Everything’s bigger in Texas\u2014including, apparently, the idea of what a home can be.<\/p>\n
A sprawling 662-acre property about 40 minutes south of Dallas is now on the market for $16.9 million, offering a mix of luxury living, hunting land and what can only be described as a full-scale private compound.<\/p>\n
Known as Pearl Ranch, the property in Ellis County includes a main home, multiple residences, a recreation center, event venue, equestrian facilities and even a 14-acre field dedicated entirely to sunflowers, according to listing materials from the TT Ranch Group at Briggs Freeman Sotheby\u2019s International Realty.<\/p>\n
The main house alone reads like a checklist of over-the-top amenities: five bedrooms, a chef\u2019s kitchen, wine cellar, cigar room and a safe room. Outside, an infinity-edge pool overlooks a bass-filled lake.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere on the property, things start to feel less like a home and more like a resort.<\/p>\n
There’s a separate recreation building with a fitness center with an indoor racquetball court, along with outdoor tennis and basketball courts. And to unwind after an intense game, there’s also a spa and sauna.<\/p>\n
For those who enjoy entertaining, you can channel your inner Great\u00a0Gatsby\u2014or rent out the roughly 10,000-square-foot event venue. It’s complete with a commercial kitchen. So, you can host weddings, corporate retreats or other large gatherings.<\/p>\n
But wait, there’s more: a three-bedroom lakeside cabin, a foreman’s house, a hay barn, an eight-stall horse barn and a game-processing station with a walk-in freezer and outdoor smoker.<\/p>\n
The land itself is just as packed. Pearl Ranch includes multiple lakes and ponds, rolling pastures, wooded areas and high-fenced sections that, according to the listing, are designed to support a range of wildlife. That includes white-tailed deer, elk, antelope, turkey and more.<\/p>\n
It’s the kind of place where, as the listing puts it, someone could spend the morning hunting and still make it back to Dallas-Fort Worth by lunch.<\/p>\n
And then there’s the sunflower field; 14 acres of nothing but bright yellow blooms\u2014less practical than the rest of the ranch, maybe, but arguably the most memorable.<\/p>\n
The property is located at 520\u00a0Orzo Rd. in Maypearl and is being marketed as both a private retreat and a potential income-generating venue. At nearly $17 million, it’s not exactly a casual purchase, but in a state known for doing it big, Pearl Ranch makes a case for just how far that idea can stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything’s bigger in Texas\u2014including, apparently, the idea of what a home can be. A sprawling 662-acre property about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1836,1704,85744,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-246088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-chronnews","9":"tag-chronstaff","10":"tag-chrontexas","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246088","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=246088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}