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Stunning $4.85 million Hill Country ranch comes with its own lazy river

Amber Heckler
May 3, 2024 | 2:58 pm

A sprawling 72-acre property for sale in Boerne is like a private paradise: The Lazy River Ranch, located 280 miles south of Dallas at 227 Seewald Rd., is up for grabs at the modest price of $4.85 million.

227 Seewald Road, Boerne, Lazy River Ranch

Photo courtesy of Kuper Sotheby's

The Lazy River Ranch is at 227 Seewald Rd., Boerne.

The stunning property boasts extravagant amenities like a fully renovated 1,800-square-foot guest house with a two car garage, a driving range and multi-hole putting green, and an 18-acre fenced goat pasture. But the biggest highlight is (as the property's name implies) its own lazy river.

The "river" was custom designed by San Antonio contractors Keith Zars Pools and includes features you'd only expect to find at a luxurious resort: It's temperature controlled and fully lit, so guests can enjoy floating or swimming at any time of day, all year-round. In the center of the lazy river, connected by a custom built bridge, is a green space with a sunken patio area, fire pit, and a swim-up bar. A beautiful waterfall across from the swim-up bar adds to the relaxed tranquility of the area.

227 Seewald Road, Boerne, Lazy River Ranch The view from the lazy river is breathtaking in the evenings.Photo courtesy of Kuper Sotheby's

The property first hit the market in July 2022 for $7.35 million, but that was before the ranch owners – who wish to remain private – split up the property into separate allotments of 27 and 72 acres, according to Kris Forks of Kuper Sotheby's International Realty, who has the listing. The acreage changes resulted in price reductions to its current $4.85 million price, as of April 3.

Other extravagant features that have people talking include:

  • A 5,000-square-foot renovated main house with Viking appliances
  • Custom glass sunroom with sliding accordion doors
  • Covered grilling gazebo area
  • Keith Zars Pools custom built Junior Olympic pool
  • A "rock beach" leading to the lazy river
  • 1,400-square-foot, one bedroom one bathroom pool house equipped with a full kitchen, laundry room, and custom cabinetry
  • Large garage building with extra storage rooms and a second story potential guest suite
  • 400-square-foot custom-built "game room"
  • A custom built shooting range with 30-, 50-, and 100-yard shooting decks
  • A barn with concrete floors for hosting ATVs, a Polaris Ranger, or other "toys"
  • A combination sport court
  • Additional 44-acre pasture for livestock with more barns and storage buildings
Ostentatious property characteristics aside, there's one more thing that makes the Lazy River Ranch so valuable that people might not have noticed it based on the photos.
"What I actually love about the property is it's seven miles from Main Street in Boerne," Forks says. "So it has [the] proximity to town, yet it's completely private."

227 Seewald Road, Boerne, Lazy River Ranch The Windex budget for the sunroom must be substantial.Photo courtesy of Kuper Sotheby's

The property earned a little social media fame after a spotlight on the Facebook page of Zillow Gone Wild which features over-the-top homes. Texas social media users were quick to help out-of-towners with their pronunciation of the ranch's address.

"Stopping in to inform that that town in pronounced 'bur-knee' because #texas in case anyone was wondering," said one Facebook commenter.

More information about the property can be found on lazyriverranch.info.

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This is the income you need to buy a starter home in Dallas right now

Amber Heckler
Aug 7, 2026 | 4:24 pm
Neighborhood of starter homes
Photo by Zac Gudakov on Unsplash
Dallas and Austin lead the nation for improving starter-home affordability.

A new housing affordability report shows Dallas is among the nation's top metros for improving starter-home affordability. First-time buyers are finally catching a small break, with the income needed to purchase a median-priced starter home falling in 2026.

Dallas residents need to earn $83,096 to afford a median-priced home in the metro area, or 5.1 percent less than they did last year, the Redfin report found.

Dallas had the third-biggest decline in the income needed to afford a starter home out of the 50 U.S. metros analyzed in the report. Redfin also determined that all starter home listings in Dallas are "affordable" based on the city's median household income — which the report estimates at $103,144.

Dallas still has a far higher income required to afford a starter home compared to the national average, but affordability is improving slightly across the board. Americans need to make $70,693 to afford the typical starter home, according to the report's findings.

"The income needed to buy a starter home is declining while earnings are rising," the report said. "The typical American household earns an estimated $87,599, about $17,000 more than what’s needed to buy the median-priced U.S. starter home. That gap is widening: A year ago, the typical American earned roughly $12,500 more than they needed to buy a starter home."

Still, starter home affordability is "still often out of reach" for first-time homebuyers in expensive real estate markets due to "near high record" sale prices and soaring mortgage rates, the study said.

In neighboring Fort Worth, residents only need to make $77,886 to afford a starter home — an attainable milestone based on the city's estimated median household income of $93,102. Fort Worth ranks fourth nationwide for its year-over-year improvement in starter home affordability.

For additional comparison, this is the income needed to afford a starter home in other major Texas metros:

  • Austin – $92,607 (down 6.1 percent)
  • Houston – $70,384 (down 4 percent)
  • San Antonio – $62,859 (down 3.7 percent)

Unfortunately, affording a home in the overall housing market is further straining Americans' wallets. American households need to make just under $110,000 afford the typical U.S. home, but Redfin's evaluation found the typical household makes about $22,000 less than that.

"The discrepancy is partly because the overall market is driven by outsized price increases in the luxury segment, and outsized price increases in places like San Francisco and West Palm Beach, where affluent buyers are active," the report said. "At the same time, some would-be buyers of starter homes are pulling back because they typically earn less money and are more sensitive to affordability pressures."

The top 10 U.S. metros with the biggest declines in the income required to afford the typical starter home are:

  • No. 1 – Austin, Texas
  • No. 2 – Oakland, California
  • No. 3 – Dallas, Texas
  • No. 4 – Fort Worth, Texas
  • No. 5 – Denver, Colorado
  • No. 6 – San Francisco, California
  • No. 7 – Phoenix, Arizona
  • No. 8 – Las Vegas, Nevada
  • No. 9 – Houston, Texas
  • No. 10 – Los Angeles, California
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