{"id":454465,"date":"2026-10-02T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454465\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:44:08","slug":"3-sa-suburbs-declared-best-small-cities-to-live-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454465\/","title":{"rendered":"3 SA suburbs declared best small cities to live in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Texas’ king and queen of home renovations, Chip and Joanna Gaines, are done lording over their 136-year-old castle in Waco. The stars of TV\u2019s Fixer Upper have found a buyer for Cottonland Castle, Mansion Global reported<\/a>. The sale is pending.<\/p>\n

The Gaineses listed the 6,176-square-foot castle in Waco’s historic and affluent Castle Heights neighborhood at nearly $2.7 million. They bought the property in 2019, when it carried a $425,000 price tag.<\/p>\n

The castle, with a sandstone and limestone facade, is modeled after a German castle along the Rhine River.<\/p>\n

The duo spent several years restoring the castle to revive its original character. That work became the foundation for their six-part 2022 series Fixer Upper: Welcome Home \u2013 The Castle<\/a>. They opened it to the public for guided tours<\/a> and introduced Magnolia brand tie-ins, like a \u201cColors of the Castle\u201d paint collection.<\/p>\n

\"Fixer All furniture and accessories were includes in the sale.Photo courtesy of Magnolia Realty<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople love things that are nostalgic. They love things that are antique-looking, and I want this place to feel like it did in 1915,\u201d Joanna said during an episode of Fixer Upper. \u201cWhether you walked into the space in 1915 or today, it has that same feeling of history and love and beauty and castle-ship.\u201d<\/p>\n

A year after the series aired, the castle failed to sell at auction<\/a>, according to Mansion Global. It went on the market in June. Amanda Nesbitt of Magnolia Realty, the real estate brokerage founded by the Gaineses, has the listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The three-story castle offers \u201ca seamless blend of historic grandeur and modern functionality,\u201d according to the listing.<\/p>\n

That grandeur includes millwork, antique tile floors, diamond-paned windows, and seven ornate fireplaces. The four-bedroom property features three-and-a-half bathrooms, a formal dining room, a great room, a card room, a library, and a conservatory.<\/p>\n

All furnishings, accessories, and decor \u201chave been thoughtfully curated to complement the home\u2019s design,\u201d the listing says, and are included in the sale.<\/p>\n

\"Fixer The dining room includes a stately fireplace.Photo courtesy of Magnolia Realty<\/p>\n

The castle has a rocky modern history.<\/p>\n

Jack Schwan bought the property in 1969 for $50,000, according to the Waco Welcome Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Over the years, the Schwan family made many repairs and renovations. The family tried to sell the castle in 1982; they thought it was worth close to $1.25 million following the overhaul. In 1991, the property sold only after a drastic price cut.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the next two decades, the home passed through various owners\u2019 hands and fell into disrepair. Many owners found the castle too large and in need of too much maintenance to be a financially feasible home,\u201d according to the Waco Welcome Center.<\/p>\n

The castle sold again in 2014, and a group led by Oxford scholar Dirk Obbink tackled renovation work. The Gaineses bought it five years later, after it had been neglected and abandoned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas’ king and queen of home renovations, Chip and Joanna Gaines, are done lording over their 136-year-old castle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[155508,32347,363,359,111,542,82,84,83,511],"class_list":["post-454465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-best-small-cities","tag-canyon-lake","tag-cibolo","tag-new-braunfels","tag-real-estate","tag-reports","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-wallethub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454465","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=454465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}