Summer is here and now is the time to be enjoying family and friends time at Grand Lake in NE Oklahoma. Now is also a good time to be buying that second home on Grand Lake, a retirement home on the lake for family to come see you at, or a family home on the lake to live and work in paradise. We have a good selection of waterfront homes in our listings as well as the Grand Lake MLS listings. Prices are good and interest rates are low, so why tarry?

If you want a waterfront home on Monkey Island in a gated community or in Grove at Patricia Island, Buffalo Shores, Governors Retreat, or Lighthouse Harbor we have it. If you like South Grand Lake, there are nice listings in The Coves or The Points as well as other neighborhoods around the lake.

Call The Grand Lake Team for information on Grand Lake Real Estate and waterfront homes. For Aaron Hughes call 918 801-5645 or aaronhughes@remax.net. For Joe Neill call 918 640-3300 or jneill@remax.net. You can find us at RE/MAX Grand Lake 2330 South Main, Grove, Oklahoma. We hope to see or hear from you soon.

We are working the Grove Home & Garden Show this weekend. In the booth next to our RE/MAX Grand Lake Hughes & Neill Grand Lake Team booth is The First National Bank of Grove and Vinita, OK. I have talked at length with two of their loan officers about the economy on Grand Lake. Both reported at different times that they had worked the Tulsa Boat Show last week arranging financing for boats for several of the large boat dealers. I ask how boat sales went and they both reported that large boats were selling great and smaller boats were selling but at a lessor pace than the past few years. Total dollar sales of boats sold by three of their dealers was as good as past couple of years and well above expectations. The economy certainly has rough spots everywhere but Oklahoma and the Midwestern States in general have a much better economy than the Coastal States.

We are just starting our real estate season but so far internet traffic and calls are well on the same pace as most years. WE don’t want to discount all the economic woes of our nation but also feel so much of the time all we hear is BAD NEWS. Well, there is also good news to be found and Grand Lake has a lot of GOOD NEWS. Grove, the largest city on the lake is getting a brand new 58 million dollar hospital. Villas Del Lago and  Baycrest Village are two new housing developments, the Villas are waterfront on the South Grand Lake area and Baycrest is a residential home development in Grove. Patricia Island of Grove continues to do well as does The Coves of South Grand Lake.

If your personal economic situation is doing all right, now is a good time to buy real estate on Grand Lake. Prices are steady in general but there are some bargains to be found, as is usually the case. We can help you find just the right place for your needs, desires, and pocketbook. Call The Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake, Aaron Hughes and Joe Neill. For Aaron 918 801-5645 or aaronhughes@remax.net For Joe 918 640-3300 or jneill@remax.net  We hope to hear from you soon.

Let’s continue to talk about the economy, everyone else is. That is a huge part of our nation’s problem, everytime we turn on the tv, radio, or read a newspaper we are hit with how bad everything is. Well, it is bad for some people in certain parts of the country, but it is not bad every where. I feel for the ones that have lost jobs and have financial problems. The best thing we can do to help those hurting is to not get caught up in the news and talk all of us into a depression. If your financial house is in order and you are doing well in your business or job then go ahead and spend prudentally as you always do. It is ok to buy a waterfront home on Grand Lake or a golf course home at Patricia Island in Grove, OK for a golf and lake lifestyle at Grand Lake.

We have some nice listings to choose from, interest rates are at all time lows, you can help the economy by buying, so why not call today and get started on your family retreat, retirement home, or a full time family home at Grand Lake. Click on the MLS button at this site for all the Grand Lake area listings. Go to our favorite listings and see our special listings. Contact Aaron Hughes at aaronhughes@remax.net or 918 801-5645 or Joe Neill at jneill@remax.net or 918 640-3300. We are The Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove, OK. We know the area, the MLS, and can make your property search less stressful, more inclusive, and fun. We hope to hear from you soon.

We hear many stories of gloom and doom concerning real estate. If you really look at the national market, the main problems are confined to a few states including Florida, California, Nevada, and Michigan. Michigan’s problems stem from the massive layoffs in auto related industries. The other three states saw home values skyrocket with speculators causing many of the problems. The midwest market including Oklahoma and Grand Lake has seen a steady price increase in the single digits over the past several years. Our market is not robost, but homes are selling at steady prices. Consumer confidence has hurt all areas including Oklahoma, but the economy is stable and ok in Oklahoma. We are open and doing business in all areas including real estate in the Grand Lake/Grove, OK area.

Homes closed on our MLS list this morning, October 13, 2008, include two Patricia Island Estates waterfront homes and a Melody Point life style home. One Patricia Island waterfront is 4469 square and sold for $951,000. The other waterfront at Patricia Island is 4258 square feet and sold for $667,000. The Melody Point home is 3552 square feet  and includes the many ammenties of Melody Point but no boat slip  and sold for $599,000. This home was not on the lake front but has many custom features on the interior. A starter home sold on Cherokee Street sold new for $79,000 without a garage.

Please visit www.grandlakeokhomes.com to view current listings in the Grand Lake area. If you would like to own a second home, waterfront home, golf course home, or move to Grand Lake/Grove area for retirement or to raise a family now is a good time to buy. Interest rates are low, fall is sale time every year on the lake, and homes while not at firesale prices are priced fairly. Don’t put off your life, you can buy now.

Call Aaron Hughes at 918 801-5645 or Joe Neill at 918 640-3300 for more information or to set up an appointment to view properties. We are the Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove.

We just listed a year old home that owner must regretfully sell to accept new job opportunity out of state. This like new custom home is located on a nice treed lot in a quiet neighborhood just south of Grove’s Patricia Island. Grand Lake is just a short distance away to enjoy all lake and boating activities. You will love the location and yard of this fine home. The 2800 square feet m/l includes your choice of 4 bedrooms or 3 bedrooms and media room with two full baths and a half bath, powder room. You can use the room with french doors for an office or formal dining room.

The master suite includes a large bedroom with room for sitting or workout area. The master bath includes whirlpool tub, his and her sinks, tiled shower with unique lighting in the built in seat, and a huge master closet. The closet has access to the utility room for ease of wash and hang up for today’s busy homeowners. The large fourth bedroom or media room is upstairs. The other two kids or guest bedrooms are on the opposite side of the home from the master.

The kitchen, dining, and great room areas are open and include a wood burning fireplace. The cabinets are a beautiful semi dark stained with Corian type counters in a light almond color with flecks of black. The design of the kitchen is just great and includes a very large walkin pantry. The back porch is screened and also has an additional outdoor patio for family enjoyment.

You will fall in love with Grove, OK and Grand Lake to raise a family or a retirement home. In retirement the kids and grandkids will always be scheduling a trip to see you and enjoy the activities of Grand Lake. It is just a great place to live. You need to check this area out.

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. Check out this list number 08-2524 in our featured listings button area.

Grand Lake and Grove, OK in Northeast Oklahoma is a great area for a retirement home. The small and quaint community of Grove is a favorite place for many new retirees coming from both coast and several from colder northern states. We offer waterfront homes, lakeview homes, golf course homes, 55+ condo projects, and a home on a regular city block. There are homes available for every budget with new homes available from $129,000 on the MLS to over a million dollars.

Patricia Island is a favorite place in Grove to buy a home on the golf course with lake views. The Grand Lake Team of Aaron Hughes and Joe Neill of RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove represents the owners of Patricia Island Estates and Golf Club with new homes available from $229,900. We offer lots beginning at $27,000 and up to $60,000 for someone who wants a custom home. Boat slips may be purchased with some of the homes.

The Preserve is a new location at the south end of Grove that offers a gated community with waterfront and lakeview lots ready to build on. Oakhill Estates, Fairstone Beach, and Pointe West are close to The Preserve and we have waterfront homes, waterfront lots, and lakeview lots as well as three homes off the water in the area that is all new.

You will enjoy the clubs and churches, shopping and dining around Grand Lake and Grove. Health care is foremost with Integris Health recently starting a brand new 58 million dollar hospital to replace the ageing old hospital.

If you want to be close to the weekend action, you might enjoy a home in one of the many gated communities of Monkey Island. They offer many ammenties and care of your home and yard in many of the locations.

A moderate four season climate is found at Grand Lake. You will enjoy all seasons but will love boating, fishing, sailing, and other water sports in the summer months.

Call Aaron Hughes at 918 801-5645 or Joe Neill at 918 640-3300 to learn more.

Timing is everything when buying whether it be a new car or a house on Grand Lake in Northeast Oklahoma. We are having a great year selling Grand Lake homes but August is here and August is "White Sale" month at the lake. Buyers with families are getting ready for school to start. Retired buyers many times think it is too hot to get out and look at homes in August. Sellers on the other hand, are afraid they have missed the "lake season" and some will play "Lets Make A Deal" in August to get their lake home sold.

If you have been holding back on that home you would love to own on Monkey Island, at The Coves, or perhaps on Patricia Island in Grove, now might just be the time to brave some August heat and buy that home. We are not suffering from the national downturn in real estate prices but the summer sale month comes each year. Get your deal now.

Aaron Hughes at 918 801-5645 and Joe Neill at 918 640-3300 are the Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove and Monkey Island on Grand Lake. We have listings and access to the entire MLS that will offer that waterfront home, lakeview home, or golf course home you want. We have the locations for retirement homes, second homes, or a great family home.

We offer property all over Grand Lake including The Preserve, The Points,  Brighton Bay or St. Andrews on Monkey Island, or The Chateaus, also on Monkey Island. Search our MLS button and our featured listings and give us a call. This is "Sale Month" on Grand Lake, don’t miss your deal.

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.

June 19, 2008 RE/MAX Grand Lake hosted The Grand Lake Real Estate Symposium at Royal Bay Theater in Grove, Oklahoma. The event was attended by about 100 Grand Lake area business people, bankers, builders, and developers. The meeting reviewed projects around the lake, looked at sales over the past 4 years, and the general economy in the lake area.

Infastructure is important to people looking to invest in retirement homes, second homes, waterfront homes, or investment property. Grand Lake does have projects completed, ongoing, and starting to fill the various needs in the lake area. The crown of all projects is the new Integris Grove General Hospital which is starting actual dirt work for construction of a brand new 58 million dollar state of the art hospital in Grove next week.

Craig General Hospital in Vinita, Oklahoma has the Grand Lake Medical Park at Langley for minor emergent care and visting specialty clinics. This facility has been open a couple of years and now they have another like it almost finished at the Monkey Island entry on Highway 125.

The lake area now has 3 surfaced airparks in Ketchum, Monkey Island, and Grove for weekenders who fly to the lake.

Modern waste treatment plants are on Monkey Island and Grove. Monkey Island also is adding to it’s water system with added wells and storage for water.

Schools are a high priorty and Grove has a brand new Early Learning Center to compliment it’s fine high school and middle schools.

Delaware County has a small tax to support the "Green Dumpster" program for trash disposal. The green dumpsters are placed around the county for easy access to dump your trash property and not along the road.

Grove also just finished Phase 1 of a new downtown re-vitalization project with new sidewalks and street lamps. Grove also has a new post office.

Road work is beginning soon on the Highway 59-5 lane project from Sailboat Bridge to Downtown. Utilities have just been completed for the new highway project. The south end of town has a 5 lane project finished a couple of years ago.

There has been several new businesses come to the lake area in the past few years including Lowes and Walgreens. There are several new home developments under way and more in the planning stages including Crown Pointe condos on Monkey Island and the Vilas Del Lago in the Cleora area. The Preserve is a new gated community nearing completion of roads and utilities and currently selling waterfront and lake view lots with boat slips at the south end of Grove on the lake.

The Grottos new home development near Ketchum is coming along nicely and offers terrific views of the dam. Emilia Estates is a new development east of Ketchum on the lake ready for new homes to be built. The Coves is enjoying a nice building spree of new homes on interior or golf course lots. The Vintage near Cleora just stared a new phase of this popular development.

The Peninsula continues to work toward its multi-million dollar plans for a new hotel on the tip of Monkey Island on the grounds of the former Shangri La. The Delaware County Commissioners will vote soon on a Tif District property tax proposal for The Peninsula.

Patricia Island, Grove’s finest water and golf development continues to build and sell homes around its popular golf course. Governors Retreat II is also starting lot sales on their new home development south of Grove.

Grand Lake has the infastructure, the churches and civic clubs, a great casual lifestyle, beautiful views, and several new home developments to choose your place for a retirement home, get away retreat, second home, or waterfront home.

Call Aaron Hughes at 918 801-5645 or Joe Neill at 918 640-3300 for information on Grand Lake real estate. We are the Grand Lake Team at RE/MAX Grand Lake in Grove and Monkey Island. Follow the link in this website to our real estate web site and MLS search.

Saturday June 7 from 10am-4 pm and Sunday June 8 from Noon to 4 pm come to Grove and Monkey Island on Grand Lake in NE Oklahoma for the first KGVE Radio Parade of Homes Tour.

This event sponsored by KGVE and hosted by area realty firms including Re/Max Grand Lake will showcase 36 fine homes. Waterfront homes, golf course homes, in town homes, homes of all price points will be included in The Showcase of Homes. 

Joe Neill and Aaron Hughes of the Grand Lake Team of Re/Max Grand Lake will showcase a waterfront home at 5037 Lake Breeze Drive, Patricia Island in Grove, Oklahoma. This home features a terrific floor plan and a detached guest suite. The waterfront views are great. Home includes a boat dock. This over 4,000 square feet home has the most storage I have ever seen in a home of this size. It features a great floor plan and is in as new condition.

Also we will have four new golf course homes not in the printed book open for your inspection. They are all in Patricia Island Estates.

Pickup your show book at KGVE radio in downtown Grove or area realty offices. We hope to see you at Patricia Island this Saturday and Sunday. You will not be disappointed. Call Aaron Hughes at 918 801-5645 or Joe Neill at 918 640-3300 for more info.

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