George Strait House: The San Antonio Adobe Estate He Sold in 2021

For about twenty years, George and Norma Strait lived on 12.2 acres inside San Antonio’s gated Dominion community, in a custom adobe house they built from scratch. It took two years to build and was finished in 1997, and its sculptural details came from the Phoenix artist Bill Tull. The couple moved out to the Boerne area in 2017, and the 7,925-square-foot George Strait house then spent four years on the market before it sold at the end of 2021.

It’s the kind of property that earns the word “estate”: fourteen hand-sculpted fireplaces, an infinity pool looking out toward the Hill Country, a separate guest casita, and enough land to disappear from the world entirely. Every room carries the fingerprints of a man who built his career on authenticity and never chased flash for its own sake.

The House at a Glance

Detail	Record
Location	The Dominion, San Antonio, Texas
Size	7,925 sq ft on 12.2 acres
Rooms	Three bedrooms in the main house plus a one-bedroom casita; six and a half bathrooms in all
Built	Land bought in 1993; house completed in 1997 after two years of construction
Design	Santa Fe-style adobe, with custom work by artist Bill Tull
First listed	2017–18, at $10 million
Sold	November 30, 2021; price not disclosed (last asking price $6.9 million)

George Strait at a Glance

Born in Poteet, Texas, and raised on his family’s ranch near Pearsall, George Harvey Strait brought genuine cowboy culture into mainstream country music. He has sold more than 100 million records, earned 33 platinum or multi-platinum albums, and holds the record for the most number-one hits by any artist in any genre. After a stint in the Army, he enrolled at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, now Texas State, where he and Norma set up house while he earned a degree in agriculture in 1979. His band, Ace in the Hole, played its first show at the Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos on October 13, 1975.

What separates him from most stars of his stature is restraint. He rarely gave interviews and spent his downtime ranching rather than at industry parties. That same instinct shaped the house: no rooms built for magazine spreads, just lasting craftsmanship in a place he and Norma actually wanted to live.

The Dominion

The Dominion is a gated community on San Antonio’s far north side, built around the Dominion Country Club. It has long attracted professional athletes and energy executives who want privacy, golf and Hill Country views within the city limits. Strait’s 12.2 acres were a rare amount of land for the neighbourhood. Mature live oaks and native landscaping made the property feel more like a private ranch than a suburban estate, even though downtown is about 20 minutes away.

Strait has always spoken warmly about the city. He once described San Antonio as a big city with a small-town feel and said he couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. That makes the eventual move out, covered below, more telling.

Architecture: Adobe Meets the Hill Country

Bill Tull was a sculptor before he was a designer, and he brought that sensibility to the house. The walls are hand-plastered adobe with flowing, organic lines that you won’t find in spec-built luxury homes. Thick earth-toned walls, low roofs and long horizontal lines draw on Santa Fe traditions and settle the house into the rolling terrain.

The ceilings are built with vigas, the heavy round beams of Southwestern adobe building, laid with saguaro-cactus ribs between them. Underfoot, yellow pine alternates with poured concrete. Oversized windows and glass doors pull light deep into the rooms and frame long views, and interior courtyards and covered patios blur the line between indoors and out. The house doesn’t copy a style. It interprets one through a specific place and a specific family.

Inside the Home

High ceilings keep the main rooms open, and the 14 hand-sculpted kiva-style fireplaces, each different, anchor them with warmth and character.

Bedrooms and Bathrooms

The main house has three bedrooms, each with an en-suite bathroom and a fireplace. The primary suite stands out, with separate his-and-hers bathrooms and walk-in closets, practical for a couple who spent decades building a life together. Counting the casita and the powder rooms, the property has six and a half bathrooms.

Kitchen and Living Spaces

The kitchen pairs professional-grade appliances with custom cabinetry. It was designed for a family that actually cooked and gathered. Even the appliances got the artist’s treatment: the twin Sub-Zero freezers carry a hand-drawn copper design, echoed by a custom copper bar top in the entertaining area. There’s also a home office, an exercise room and a four-car garage.

Personal Details

Artist-commissioned murals of Texas scenes appear throughout the house, and stained-glass windows with Western motifs filter light into the hallways. One room was finished to look like a bank vault from a Western movie, a bit of playfulness in an otherwise restrained house.

Guest Casita

The separate casita gives visitors real independence: one bedroom, one bathroom, a living room, a kitchenette and its own fireplace. It’s the kind of setup that says “we want you comfortable, but we also want our space,” a distinction that matters on a 12-acre compound where guests might stay for a week.

Grounds and Outdoor Living

The outdoor spaces were built for Texas weather and Texas entertaining, which means they had to work ten months of the year.

Infinity-Edge Pool

The pool, finished in iridescent mosaic tile, is placed so the water seems to spill out toward the Hill Country horizon. A connected spa sits alongside it.

Outdoor Kitchen

An outdoor kitchen with a built-in grill, sink, icemaker and full-size refrigerator handles everything from weeknight burgers to full barbecues. Several patio areas suit anything from a quiet evening for two to a larger party under open sky.

Sports Court

A sports court covers basketball, tennis or whatever the family felt like playing. Beyond it, the 12.2 acres leave room to walk, roam or simply sit and hear nothing, a luxury that sounds modest until you’ve lived without it.

Four Years on the Market

The Straits moved to the Boerne area in 2017, looking for more privacy, and listed the house at $10 million. Different outlets date the first listing to 2017 or 2018. The house stood empty for most of the time it was for sale. It was marketed by Tamara Strait, George’s daughter-in-law, who admitted it was a taste-specific house. She said buyers needed to picture it with transitional furniture to see how differently it could feel. She also said that if her father-in-law could have picked the house up and taken it with him, he would have.

Date	Asking price	Notes
2017–18	$10,000,000	Initial listing
2019	$8,900,000	First reduction
February 2021	$7,500,000	Back on the market after a pause
October 2021	$6,900,000	Final reduction
November 30, 2021	Undisclosed	Sold to a San Antonio business owner

The sale price is unknown for a simple reason. Texas is a non-disclosure state, so what a buyer pays for a home isn’t part of the public record. The $6.9 million figure attached to the house is its last asking price, not a confirmed sale price. The house hasn’t been back on the market since. For 2026, Bexar County appraised the property at about $5 million, which is a tax valuation, not a market price.

The long wait says less about the house’s quality than about how niche it was. Not every buyer wants 14 sculpted fireplaces and cactus-rib ceilings. The one who does is exactly the buyer who will value them.

Where George Strait Lives Now

Since 2017, George and Norma have lived in the Boerne area in the Hill Country northwest of San Antonio, a quieter, more rural setting than the Dominion. Strait’s roots in ranching country south of the city go back further. His family’s ranch near Pearsall, where he grew up, has been in the family for generations, and he has described ranch life, whether roping, hunting or just riding around, as how he likes to spend his time off.

No complete list of his property has ever been published. The documented holdings are the Boerne-area home where he lives, a house on the coast in Rockport, and his family’s ranch land near Pearsall. The Dominion estate was sold in 2021, and his stake in Tapatio Springs ended with the resort’s sale in 2022.

Rockport

George and Norma have a house on the shoreline in Rockport, a small town on the Texas coast. Hurricane Harvey hit the town head-on in August 2017, and their house was damaged along with their neighbours’. Strait said the damage was less than some people’s and maybe worse than others’. On September 21, 2017, he toured Rockport with Governor Greg Abbott, and in 2018 he appeared, unpaid, in the “Find Yourself in Rockport-Fulton” campaign to bring visitors back. No sale of the house has ever been reported, so as far as the public record shows, he still owns it. Nothing more recent than those 2017–18 appearances confirms it, though.

Tapatio Springs

In 2011, Strait and developer Tom Cusick bought the Tapatio Springs Hill Country Resort in Boerne out of foreclosure and renovated it. The resort changed hands in June 2022, and its new owners were not named.

Final Thoughts

The George Strait house tells a story most celebrity real estate doesn’t. There’s no marble foyer built to impress strangers and no car showroom behind glass. It’s a custom adobe home on twelve acres that a man and his wife lived in, genuinely lived in, for two decades. They left it for more privacy, not for something bigger. Bill Tull’s work gave the house its bones, and the Straits gave it its character. By Tamara Strait’s account, George would have taken it with him if he could.

Sources

• PaperCity (February 2021) on the build, the 1997 move-in, the 2017 move to Boerne, the materials and Tamara Strait’s comments.
• KSAT (December 2021) on the sale, the room count and Bill Tull.
• San Antonio Current on the price history, the closing date and the vault-style room.
• Realtor.com, via Yahoo (March 2026), on his other properties and his comments about San Antonio.
• Bexar County sale and appraisal records, via Redfin, for the 1993 land purchase, the 2021 sale and the 2026 appraisal.
• Texas Standard on Ace in the Hole’s first show in San Marcos.
• Dallas Morning News and the Texas Governor’s Office on his September 2017 Rockport visit.
• Spectrum News on the 2018 Rockport-Fulton campaign.
• Club + Resort Business on the 2011 purchase and 2022 sale of Tapatio Springs.