Thursday, September 17, 2020

Five big-as-Texas ranches up for grabs offer plenty of social distancing



You can’t find a better place for social distancing than a 70,000-acre spread in the wilds of West Texas. Or how about 1,100 acres on the bayou in East Texas? Keeping 6 feet from your neighbor is no problem out there. Five big Texas ranches that have been up for sale are getting a new marketing push by Dallas-based Icon Global Group. Uechtritz’s firm has scheduled a call for offers for five properties up for grabs: two ranches in West Texas, two in East Texas and one in the Hill Country. “The offers are all due in the first couple of weeks of November,” Uechtritz said. “It’s not an auction — it offers the buyer an opportunity to do a good deal, and the sellers are motivated.” The biggest properties are in West Texas. The 70,000-acre Lely Ranch is in Presidio County near Big Bend National Park. The sprawling property’s international owners put the ranch on the market in 2018. Also in West Texas, the 7,700-acre Fox Canyon Ranch is in the Davis Mountains and owned by a group that uses the property for hunting. Icon Global is working with King Land & Water to sell both West Texas properties. The 1,100-acre Big Cypress Bayou River Ranch is near the historic East Texas town of Jefferson. It has a 75-acre lake and almost 3 miles of Big Cypress Bayou River frontage. Icon Global is also selling the 364-acre T Bar W Ranch near Mineola. “The seller is a bank, and they want to get it off their inventory,” Uechtritz said. Near the Central Texas town of San Saba, Icon Global is marketing the 2,554-acre 7D Ranch. The property includes a hilltop lodge...MORE

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