If you need a place for the family retreat or perhaps a place for a special retirement home I would advise you to take a look at Patricia Island Estates on beautiful Grand Lake at Grove, Oklahoma in NE Oklahoma. Grove is a quaint small town on the lake. It offers supurb health care with Integris Grove Hospital and it’s fine roster of doctors that care and add that extra touch to people’s lives when they need it most. January, 2010 will mark the opening of the new hospital facility, a 58 million dollar new from the ground up.

Grove offers small town easy to get acquainted living also. You can travel to Tulsa in an hour and 15 minutes or so and to Joplin, MO in an hour for more extensive shopping and then get back to lake country to enjoy life. Local shopping will get you all the necessary things in life.

You will enjoy Harber Village, the frontier town/musuem and while there be sure to catch lunch at the Back Porch Cafe, a treat you surely will enjoy. Also plan to spend time at Lendonwood Gardens, the one of a kind, multi acre garden with Japanese and English gardens to name two of many you will enjoy as you wander thru the tree lined property.

Grand Lake offers great fishing, boating, water sports, and scenery. The area enjoys true 4 season moderate climate. You will get alittle winter but not much most years and a couple of weeks of hot summer, but most of the year is just a 4 season moderate climate you will enjoy and look forward to each chapter of the year’s seasons.

Northeast Oklahoma offers a low cost of living, stable economy, and housing prices did not sky rocket nor have they tumbled. You can purchase a new home at Patricia Island Estates starting at $199,900 and homes have sold up to a million in the past year. You will find what you need for your family and friends to enjoy with you here. The golf course is great, the views terrific, and all this along the shores of Grand Lake.

Come enjoy golf and lake living with us and find the good life at Patricia Island Estates in Grove, OK. To find out more contact Aaron Hughes at 918 801-5645 or aaronhughes@remax.net or Joe Neill at 918 640-3300 or jneill@remax.net We are the Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake, the real estate leaders on Grand Lake. We hope to hear from you soon.

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It sometimes can be said we cannot go back but maybe this is not as it appears. Last night we went to a concert in Harlingen, Texas by a country music group, The Plummer Family. We are on vacation in South Padre Island, Texas and I ran across an ad for the The Plummer Family concert. Back in the early 1980’s our local Lions Club in Welch, Oklahoma where we formerly lived sponsored The Plummers each winter for a concert. The Plummers then had a theater in Branson, Missouri where they performed except during the winter months. Anyway, I had lost track of The Plummer Family and had not heard them since about 1985. It was just like time had stood still seeing them again. The concert held at a local Winter Texan RV Park was in a building surprising similiar to the community building back in Welch. Yes, the Plummers were older and grayer but the group was still good and had been updated with a 20 something grandson who is a good singer.

This blast to past made me think of how many families used to have the family lake home at Grand Lake and everyone would gather for family retreats from where ever they resided. They would stop time and enjoy family and friends. Many people never lost track of this jewel, Grand Lake in Northeast Oklahoma, and own waterfront homes, golf course homes, or maybe a lakeview home in a gated community. These people know how to enjoy life and remember the simpler times.

You too, can slow down the clock on today’s fast paced world by buying your own Grand Lake retreat to enjoy with family and friends. You can recharge your life battery on a regular basis no matter the season. The calming waters of the lake watching the ducks and geese are great on a winter weekend in front of the fireplace with a good book and a full view of the cold lake out the window. In spring you will see the dogwoods and redbuds come to life and a new lake season starts. Summer will see boating, fishing, sailing, and sea-dooing. Then fall and the changing colors of the trees along the lake are a true canvas of God’s Great World He allows us to enjoy.  Any season is truly a pleasant experience much like the day’s of yesterday with slower paced lives. Again, you can capture this for your second home or a retirement home. Plan a visit to Grand Lake to see for yourself.

For information on the area and real estate listings call the Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake, Aaron Hughes and Joe Neill. You will experience team service to make your buying experience more inclusive, less stressful, and fun. Aaron can be reached at 918 801-5645 or aaronhughes@remax.net   Joe can be reached at 918 640-3300 or jneill@remax.net

You will enjoy searching our featured listings button above or the entire MLS at that button. Grand Lake offers homes in all price ranges and many different locations. We look forward to hearing from you. You might also enjoy our other web site, www.grandlakeokhomes.com

Patricia Island Estates in Grove, Oklahoma on beautiful Grand Lake in NE Oklahoma is Grove’s finest lake and golf lifestyle community. Enjoy golf, tennis, swimming, boating, fishing, sailing all while enjoying your full time home, retirement home, weekend home, golf course home, or waterfront home. You can have the life style so many desire here and at an affordable price. Homes are available from $217,000 to $1,100,000.

Let Grand Lake be your family’s meeting place for the holidays or summer fun. You will be surprised how much you get for the dollar spent here.

Contact the Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove, Aaron Hughes at aaronhughes@remax.net or 918 801-5645 or Joe Neill at jneill@remax.net or 918 640-3300. Follow the links on this page to our featured listings or the MLS button for multi-list offerrings we will be glad to show you.

If you are thinking retirement on a lake, think Grand Lake in Northeast Oklahoma. Grove, OK is the largest town on this beautiful lake. Grove city limits includes about 6,000 people but there are many more along the lake shores. Integris Health, Oklahoma’s largest health care provider is building a new 60 million dollar hospital to replace it’s current one. You can have quality health care, fine churches, great shopping, and enjoy many quaint eating shoppes in Grove and the surrounding lake area.

If you want an active retirement that includes maybe fishing, sailing, sea-dooing, or power boating-Grand Lake is for you. If you like jeeping or trail bikes, we have that too. If you are a hunter, deer abound in the area. Like gardening, you will love volunteering at the Lendonwood Gardens, Grove’s attraction for English Garden or Japanese Garden or one of the other fine gardens at this great attraction.

The local churches and the hospital would love to have more volunteers as would Rotary or Lions Clubs. There are so many things to keep one happy and busy year round. Of course, family and friends will love to visit and enjoy the lake with you.

Home prices are below national averages by a long shot with new homes available from $150,000 on up and resale homes from about $75,000 and up. Patricia Island Estates is Grove’s golf and lake lifestyle homes. New homes are available on the golf course and we have some nice waterfront homes too. The Preserve is the newest waterfront gated community on the lake. There is a home for every budget and taste. Call Aaron Hughes at 918 801-5645 or Joe Neill at 918 640-3300 for more info. We are the Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove, OK. Follow the MLS button on the right for a look at all listings we can sell in the Grand Lake area. The featured list button at top of the page is for our listings.

You will enjoy the Grand Lake lifestyle and the low cost of living in NE Oklahoma.

You can make a trip to Grand Lake and want to never leave and many do just that. The lifestyle of Grand Lake offers something for everyone from summer boating or sailing, riding a sea-doo, bass fishing, or simply laying in a hammock with a good book to read. You will enjoy shopping the quaint shops of Grove to the Dam around the lake. Lunch at one of our many unique diners such as Backporch Cafe at Har-ber Village is always a treat. Speaking of Har-ber Village, it is a great place to visit and enjoy seeing how the pioneers lived. Next stop can be Lendonwood Gardens with all it’s splender of the many gardens to wander about in and enjoy.

Whether you rv at Pine Island Resort or the Bear’s Den or one of our other fine RV Resorts, rent a condo on Monkey Island, do a golf weekend with Patricia Island Estates, buy a weekend home, or settle here for retirement you will find enjoyment for all life styles and stages of life.

Another misnomer is that Grand Lake is for summer fun only, I found that most given the opportunity find the lake to be a true four seasons retreat or retirement heaven. Nothing beats a winter fire in the fireplace, a good book, or movie and looking out at the still waters of the lake. Fall gives a wonderful showcase of God’s paint brush in nature as the tree leaves change to  vivid colors. Of course the Spring brings blooming dogwoods and redbuds and all our dreams of Summer fun once again. It truly is a four season paradise.

Those who move here full time find a friendly mix of people from many many states east to west and north to south that accept new comers with wide open arms. You soon will be as involved or as little involved as you want with your Church, Civic Club, or other Association. Check out the Grand Lake area, you will be pleased with what you find–small town or country living with great shopping, excellent health care, wonderful neighbors, low or no crime rates, and a playground for all seasons.

We just listed a near new four bedroom/3 bath home in the Estates of Carey Bay addition to Grove, Oklahoma. This home is 1947 square feet and is listed at $189,000. It would make an excellent family home with it’s large privacy fenced back yard. This home has a bonus flat screen tv in the living room awaiting the new owner to enjoy. The home also has a 3 car garage.

Home values are steady in the Midwest and Oklahoma in general, now is a good time to buy when you can find a home with all the features in this home under $200,000. Grove, Oklahoma is a great town to call home. The school system is excellent. Grand Lake offers terrific fishing, boating, and sea-dooing or sailing. You can enjoy the good life and raise your family in a smaller city long on family values. Check us out today.

For more information on this fine home go to our featured listings button and/or call Aaron Hughes at 918 801-5645 or Joe Neill at 918 640-3300. We are the Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove, Oklahoma.

Grand Lake, the beautiful Northeast Oklahoma lake that so many people call home for retirement, a special second home retreat, or a family home to those who live and work at the lake has been found by the New York Times. Kit Keifer, a travel editor with the New York Times spent several days in Grove, OK and the Grand Lake area this week gathering information for a story in his series on second home gettaways. The paper will publish in 4-6 weeks the article on Grand Lake. 

Mr. Keifer noticed right away that Grand Lake has a special beauty to it and remarked that with today’s far flung families that Grand Lake would be the perfect middle of the country meeting place for extended families with sons or daughters and their families living on each coast that Grand Lake could be that special spot for the family vacation and holiday gatherings.

Aaron Hughes and myself joined Andy Stewart of Patricia Island Estates to visit with Mr. Keifer about the golf and lake lifestyle homes offered at Patricia Island Estates in Grove and along the shores of Grand Lake. Patricia Island truly offers year round enjoyment of both lake activities including fishing, boating, sailing, sea-dooing and golf. In between you can enjoy quiant shopping and dining around the lake and in Grove. State of the Art Health Care is coming to Grove with construction underway on the new 58 million dollar Integris Grove General Hospital to replace the old facility that has outgrown it’s usefulness. There are many fine qualities of life on Grand Lake and Patricia Island Estates.

Watch for the New York Times article or better yet today follow the link to our web site and MLS or Featured Listings buttons on this site for more information on this great place. Call Aaron Hughes at 918 801-5645 or Joe Neill at 918 640-3300 for your information and to schedule a viewing of homes in the area. We are the Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove, OK.

Patricia Island Estates is Grove, Oklahoma’s finest golf and lake community. Located along the shores of beautiful Grand Lake in Northeast Oklahoma is this wonderful lifestyle community. The Grand Lake Team, Aaron Hughes and Joe Neill, affliated with RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove and Monkey Island is proud to announce that we are listing all homes built by Shoreline, L.L.C. and PMC Homes in Patricia Island.

PMC Homes is a Tulsa based home builder with an excellent reputation for quality, energy star build qualifications, and many green home building features. PMC has teamed with Shoreline, L.L. C. the land owners at Patricia Island to offer this same quality of construction and popular floor plans in Grove at Patricia Island Estates.  PMC Homes has been the  winner the past two years in the Tulsa home market in mid range priced homes in The Tulsa Home Builders competition.

When you buy from Shoreline, L.L.C. the new home has an option not available with existing homes. A 30′ boat slip in the community docks may be purchased at the time of the home purchase for $30,000.

New homes are being finished on the golf course with two homes in the 2700-2800 square foot range being priced at $329,900 including a one year warranty on the home from an independent home warranty company. These homes have all the features expected by today’s home buyer. We also have 1900 square foot home for $229,900 that feels and looks bigger than it’s size.

Enjoy life with golf, fishing, boating and all Grand Lake has to offer for your second home, retirement home, or your family home with a new home at Patricia Island Estates. Call Aaron at 918 801-5645 or Joe at 918 640-3300 today for more information.

Seems like all we hear in the news, is the bad news no matter the topic. The same is true for real estate. The real estate market on Grand Lake in Northeast Oklahoma is not robost in all areas but prices are steady and homes are selling. Time on the market varies to type of property and if priced on the market or priced to catch someone uninformed. Over the Memorial Day holiday a few weeks ago we sold a home that was on the market four hours. It was nice and priced just under $500,000 for a Brighton Bay home on Monkey Island. Two weeks ago we sold a waterfront home in the $235,000 price range in less than two weeks time on market. It was also on Monkey Island. This week we sold a $100,000 fishing cabin right in Grove but on the water in ten days time.

The past two weeks we have also sold two waterfront homes. One just south of Patricia Island was a new beautiful waterfront home priced just under $700,000. The other home was in The Coves on Duck Creek, a really nice gated community with golf course. This home, priced alittle under a million dollars is right on the water at the mouth of Duck Creek.

Property is moving when priced right. You do no have to discount, just price on the market. Grand Lake is a great place to enjoy fishing, boating, and golf. Call Aaron Hughes at 918 801-5645 or Joe Neill at 918 640-3300 to learn more about Grand Lake real estate. We are the Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove and Monkey Island.

Monkey Island on Grand Lake in Northeast Oklahoma is known for fun on the lake, fine dining, and great golf at The Peninsula Resort and Golf Club. There are a number of nice homes for sale most all of the time in this area but it is hard to find a waterfront home priced under $350,000. We have just listed a very nice home on a bluff with a view for as far as you can see. List number 08-2009 just came on the market at $235,000. The home is in very good condition with present owners owning it for about 20 years. It is close to dining, golf, and marinas. The large deck will have room to entertain all your friends,  and family and did I mention the view? It just does not get any better than this one has.

Follow the link to our featured listings and look this one over. Give Aaron Hughes a call at 918 801-5645 or Joe Neill at 918 640-3300 for more info or to schedule your showing. We are the Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove and Monkey Island. Remember Monkey Island is a great place for golf, boating, and fine dining.