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By Jason Keeling
(Ryson Real Estate)
Sunset Cove is one of Galveston's newest and finest communities on the water. The Gated subdivision is located on the bay and almost every home has beach views and sits on a canal. The canal leads to Galveston Bay which empties into the Gulf of Mexico and beyond. Sunset cove is a full time or second home playground. Fishing, birding, and boating abound in this great neighborhood. Prices in Sunset cove are on the higher side, but it is new and one of Galveston's only gated areas.
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By Jason Keeling
(Ryson Real Estate)
Old Galveston villas are a new development close to the Galveston causeway. The private, gated community offers a cabana, pool and hot tub, and a 300ft lighted fishing pier. All of the homes look at the bay, or are bay front right across the bay from Moody Gardens. The homes range in size from 2800sqft- 5200+sqft. The homes feature wood floors, huge decks, elevators, granite everywhere, and much more. The prices range is from $595,000-$1,300,000. The homes also come with 1 16ft wide boat slip that can be covered or uncovered to accommodate a boat of almost any size. Old Galveston villas are only 40 Min to Houston and worth the drive. They would make great full-time homes, or vacation homes. The potential income on these beautiful homes is from 50,000-100,000/yr. Call Jason at 409-750-22...
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By Jason Keeling
(Ryson Real Estate)
Sandhill Shores, Galveston Sandhill Shores is a small community built on Galveston's West Beach. The neigborhood is only home to around 30 homes but each home is very unique. The homes are built well and many are over 3,000 sqft. The best thing about Sandhill Shores is the land itself. The lots are very large and have a great dune system. The sand dunes are very importaint in Galveston and the bigger the better! Prices in this community range from $800,000 to $2,000,000 and are considered to be "luxury homes" in Galveston.
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By BILL CHERRY, Broker & Wealth Coach
(Bill Cherry, Realtor)
I was born on Galveston Island, a quirky barrier island town that's just off of the coast of Texas, about fifty miles south of Houston, in 1940.  Most of my adult life, until I moved to Dallas three years ago, was spent as the owner of a Galveston real estate company. Galvestonians will recognize my familiar logo to the left.Even if you've never vacationed there, you are at least familiar with the name because from time to time a hurricane threatens it, and you see and hear about it on the nightly news.For more than 100 years, Galveston's new developments have been small and rare.  In fact, a huge number of the homes and buildings are at least 50 years old, and more than half of them, I would guess, are about a century old.  That's what makes Galveston, Galveston.  It's why islanders li...
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By Jason Keeling
(Ryson Real Estate)
Discover all there is to love about Terramar Beach. West Galveston island still remains a place of breathtaking scenery, spectacular sunsets and unspoiled, uncrowned beaches. Terramar Beach, the prefect promenade for walking, biking, horseback riding, fishing and bird watching. Every spring and fall schools of red drum, speckled trout and flounder migrate along the coast here. Terramar Beach has all types of Galveston homes including: Galveston beach homes, Galveston dry land homes, and Galveston canal homes. Terramar Beach, Galveston is a place where the sand meets the water and dissolves your cares away. Spend your lazy days by the water and pleasure filled nights hitting the town in Galveston. Galveston, Texas has been attracting visitor’s for decades, this charming, coastal town ha...
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By Jason Keeling
(Ryson Real Estate)
Sea Isle is one of those great American communities that are all about hotdogs and the 4th of July. I have really enjoyed getting to know Sea Isle and its many great home owners. The first home I sold in Galveston was in Sea Isle. The neighborhood stretches from the beach to the bay and therefore offers all 4 types of Galveston homes: Beach-front, dry land, canal, and bay-front. Each type of home caters to a different type of person. Sea Isle Texas offers a marina, resuraunt, play ground, pool, and its own fire department. Sea Isle Galveston is really a place to get away from it all and enjoy the "good" life!
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By BILL CHERRY, Broker & Wealth Coach
(Bill Cherry, Realtor)
Sometime back, I wrote a blog about a rather famous building on the waterfront in Galveston that was called Gamboa Cay. Here's what happened.  A fellow named Warren occasionally searches the net for new references to his father, Brad Duncan, who was one of the people who owned Gamboa Cay.  This has especially been true since his dad died a few months ago.Warren found my blog, read it, and wrote an interesting comment there for all to see.  In it he says that he and some of his siblings had lost touch over the years.  Last week, I got an email from one of Warren's brothers, Jon, who had also been searching the net for new references to his dad.  He read my Active Rain blog on Gamboa Cay, saw his brother had posted a response.  He wrote an open letter to his brother (a comment on the blog...
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By Jason Keeling
(Ryson Real Estate)
Galveston Texas real estate is on the rise. Ten years ago Galveston was a quiet, largely undeveloped island without a lot of beach town glamour. However, a flurry of media attention has touted Galveston as Americas last affordable beachfront, and drawn attention to its' miles of waterfront, picturesque historic downtown and fishing fleet, many cultural events, and 8 months of warm weather per year. As the city “grows up”, so do the number of attractions and activities available to visitors and residents. Galveston has been discovered, and the Galveston real estate market is booming in response. In much of the country, the long-feared real estate "bubble" seems to finally have burst. Values and sales numbers are dropping, and properties are sitting unsold for months in many cases. The on...
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By Jason Keeling
(Ryson Real Estate)
Welcome to my new Galveston Texas real estate blog... I want to keep it active and updated... so check back often! I have been bloggin for a while now and I really am enjoying it! AR is a great place and I only hope it keeps growing!
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By BILL CHERRY, Broker & Wealth Coach
(Bill Cherry, Realtor)
I just thought of this story as I was driving home with a signed earnest money contract tonight.  Don't ask me why, but I did. It happened one Christmas Eve about 10 years after the war. There was a fellow from a good Catholic family who had two talents. One was shoplifting and the other was picking pockets. The downtown merchants referred to him as Gonif, a Yiddish word that means "thief." The night people called him Ducky Wucky. Now I can't exactly lay my hands on one distinguishing feature that made him resemble a duck, but there was no doubt. The guy looked like a duck. A lot of people made their living off the streets back then. People like dirty little unshaven Pee Wee, who sold yesterday's newspapers, and Crazy Frank, who made believe he was photographing you and your car for som...
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By Christina Strommen Stevens, Galveston Texas Realtor, Vacation home expert
(Southwest Realty Advisors LLC)
Remeber to view more photos at our Galveston, Texas photo gallery.
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By Christina Strommen Stevens, Galveston Texas Realtor, Vacation home expert
(Southwest Realty Advisors LLC)
Here is another photo of Galveston, Texas.  This photo is of our son enjoying life at the beach.  Please visit our Galveston, Texas photo gallery for more.  Please feel free to send us any Galveston photo submissions. 
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By Christina Strommen Stevens, Galveston Texas Realtor, Vacation home expert
(Southwest Realty Advisors LLC)
Please visit our new Galveston Photo Gallery.  Featuring Galveston, Texas photos.   We really want to highlight what Galveston has to offer.  We have had some great contributions from a local photographer Debbie Olsen.  She services the island using her photography skills.  She also is available when visitors come to the island.  She would be happy to take a few pictures that will help you remember your next Galveston vacation.  Visit our site to see more great photos.  Looking to book a photographer.  Visit our site to learn more about Debbie's service.  We really want to thank her for contributing to our site.  Here is a really great photo of a surfer she caught enjoying the waves.
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By BILL CHERRY, Broker & Wealth Coach
(Bill Cherry, Realtor)
Everyone called him Brother Fickett. By 1949, he had been the pastor of the First Baptist Church for next to ever. Before he was called to Galveston, he had been a mining engineer and smelter chemist and Sunday school teacher, all at the same time. Somewhere in there, teaching the word of God had won out over the other two.What's interesting is that he apparently never earned a degree in divinity, but as a Baylor University alumni, when he applied for and accepted a pastorate at a tiny church in Douglas, Arkansas, Baylor awarded him an honorary doctor of divinity degree. That's when he became formally known as Dr. Harold L. Fickett.Honorary doctorates for ministers weren't uncommon back then. Across the street from First Baptist at Temple B'nai Israel, Rabbi Henry Cohen's credentials we...
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By Christina Strommen Stevens, Galveston Texas Realtor, Vacation home expert
(Southwest Realty Advisors LLC)
I will be posting photos from Galveston, Texas on this blog.  Please feel free to visit our site where a photo gallery is in the works.  This gallery will feature our photos and shots taken by others.  We welcome all contributors.  We hope the beauty of Galveston can be displayed throughout our blogs and our  Galveston, Texas website.
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By Christina Strommen Stevens, Galveston Texas Realtor, Vacation home expert
(Southwest Realty Advisors LLC)
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By BILL CHERRY, Broker & Wealth Coach
(Bill Cherry, Realtor)
 By Bill CherryDallas Broker-RealtorWithin the next few days, we'll know if the current hurricane Dean that's racing across the Gulf of Mexico will go ashore along the Texas coast.  One potential target is Galveston, an island that's fifty miles from Houston.  The most famous Galveston hurricane happened in 1900.  Books upon books have been written about the 1900 Storm because some 6,000 people lost their lives. The island had to pump dredge material from the gulf's bottom onto the island to raise the whole kit and kaboodle above sea level.But Galveston has, since the beginning of time, been a town that has been forced to frequently deal with the disasters caused by the various angers of nature. And it has always risen to the occasion. And if necessary, it will this time.Beginning back ...
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By BILL CHERRY, Broker & Wealth Coach
(Bill Cherry, Realtor)
                                       SOMETIMES IT TAKES HEARTACHES TO GET A CHURCH BUILT                                                       BY BILL CHERRY, DALLAS BROKER-REALTOR                                                                                        972 380-7347This is St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica. It is the oldest surviving church in Galveston, Texas.When it opened its doors in 1848, almost all of the Roman Catholics in the state of Texas were served by this new diocese called the Diocese of Galveston.  The first bishop was the Most Rev. John Odin. In 1843, with a group of Ursuline nuns, who had been transferred here from New Orleans, Bishop Odin was charged with building a girl's academy and this fine cathedral.  Fr. J.M. Pacquin joined as the cathedral's first re...
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By Chris Gallardo
(Keller Williams)
Hey folks, I just wanted to tell you guys about some upcoming Open Houses in the Galveston area. There are only a few in the next month.Search Har.com for Open Houses in Galveston The Hurley Group 
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