Custom Home Builder in Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas
A working ranch turned into one of San Antonio’s most established communities. The country club is built into the original family home. The oaks that gave this place its name are still standing. This is Fair Oaks Ranch.
Fair Oaks Ranch didn’t start as a planned community. It started as 5,000 acres of Hill Country ranch land owned by an oilman who bred racehorses and pioneered cattle genetics. That origin matters, because it’s the reason the community feels the way it does: unhurried, rooted, and genuinely connected to the land it was built on. McNair Custom Homes has been building in the greater San Antonio Hill Country corridor since 1998, and Fair Oaks Ranch is exactly the kind of community we were built for. If you have a lot here – or are searching for one – let’s build something that belongs.
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A Community That Grew From the Land and Never Forgot It
The story of Fair Oaks Ranch begins in the 1930s, when oilman Ralph Fair Sr. acquired several tracts of Hill Country land and built what became a 5,000-acre working ranch. He raised racehorses. He developed a Hereford cattle breeding program so advanced it drew buyers from around the world. When Fair and his wife passed in the late 1960s, the family faced the question every landowner eventually faces: what do you do with 5,000 acres of irreplaceable Hill Country terrain?
They chose to develop it carefully. Ranchettes of five to twelve acres came first. The Fair family home – 14,000 square feet of Hill Country architecture – was converted into the Fair Oaks Ranch Golf and Country Club in 1978, with courses designed with the input of South African golfer Gary Player. The community incorporated as a city in 1988. Today it spans 8.5 square miles across three counties (Bexar, Kendall, and Comal) and is home to nearly 10,000 residents who came here for the same reasons they always have: eleven miles of nature trails, championship golf, Cibolo Creek winding through the property, a country club at the center of community life, and Boerne ISD schools that consistently earn top marks.
What’s remarkable is how much of the original character survived the growth. The oak canopy that gave the community its name is still intact. The lots are still generous. The pace is still unmistakably Hill Country.
