Bush Countdown: Sale of Crawford Ranch

By: Diane Tuman, Zillow Content Manager | August 18, 2008

Vanity Fair, which likes to tweak U.S. President George W. Bush any way it can, has started a “George W. Bush Crawford Ranch Sale Countdown.” In doing some quick office math (thanks, Mary!), it looks like this VF countdown will put Bush’s Crawford, TX, home on the market in the middle of June, 2009.

Rumors have been heating up that the prez — love him or hate him — will sell the ranch because his wife,

Laura, wants to live in a town that has more than one traffic light and a public

library. Evidently, reports have placed Laura’s top choice to be Highland Park, which is a suburb of Dallas and about a two-hour drive north of their Crawford ranch. Laura, if you’re interested in Highland Park, TX real estate, you’ll see it’s quite affordable with a Zindex of $90K (at this writing).

Check out some interesting satellite imagery of Bush’s Crawford ranch. Evidently, he did a lot of work to the property, known as the Prairie Creek Ranch, after buying it for $1.3 million from the Engelbrecht family in 1999.

Even Dallas Dirt is speculating that W is looking into a Dallas office. Oh, where will they land?

Stumble it!
Categories: Real Estate

Comments

8 Comments so far

gregg on August 19, 2008 6:34 am

you have the wrong highland park. the one they are referring to is in dallas. your’s is in San Antonio. The dallas highland park’s zindex will be 10x your number up there.
gregg on August 19, 2008 6:36 am

Here: http://www.zillow.com/homes/map/highland-park,-dallas,-tx_rb/#/homes/for_sale/map/highland-park,-dallas,-tx_rb/32.839505,-96.78455,32.819671,-96.805192_rect/14_zm/
rorysiems on August 20, 2008 1:04 am

Highland park and tx real estate! If these sorts of properties are affordable then many will be eager to go for it.
Vic Parise on August 25, 2008 8:59 am

Sounds like there going to market it on EBAY!
COme On lets do it!
Vic Parise
L. Frazier on August 29, 2008 6:02 pm

Why do you think he’s going to sell the ranch. People in Texas still go to the country even if they live in the city. We are proud to have George W. live in Dallas. We name the freeways after our Presidents. We are not ashamed of them, and we don’t berate them. We welcome them with open arms.
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