition,” Mr. Perry said.

When the construction of the Pensacola Dam created Grand Lake in 1940, Grove was what Joe Neill, another local agent, called “just a poor, red-dirt town.”

But as demand for lake frontage accelerated over the last decade, Grove morphed into a resort and second-home community. Its badges of gentrification include Gourmet’s, a high-end food and kitchen equipment store, and the Wax Bucket Candle and Gift Shop. There are also good restaurants like Raggedy’s for soup and sandwiches — though the doughnut shop, the corner cafe and the Grand Lake Sports Center (which advertises three types of bait: live, dead and fake) still rule the day.
There are the conversation-minded fishermen who spend November and December sitting on theater chairs in the heated fishing shack at the Four Seasons Resort, owned by Bill and Sharon Davis, and dunking for crappies through a open well in the floor.

Grove, Okla. “We probably pulled more fish out of that hole than there are in the whole lake,” Mr. Davis said, with a knowing nod to crappies’ powers of regeneration.
Pros

The lake and its surroundings have a rustic peacefulness that encourages spending the morning on a sun-warmed lawn chair, watching blue herons stalk along a dock shaded by a rusty Phillips 66 sign. And it doesn’t often freeze in winter — Grove’s average low temperature in January is 35 degrees — so it’s possible to be on the water year-round.

Cons

There’s not much in the way of fine-dining options, and the surrounding region is very rural. It takes about an hour and a half to get to Tulsa.

The Real Estate Market

New construction on and around Grand Lake takes several forms: tear-downs of older homes on the lake to build new and larger properties; new construction on vacant land; or buying in a residential development, often with a golf course in the mix. Such communities can be found on Bird Island, Monkey Island and Patricia Island, which are all actually peninsulas.

Though the lake is about 80 percent developed, land on the lakeshore is relatively affordable. “You can get a real nice three-bedroom home with 100 feet of shoreline, a dock with a 30-foot slip and a 20-foot slip and a couple of WaveRunner lifts, all for about $500,000,” said Jeff Savage, an agent with Re/Max Grand Lake.

The median price for a waterfront house is currently about $311,000, Mr. Savage said, and waterfront lots average about $146,000. Recent sales included a two-year-old, 3,800-square-foot house with four bedrooms, three baths and a view of a Grand Lake estuary that sold for $410,000.

The market has cooled in 2008, according to statistics compiled by Mr. Savage. The number of residential properties sold in the Grove area fell by 14 percent, though the average sale price rose 16 percent. “The higher-priced homes are still selling,” he said. “Thirty-seven homes over $500,000 sold this year. Seven were over $1 million.”

Mr. Savage added: “A lot of times people who have homes on the market take them off the market for November and December, so their families can spend Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s on the lake. Then February, March, they put them back on the market.”

Penny Sternbeck, a local real estate agent transplanted from California, said: “We get an awful lot of people who come here from California. What costs $500,000 there costs $250,000 here.”

LAY OF THE LAND

POPULATION 6,011, according to a 2006 Census Bureau estimate.

SIZE 9.1 square miles.

WHERE Grove is near the Missouri border, and is a one-and-a-half-hour drive northeast from Tulsa, Okla.

WHO’S BUYING Many people from the south-central United States, including Dallas and St. Louis. But the town also attracts buyers from as far away as California and New Jersey.

WHILE YOU’RE LOOKING Rooms at the Best Western TimberRidge Inn (120 West 18th Street, Grove, Okla.; 918-786-6900; bestwestern.com/timberridgeinn) range from $77 to $86 a night.

Dave & Debbie Wagenblatt, The Get “Grand” Results Team©, are top producing Realtors® with REMAX Executives at Grand lake, OK. To learn more about the Grand Lake area and community visit their web site www.SurfGrandLake.com

Further note form Dave… althougth Grove over all property sales were down as Mr. Savage mentioned the lakefront home market gas remained strong and is expected to continue. After all the article said it. ” A Place that’s all about the Lake! Also the fine dining of course would not compare to NYC… Yet.

Grand Lake Sparkles at Christmas

Christmas at Grand Lake in Oklahoma is like no other because you are of course at the lake. Sure we have the traditional parades and decorations seen all across the country but there’s more. Besides the parade down the streets of the towns around Grand Lake we have a parade of lights where we don’t decorate floats. We decorate boats. And of course you can drive around and see all the pretty homes with christmas lights, but can you ride around the lake and see all the show from the water? Wow! This is fun. Then we have the Polar Bear Plunge where people jump in the lake in December. No, they are not totally crazy. They are like most all “Grand Lakers” because of their big, generous hearts and capacity for giving. The Polar Bear Plunge at the Arrowhead Marina is a fund raiser to help others, just as celebrations like the Giveth & Receiveth party at The Shebang or the Toys for Tots campaign at the Road Hog Saloon.  As a matter of fact these type of activities occur all year long, so in a sense if you’re lucky enough to be at Grand Lake, it’s like Christmas all year and you’re lucky enough. So come and join us at Grand Lake. Oklahoma’s favorite place to have fun and live life to it’s fullest.

We wish you Merry Christmas!

Dave & Debbie Wagenblatt, The Get “Grand” Results Team©, are top producing Realtors® with REMAX Executives at Grand lake, OK. To learn more about the Grand Lake area and community visit their web site www.SurfGrandLake.com

Lakeside View of Grand Lake Home

Here’s a new waterfront listing in Grove, OK with a great view of Grand Lake and approximately 130 ‘ of lakefront. This Grand Lake home has lots of space including 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2 living areas and a 2 car garage. I almost forgot there is also a separate office or music room and your own private dock. Wow! From the living area there is lots of glass showcasing a panoramic view of Grand Lake and the gentle slope to your dock. The main level has the master bedroom, kitchen, living room and dining area, while the lower level walk out basement has a second living area and 3 bedrooms. The waterfront home has 2,908 SF so there is plenty of space for family and friends to entertain and enjoy the lake. All this for only $432,000.

 Grove is located in Northeast Oklahoma appoximatly 90 minutes from Tulsa, 90 minutes from Bentonville Arkansas, and 50 minutes from Joplin, MO. Grove is the main city on Grand Lake. The lake is over 60 miles long and has 1,300 miles of shoreline.  As you can imagine it is a wonderful area for retirement, raising families and enjoy the activities associated with the lake. Museums, several state parks, boating, golf and on and on. Check it out online from some of our many websites about Grand Lake and the area.

 WITH TODAY’S TECHNOLOGY THERE ARE TOOLS which are available to help you find what you are looking for online. In this case we are talking about real estate at Grand Lake located in Northeast Oklahoma. See the following notice and I’ll explain a little more after that.

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By signing up for this free service, you’ll have many of the same search tools that the local Realtor has for the Grand Lake area. Price, bedrooms, baths, size, waterfront, golf course frontage and so on. Since Grand lake is so large several cities are in the search as well. So if you want a certain area you can ask for Monkey Island, Grove, Ketchum, Langley and more. We can help you with areas should you need to narrow it further. All this can be done at your covenience at any time of day. This doesn’t eliminate your need for a Realtor to help because local knowledge and experience is so valuable. Read some other articles about being careful.

For more information about Grand Lake OK Real Estate, please contact Dave and Debbie Wagenblatt at 918.257.8381 or email them directly at davewagenblatt@remax.net.

Dave & Debbie Wagenblatt, The Get “Grand” Results Team©, are top producing Realtors® with REMAX Executives at Grand lake, OK. To learn more about the Grand Lake area and community visit their web site www.SurfGrandLake.com or www.OfficialGrandLake.com.

Surise at Grand Lake in the Monkey Island Area

Every week there is a “brokers’ open” where local Realtors preview open houses for sale. This helps them stay on top of the Grand Lake real estate market with addional first hand knowledge. There were a lot of them this week with about 10 homes on Monkey Island opened by Coldwell Banker Shangri-La Realty and  serveral more held open by RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove, OK. On Monkey Island there were homes at Shangri-La Estates, Hi-Point, Vista Towers, St. Andrews, Shangri-La Chateaus and Brighton Bay. All of these homes are in gated communities and covered a price range from $175,000 to around $700,000. We didn’t hold our listings open this week but we have several, with one at Brighton Bay, one at Newport Village and two not in a gated community at Deer Valley and Port Duncan.

Waterfront or lake front homes continue to be in demand here at Grand Lake. Prices have continued to rise consistently over the years as more and more people discover this fantastic lake in Northeastern Oklahoma. to learn more go to OfficialGrandLake.com.

Dave & Debbie Wagenblatt, The Get “Grand” Results Team©, are top producing Realtors® with REMAX Executives at Grand lake, OK. To learn more about the Grand Lake area and community visit their web site www.SurfGrandLake.com