{"id":16080,"date":"2025-10-22T18:18:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16080\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:18:18","slug":"sa-ranks-no-2-in-u-s-for-home-buyers-ghosting-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16080\/","title":{"rendered":"SA ranks No. 2 in U.S. for home buyers ghosting deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Want to live like MLB hall-of-famer Craig Biggio? The Houston Astros legend is now selling his 1,682-acre Uvalde County ranch<\/a> \u2014 about an hour\u2019s drive from San Antonio \u2014 for just under $11 million, a recent $1.25 million price drop since he first listed it with Republic Ranches last year.<\/p>\n

After owning the ranch for almost 20 years, Biggio listed the property in November 2024, asking for $12.1 million. Now, a well-heeled nature lover can snag it up at a cool $10.85 million.<\/p>\n

According to Republic, most of the land is untouched South Texas brush with drought-resistant \u201cbull mesquite,\u201d live oaks, cedar elms, and a few cypress trees. The tract also includes a more than two-mile stretch of the Sabinal River on its eastern border.<\/p>\n

The ranch includes several fire pits, a walk-in cooler, two implement barns, and a larger enclosed barn. The latter is attached to a three-bedroom, three-bath \u201cbarndominium\u201d with a full kitchen and bunk room. While the interiors aren\u2019t as lavish as Tony Parker\u2019s $19.5 million Boerne estate<\/a>, it does offer plenty of room to play catch.<\/p>\n

\"Craig The grounds of Biggio’s ranch are pure Texana.Photo courtesy of Republic Ranches<\/p>\n

Luxury digs or not, the main selling point is nature. During his management of the property, Biggio planted annual plants to attract quail, doves, and trophy-sized white-tailed deer. The land is a paradise for hunters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of baseball players that are big fishermen, big hunters,\u201d he told Republic principal owner and partner Mark Matthews in an interview<\/a>. \u201cFor me, this is my escape.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so much pressure as baseball players,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo much pressure for your team and your family, your fans. Getting an opportunity to come to a ranch and getting away for a little while is something that I truly treasure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interested buyers can take a stroll through the property below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to live like MLB hall-of-famer Craig Biggio? The Houston Astros legend is now selling his 1,682-acre Uvalde…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[918,1538,12905,111,12906,82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-16080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-economy","9":"tag-home-sales","10":"tag-market-conditions","11":"tag-real-estate","12":"tag-residential","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","15":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}