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The cowboy rides away

Country music king George Strait puts lavish Texas estate up for sale

John Egan
Nov 22, 2017 | 11:32 am

Want to lasso a hilltop mansion built for a country music legend? "King of Country" George Strait — a music icon whose hit songs include "All My Ex’s Live in Texas," "Amarillo by Morning," and "Ocean Front Property" — has put his San Antonio estate on the market.

The property sits on 12.2 acres in San Antonio’s posh Dominion neighborhood. It features a main house with three bedrooms, four full bathrooms, and two half-baths, plus a casita with one bedroom, one bathroom, a living room, a kitchenette, and a fireplace.

In the main house, the owners’ retreat features his-and-her bathrooms and closets.

Other highlights of the estate include:

  • Fourteen hand-sculpted masonry fireplaces, including one in each bedroom.
  • An infinity-edge pool overlooking downtown San Antonio and the Hill Country.
  • A home gym with a bathroom and sauna.
  • A sports court.
  • A walk-in “safe room.”

Arizona sculptor-turned-architect Bill Tull, who died in 2000, and his crew relocated to San Antonio for two years to build the Strait estate, which was completed in 1995.

“What is so special about this house is not really who owns it. It’s special because of the amazing thought and attention to detail that was put in to every step of the build. This home truly is one of a kind and can never be recreated,” Tamara Strait, a luxury real estate agent with Strait Luxury and Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty, said in a release. Tamara Strait is George’s daughter-in-law.

A list price for the estate wasn’t available, although it’s been appraised at nearly $4 million. In an interview with Mansion Global, Tamara Strait declined to confirm the price, but said it’s more “like three times that.” There’s no word on why the Strait family is selling it.

George Strait is selling his 12.2-acre estate.

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George Strait is selling his 12.2-acre estate.
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McKinney and Frisco are rated among the five safest on the list.

Roughly 15 miles separate two fast-growing Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs, McKinney and Frisco. Yet they share highly coveted territory in the safety department.

Home security system company Vivint has put McKinney at No. 2 and Frisco at No. 4 in its ranking of the safest U.S. cities for new homeowners.

Vivint analyzed 93 U.S. cities based on 2025 property crime rates, share of homeowners under 35, share of recent movers, and employment of security and fire alarm installers. Property crime rates carried the greatest weight.

McKinney and Frisco both benefited from low rates for property crimes, with McKinney at No. 2 and Frisco at No. 3 in this category. McKinney posted a rate of 680 incidents per 100,000 residents, according to Vivint, and Frisco had a rate of 789.4 incidents per 100,000 residents.

The two suburbs also tied in a few categories, which were based on metro-level data. They ranked No. 12 for employment of security and fire alarm installers; No. 29 in the recent-mover category; and No. 35 in the young-homeowner category.

McKinney and Frisco aren’t strangers to high rankings in safety studies. In 2025, a SmartAsset list of the country’s safest suburbs ranked McKinney at No. 9 and Frisco at No. 10.

Here are the rankings for other North Texas cities in the Vivint study:

  • Plano ranked 11th
  • Garland ranked 16th
  • Irving ranked 18th
  • Arlington ranked 24th
  • Fort Worth ranked 28th
  • Dallas ranked 66th

Vivint ranked Texas' other major metros as follows:

  • Austin ranked 20th
  • San Antonio ranked 53rd
  • Houston ranked 57th

Port St. Lucie, Florida, topped the Vivint list, thanks largely to its No. 1 showing in the category for property crime rates.

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