Grand Lake real estate prices are stable. Waterfront homes on the average have held their value very well thru our national real estate free fall. Of course, there are sales that were out of line and just plain too high that would lose money if sold today but waterfront Grand Lake homes bought on the market have held well. Off the water, subdivision homes have dropped in price from a 2006/2007 high on the average about 10%. Homes purchased in 2009 are steady to in instances slightly higher in 2010.

Interest rates are at all time lows which makes for buying a home great now. I do not see how rates can stay this low very much longer.

There are not many foreclosures in the Grand Lake area but we can find some deals once in awhile where someone really needs to sell a home because of financial problems, job transfer, divorce, or death in family.

Stock prices go up and down. Real estate went wild in some areas of the country and has soured some people’s desire to own and invest in real estate. However, if you look at the Midwest and Oklahoma in particular we did not see prices go sky high and have not seen them come down. We should be poised to see moderate price increases over the next several years as the economy improves. We believe the low prices are here now.

If you are thinking retirement, Oklahoma offers some of the lowest cost of living in the nation. Grand Lake offers moderate four season climate. Grove, the largest city on Grand Lake offers big city health care at the new Integris Grove Hospital, a 58 million dollar facility with wonderful health care providers. There are a number of civic clubs and churches to get involved with and enjoy. You can enjoy fishing, boating, hunting, gardening clubs, investment clubs, and many other activities. Patricia Island Estates in Grove offers golf course living with a special accent on the lake lifestyle. What a combination. On South Grand Lake, The Coves and The Points offer gated upscale living. The Coves features planned activities, golf, clubhouse, swimming pool, tennis, and a small fitness center.

Weekenders can enjoy second homes on Grand Lake. Monkey Island is home to many gated communities with ammenties, lawn care, and other things that make owning a second home carefree. You will enjoy homes in the moderate priced Newport Village, Brighton Bay, St Andrews, St. James, and The Estates. Upscale living in The Chateaus offers a golf and lake lifestyle. The new Shangri La Golf Club is coming along very nice and it is big asset to the Monkey Island area.

If you have your own financial house in order, now is a good time to help yourself with a great moneytary investment as well as a wonderful investment in family and friends by spending special time with them on Grand Lake. If you are looking for that retirement home, you need to check out the Grand Lake area.

Aaron Hughes and Joe Neill are the Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove, OK. We know the Grand Lake MLS and can make your experience thinking and buying Grand Lake less stressful, more inclusive, 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. We would love to hear from you and share Grand Lake with you.

Memorial Day Weekend 2010 is almost here. The weather forecast looks good, the lake is in great shape, the scenry around lake is green and pretty, all that is lacking is you, your family, and friends. Plan now to enjoy Grand Lake and all the fun water activities this weekend. It is the official start of the summer season.

I must warn you, however, that the lake can be addicting. If you don’t now own a lake home you will want one after spending time here. Grand Lake is one of the few lakes you can enjoy without terrible restrictions right down to the water. We offer wonderful gated communities on the lake for a hassle free lake ownership experience or a golf course home with waterfront nearby for a golf and lake lifestyle. There are many fine subdivisions to pick from. South Grand Lake offers The Coves and The Points, both gated communities that offer so much. Monkey Island has several gated communities including Brighton Bay, St. Andrews, The Chateaus, The Estates, Newport Village, Beacon Hill, White Chappel, and St James Place. All of these communities are gated and offer many family activities to enjoy. The Grove area has Meghan Coves, a value priced lake community with many ammenties. The Preserve is the newest gated community in Grove with every lot having the opportunity to purchase a community boat slip. They offer both lakeview and waterfront lots. Patricia Island Estates is not gated but is an elegant golf course community. You can purchase lots with boat slips at Patricia Island also.

Call The Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove to learn more about Grand Lake real estate opportunities. Call Aaron Hughes at 918 801-5645 or email at aaronhughes@remax.net. For Joe Neill call 918 640-3300 or jneill@remax.net. Go to our featured buttton above to see our listings or the MLS button to view all the Grand Lake real estate listings. Look, dream, plan, and call Aaron or Joe for help in making those dreams come true. We know the lake and the Grand Lake MLS listings and can make the buying or selling experience less stressful and fun. We hope to hear from you soon.

The Grand Lake real estate/home market has picked up. Last Friday we closed two homes and showed $700,000-850,000 homes until 6 p.m in Grove’s Buffalo Shores South, Buffalo Shores III, Pointe West, Needle Pointe, and drove them thru Patricia Island Estates. On Saturday we had people looking at gated community condos in the $300,000-350,000 range and bounced back to the big home people and showed them two more homes. Sunday after Church we showed the gated community people another home on Monkey Island. We showed these people homes in The Coves on South Grand Lake and on Monkey Island homes in Hi-Point Estates, Shangri La Estates, Hertiage Point, and Newport Village. We also had two showings by another realtor on our mini ranch listings to the same people. There were ten homes pending on todays Grand Lake MLS hotsheet.

I also had a second call this morning on $600,000-1,000,000 waterfront homes from a gentleman who seems extremely interested in Grand Lake waterfront homes. Everyone in our office has picked up showings and sales in past two weeks.

The market is not red hot but it is a welcome site to see people out looking and buying. The higher priced home market has more people looking than we have seen in quite sometime. We have one under contact, a waterfront home just outside of Grove listed at $774,000. We also have under contract two moderate priced waterfront homes, a Patricia Island Estates golf course home, and a Buffalo Shores North residential home with a swimming pool.

We would love to help you buy or sell a waterfront home, lakeview home, or golf course home on Grand Lake. Search our favorite listing button above and our Grand Lake MLS button above for available properties. Then call The Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove, OK. Call Aaron Hughes at 918 801-5645 or aaronhughes@remax.net or Joe Neill at 918 640-3300 or jneill@remax.net. Now is still a good time to buy. We have several nice listings to choose from, interest rates are low, and you can still get great prices on homes for sale. We hope to hear from you soon.

Want to enjoy the best of both worlds of fun and have a special place for that weekend retreat with something to do year every month of the year. Think Grand Lake! Grand Lake has golf course homes on the lake or near the lake in three special areas.

The Coves, is a gated subdivision on South Grand Lake with many other ammenties including swimming pool, tennis, swings for kids, fitness room, library, and club house as well as the golf course and lake for enjoyment. Yacht Clubs are nearby for dining. Our value home in The Coves is a golf course home Grand Lake MLS #10-200, a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath home with almost 2300 square feet plus a 4 season sun room for only $300,000. This is the best priced golf course home in The Coves. It shows like new and is ready for you today.

Next we go to Monkey Island and The Estates on the Shangri La Golf Club Course. New ownership of the golf course with new club house to be started in early summer 2010 has this location hopping once again. We have a waterfront home with ocean like views offered here, Grand Lake MLS #10-441. This home has a private master suite with glass shower w/2 heads, rock wall, large walkin closet, twin vanities, and washer/dryer at hand. The lower level of this mid entry home is all living with open living, dining, kitchen. A beautiful rock wall with fireplace set off the room and a wall of glass to the ocean like view of Grand Lake brings the outdoors in year round. This fine home is available for $335,000 and has 3 bedrooms/3 baths.

In Grove we find Patricia Island Estates with the Patricia Island Golf Club course. Grove is the largest city on the lake and home of Integris Grove Hospital, a new 58 million facility, shopping, dining, movies, and other activities. You might enjoy Grove as a retirement home community as so many do. We offer on the Patricia Island Golf couse a new builder model, Grand Lake MLS #10-308, a 2700 square foot m/l home with 4 bedrooms/3 baths/2 living areas + office or formal dining for $319,000 or for $349,000 you can also get a 30′ boat slip in the community slips that are close by. Another good buy here is Grand Lake MLS #10-217 a 4 bedroom/3 bath home with great lakeview from front and golf course view from covered back patio. The brick columed entry will welcome guest and the brick laced drive sets the stage for this elegant home priced at only $269,000.

For retirement homes, waterfront homes, lakeview homes, and today’s feature golf course homes call the Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove, OK. For Aaron Hughes call 918 801-5645 or email at aaronhughes@remax.net or for Joe Neill call 918 640-3300 or jneill@remax.net You can also go to our feature list button above and see these homes talked about today or search the entire Grand Lake MLS at our MLS button above. Now is a great time to buy, call us and we will help you find just the right place for your needs and desires.

The Grand Lake Real Estate Market has perked up in fine fashion since warmer weather has arrived.  The last week of March thru this writing April 7, 2009 has seen much more activity in people looking for waterfront homes, retirement homes in Grove OK, and weekend get away homes both lakeview and lake access.

I can only speak for myself and my partner, Aaron Hughes and I have got 5 contracts waiting closing with all being signed in the last week and a half. We did two last Friday which made our day. It seems that everyone in our office has also been busy and several contracts have been turned in. We are also getting showing activity thru our Grand Lake MLS.

What does all this mean, we think we are not in a go/go market but people are back looking and buying homes. We don’t see any big price changes in our market so if you are thinking of buying I would think now while the best selection of waterfront homes, golf course homes, and lake view homes are available. You will enjoy Grand Lake whether for that fulltime retirement home or the weekend home on Grand Lake.

Our Grand Lake Team of Aaron Hughes and Joe Neill would love to be your realtor in the Grand Lake area. To get in touch with us call Aaron at 918 801-5645 or aaronhughes@remax.net or Joe at 918 640-3300 or jneill@remax.net We work the entire Grand Lake area including The Coves and The Points on South Grand Lake and Patricia Island Estates and The Preserve in the Grove area. We also have access to the entire Grand Lake MLS. You can search the Grand Lake MLS at the button above. We hope to hear from you soon.

Have you been wanting to build that dream home at Grand Lake of the Cherokees in NE Oklahoma but just have not found the right waterfront lot to build it on? Look no more, we have a waterfront lot in Pointe West, a small newer upscale home development just outside Grove, OK just listed. This lot has 246.5 feet of waterfront with sunset views like you have not seen. You will enjoy a 180 degree view of the lake looking across the lake to Pointe Marin and the Shangri La Country Club. You can see for miles both North and Westerly views of beautiful Grand Lake.

The lot has a gentle slope and it would be easy to build either a single level home or a walkout basement home here. The drive to the area is nice and you will pass several new very upscale homes. The lot is at the end of the road so it will be very private as well.

You can have a private upscale area on the water and still be close to Grove shopping, health care at the new Integris Grove Hospital that just opened, churches, and civic clubs. This location is excellent for the weekend family home or for a full time retirement home.

You just will have to see the beauty of this lot to realize it is the prime lot available on Grand Lake. I must tell you that I am a licensed realtor and also own this lot, but I think when you look you will agree just how special this location is.

For your showing of this great waterfront Grand Lake lot call me, Joe Neill at 918 640-3300 or jneill@remax.net or my team partner at RE/MAX Grand Lake, Aaron Hughes at 918 801-5645 or aaronhughes@remax.net We also have other special locations of waterfront lots, golf course lots in Patricia Island Estates or The Coves, and lakeview lots. If you would rather not build your dream home we also have several very nice waterfront homes to show also. You can go to our MLS Search Button at the top of this page to Search all our Grand Lake MLS Listings also. We hope to hear from you soon.

Today, January 7, 2010 will find most everyone in the United States in the deep freeze. About all you can do in the cold temps most have is hunker down. But wait, you can get through this mess by thinking spring and summer fun on Grand Lake. Now is the time to be exploring Grand Lake on the internet. You will find deals on boats, sea-doos, lodging, and Grand Lake homes. Homes is our game, and now is truly the time to be searching on the internet for that special waterfront home on Grand Lake or perhaps a golf course home at The Coves or Patricia Island Estates. You can have fun year round at Grand Lake. Take the time now to search the market for homes you can afford. Call your favorite realtor for help in planning your visit to see homes on Grand Lake. We hope you will call Aaron Hughes and Joe Neill, The Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove, OK. We know the MLS listings, the area from Grove to the Dam and back around. We can help you find just the right place for your needs and desires. There will be no high pressure but a search just like we were looking for our own home. We know this is a big ticket purchase and you want to do it right.

Interest rates are low, prices are soft, selection is good–why wait?  Enjoy the cold days this week and next exploring the Grand Lake MLS and thinking Spring and Summer Fun on Grand Lake. It will make winter disappear quicker, you will enjoy the search, and when it thaws out you will know the places you want to see with your realtor (hopefully Aaron and Joe). You will find the Grand Lake MLS Search button at the top of this page. Also our own listings under the favorites button. Enjoy looking and give us a call to see any home on the MLS.

Call Aaron at 918 801-5645 or aaronhughes@remax.net or Joe at 918 640-3300 or jneill@remax.net WE look forward to hearing from you.

Many recent indicators would make one think that now could be the time to buy a retirement home on Grand Lake or Grove, OK, a popular retirement area in NE Oklahoma. On December 29, 2009 the Case Shiller home report showed the national home price in the index up slightly for the month of October. The report showed national prices still a little over 7% lower than October of 2008. The low price in the index came last May and is up 3.4% from that low nation wide. Nation wide home prices are still 30% below the peak in 2006 but we all know much of this damage was in Califorinia, Nevada, and Florida were prices since 2004 had skyrocketed often up 30% or more in one year. Looking back, anyone who has looked at any market would have to know housing prices could not sustain this kind of runup in pricing in one year.

The Grove, OK/Grand Lake area has seen steady but slow price increases over past years and been flat since late 2006. Since the prices did not skyrocket up they will not go down drasticly either. With national home prices starting to recover and our national ecomony upticking slowly we look for 2010 to see modest growth in home sales in the Grand Lake area and Grove, OK the largest city on the lake.

Another reason to think buying now if you will be financing your home is interest rates. Nearly all economist seem to agree that interest rates will go up in 2010 and home loan rates could very easily go from 5% now to 6%+ during 2010.

My last reason is timing historically to get a best buy and that time in lake country is winter. You will always find a better deal during the off season.

Bottom line if you are thinking retirement, I would not put off buying that home whether it be a golf course home at Patricia Island Estates or The Coves or a waterfront home in one of the many fine areas around the lake or a residential home in Grove close to the new 58 million dollar hospital and post office in the Littlegate Addition. There are many great choices for that retirement home with prices starting just under $100,000 and going up.

The Grand Lake Team of Aaron Hughes and Joe Neill at RE/MAX Grand Lake would appreciate the opportunity to be your realtor whether looking for a retirement home or second home at the lake. For Aaron call 918 801-5645 or aaronhughes@remax.net or for Joe call 918 640-3300 or jneill@remax.net We know the area and can make your search more inclusive, less stressful, and fun. We hope to hear from you soon.

Our value home of the week is a 4 bedroom/3 bath home on the Patricia Island Estates golf course in Grove, Oklahoma. Of course, Patricia Island Estates is surrounded on two sides by Grand Lake of the Cherokees in NE Oklahoma. This lodge style home of cedar and rock exterior backs up to the golf course with beautiful trees in the backyard to enjoy. It has a covered patio in the rear and large front porch, both the kind you will want to spend some time enjoying the day.

This home is also available as a golf and lake combo home with the optional purchase of available 30′ boat slip in the community docks at Patricia Island. Downstairs you will find an inviting open floor plan with formal dining, office, or den at the front with everday dining, open kithen, and family room. Split bedrooms find two guest rooms and a bath on one side of home and the master bedroom/bath on the other side. Upstairs you will find a game or theater room with an overlook to the front entrance. You will also find the 4th bedroom or hobby room or office upstairs and another bath.

This is truly a home to enjoy for retirement living with room for married family to come visit or a home to raise your family in. Patricaia Island Estates is Grove’s finest golf and lake subdivision. Grand Lake MLS number 09-287 is listed at $329,000. It comes with a one year warranty, golf course intial fee, and is ready for you today.

You will enjoy four moderate seasons in Grove, OK with all year lake activities and golf to enjoy. Grove is a quaint small town of 6-7000 with 30,000 people within 30 miles of Grove. The new Integris Grove General Hospital will open in January with great doctors and supporting staff and soon to be a new state of the art hospital. You will find churches and civic clubs you will enjoy belonging to and they will welcome newcomers with open arms.

Call the Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove, OK for more information on this week’s value of the week home or for more info on Grand Lake, Patricia Island Estates or Grove, OK. For Aaron Hughes call 918 801-5645 or aaronhughes@remax.net or Joe Neill at 918 640-3300 or jneill@remax.net

We hope to hear from you soon.

There are a few people starting to look at development waterfront land on Grand Lake again. Just today I saw a closing on the Grand Lake MLS for $925,000 for 3 acres with 1000′ shoreline that sits next to a high dollar neighbor in Grove, OK. If you have been thinking about getting ahead of the curve and want to plan a development on Grand Lake, now might be the time to buy the raw land and start planning. As the country comes out of recession, there will be demand for waterfront homes.

We own and offer a nice location for a condo building with 3 acres and 900 feet of shoreline with city water, gas, and electric at property and city sewer on .2 mile away with approval to hook onto it. This property also has 40 boat slips already permitted. The slips will have to be built but permits are in place. This property could be bought for $1,250,000. It is cleared and has had phase 1 and 2 examinations done. It is just outside the city limits of Grove, OK with beautiful waterfront.

We also have listed about 15-20 minutes outside of Grove, 18.98 acres with 919′ of shoreline. This land has pretty tall oak and pine trees with rolling terrian. It is listed for $450,000.

We own and offer a luxury home building lot with ocean like view toward the old Shangri La or new Peninsula Club. This lot five minutes from downtown Grove, OK has 246′ of shoreline and has a gentle slope, just right for a walk out basement home plan. This Pointe West lot may be bought for $350,000.

In Patricia Island Estates we own and offer a very nice building lot with 150′ of waterfront, great view, level lot for most any plan. This lot is across the street from the golf course. It is offered at $250,000.

We also know of many other fine properties on the Grand Lake MLS. For development waterfront property call the guys who know where to go, 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 in Grove, OK.