Port Aransas Real Estate

PORT ARANSAS, Texas - The  Dallas News reported this weekend that the Newport Dunes Golf Course has received yet another accolade.  

Read the complete article here and come enjoy a great round of links golf on the Texas coast.

PORT ARANSAS, Texas - Birders from across the country will flock to Port Aransas this Thursday for the 14th Annual Whooping Crane Festival.  Local birding expert and enthusiast Phyllis Yochem wrote a great story about the festival for the Corpus Christi Caller Times.

Additional details are available at the Port Aransas Whooping Crane Festival website.

PORT ARANSAS, Texas - The Newport Dunes Golf Course has been open for over a year and has been a popular addition to our community.  Cybergolf.com has just published a a great review of the course.

"It's also the perfect spot for a true links-style course, a vision that Arnold Palmer Design Group turned into reality with Newport Dunes Golf Club. Weighing in at 6,821 wind-swept yards from the tips, the par-71 track meanders through sweeping, untamed native dunes and offers spectacular views of both the Gulf of Mexico and Corpus Christi Bay." 

Read the entire review here.

PORT ARANSAS, Texas - I must confess that I have been remiss in posting updates in recent weeks.  With that in mind, here are a few highlights:

• The Port Aransas real estate market performed far better than most last year.  Total 2009 sales were 8% below 2008 levels.  Many of the sales were in new developments such as Cinnamon Shore and Village Walk.
• Overall condo and home pricing appears to be flat, but that is in part due to numerous high-end properties that have somewhat skewed the average pricing numbers.
• Commercial and residential lot pricing continues to fall and in some cases has returned to 2003 levels.
• Local property management companies report early indicators of another very strong year for tourism and vacation rentals.
• Our Winter Texan friends are here in great numbers.  Unfortunately, we are in the midst of a typical "El Nino" Winter with wet conditions.  Alas, it will be hot and sunny in no time.
• In 2010 residents and visitors will enjoy the Port Aransas Nature Preserve that opened late last year.  The new Port Aransas Skate Park will be opening in a few weeks and will be a popular new addition to our community.
• The first big Spring Break Weekend is March 13th (only a few weeks away).

PORT ARANSAS, Texas -   What began as an opportunity presented by the Texas General Land Office in 2002 has finally come to fruition.  The 1,200 acre Nature Preserve at Charlie’s Pasture is open and offers residents and visitors a new way to explore Mustang Island.

“It’s a chance for people to walk into nature,” said Joan Holt, the University of Texas Marine Science Institute’s director of fisheries and mariculture who helped develop the birding sites in the preserve. “People of any age and ability can get a view of an area not a lot of people could get to before. I think it will be used a lot for enjoying nature and sunsets and, of course, bird watching.”

Read the Corpus Christi Caller Times article on the new Port Aransas Nature Preserve.

Photo:  George Gongora - Caller Times

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PORT ARANSAS, Texas - The January 2010 issue of Golf Digest includes the annual review of the best new public and private courses.  The Newport Dunes Golf Course on Mustang Island made the top ten.  This news will not come as a surprise to the many golfers that have enjoyed playing a round on the new seaside links masterpiece.

The Arnold Palmer Signature Course opened in September 2008.  "Being here and seeing this course has aroused some enthusiasm in me I hadn't felt for a while.  I can't tell you that I've enjoyed playing any golf course any more than I did this one.  This is a fantastic setting." ~ Arnold Palmer

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PORT ARANSAS, Texas – Cinnamon Shore on Mustang Island recently announced that construction of the “Susan Castor Collection Beach House” is now underway with completion expected in June 2010.  Once completed, the home will be open for public tours.

The team for the site selection, design of the home, construction, and landscaping has been collaborating since mid-July. The design professionals have spent countless hours striving to deliver fresh ideas and interesting features for a perfect beach home to be enjoyed by all ages. Now it is time for these ideas, inspirations and visions to become a reality. Furnishings will be provided by the Susan Castor Collection and her team of designers. “We are very excited about this wonderful opportunity to provide the public with the results of a total collaboration among design professionals on a challenging beachfront property in a master planned traditional seaside village.”

Cinnamon Shore is a 62 acre Master Planned Community featuring a pedestrian friendly lifestyle with sidewalks throughout, beautiful lakes, multiple parks, neighborhood pools,  2 Dune Crossovers accessing the beach and the upcoming Town Center featuring shops and restaurants all within a 5 minute walk from anywhere in the community!

When complete, Cinnamon Shore will have approximately 300 homes and condos. Home prices begin in the low $400's while condos will begin in the low $200's

Cinnamon Shore Street Scene

Cinnamon Shore Swimming Pool

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PORT ARANSAS, Texas - Fans of Port A past and present will enjoy reading this detailed article that I recently discovered on Google Books.  This article from the August 1979 issue of Texas Monthly magazine illustrates that many of the priorities and concerns of today were shared by residents and community leaders thirty years ago.  Read the complete article here on Google Books. 

The Enterprise Blog offers more insight on how the Texas economy is outperforming other parts of the country...

New Geography, the online magazine created by Joel Kotkin and others with a special focus on demographics and trends, has been tracking the implosion of California in an interesting way: by comparing it to Texas.

Texas and California are America’s two most populous states, together numbering approximately 55 million people, which is only about 6 million less than the United Kingdom, where I live. California, as everyone knows, has a coolness factor that Texas cannot match. Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and wine. Say no more. But, unless one has been living in a cave, everyone knows that the cool state is also the broke state. If Hollywood turned California’s budget and fiscal position into a movie, it would be a blockbuster horror film indeed.

Texas, on the other hand, is growing, creating wealth, and attracting the entrepreneurial and creative classes that too many people think only go to places like New York and California. This interesting post by Tory Gattis at New Geography explains why. He shares a four-point analysis from Trends magazine:

Read the complete article here:

PORT ARANSAS, Texas - The Annual Winter Texan / Snow Bird migration has begun.  RV Parks, condos and area homes are preparing for our seasonal guests.  Community leaders are hopeful that their marketing efforts will pay dividends this year.  

The Corpus Christi Caller Times features a story on the Port Aransas, Rockport and North Padre Island markets as they prepare for the Winter visitors.  The article is available here.

Photo George Gongora/Caller-Times

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