Sell your Pecan Plantation house for cash.

Pecan Plantation occupies a 4,200-acre peninsula formed by a bend in the Brazos River about 12 miles southeast of downtown Granbury, with 17 miles of internal shoreline along Lake Granbury. Development began in the early 1970s following the lake's September 15, 1969 impoundment at the De Cordova Bend Dam, and the Nutcracker Golf Club was completed in 1971. Today the community has roughly 3,200 homesites built out of an approved cap of 4,500, with about 2,500 of those homes developed — a build-out trajectory measured in decades, not quarters. The 2020 Census recorded a population of 6,236 for the Pecan Plantation CDP, making it the largest gated community in Hood County by a wide margin. The demographic profile is the part that matters most for sellers: roughly 45% of residents are age 65 or older, the median age at the last published reading was in the low 50s, and the community is now five decades into its retiree-concentration arc. Many original 1970s and 1980s buyers are in their 80s today. The result is a structural, rolling supply of estate sales and downsize-to-DFW exits — not a market trend that comes and goes with rates. Two staffed entrances operate 24/7, and the on-site amenity stack is unusually deep for a North Texas community: the member-only Nutcracker Golf Club (18 holes, 6,743 yards, par 72), an airpark with two runways plus aviation homes with attached hangars, an equestrian center with horse stables, a marina with assigned boat slips and a community ramp, two pools, six tennis courts, an 18-room on-site guest hotel called The Inn, clubhouse dining, an RV park, and a volunteer fire/EMS with helicopter evacuation. Carrying costs reflect that stack: PPOA charges a $4,645 transfer fee at closing and $155 per month in association dues, on top of Hood County property tax at a 0.96% effective rate. For heirs and downsizing owners, the operating reality is that the community's amenities are an asset to active retirees and a recurring bill to anyone who has already moved out. A vacant Pecan Plantation home is still accruing $155/month in dues, still inside the PPOA architectural-control and transfer process, and still on the airpark, golf, marina, and equestrian fee structure — which is why estate and downsize sales here tend to close faster through a cash buyer who already knows the PPOA paperwork than through a conventional spring listing.