Galveston Island, Texas
Felicia Stinnett
REALTOR®, The Sears Group · Galveston Island Specialist
Galveston Island, Texas
REALTOR®, The Sears Group · Galveston Island Specialist
Your Island Agent
Felicia Stinnett is a REALTOR® with The Sears Group who works Galveston Island: the historic districts, the Seawall, the beach and canal streets of the West End. Much of her work is with buyers arriving from outside Texas, and after 25 years running her own interior design and staging firm she can tell you what an island house needs before it is beautiful, and what it will cost.
Meet Felicia
Galveston Island
A 32 mile barrier island with a Victorian downtown, a working port, a medical university and the Gulf at the end of every street. People who fall for Charleston or Savannah tend to fall for Galveston, and here their money still buys the porch.
Whole blocks of 1880s and 1890s Victorians, many by the architects who rebuilt the island after the Great Fire of 1885, protected inside four local historic districts.
Mardi Gras, Dickens on The Strand, the Grand 1894 Opera House, art walks, shrimp boats and a downtown that stays open after the day trippers leave.
Gulf beaches along the Seawall and the West End, calm bay and canal frontage on the north side, Galveston Island State Park, and boat access most coastal towns charge twice for.
UTMB Health and Texas A&M Galveston anchor the island year round, which matters as much to retirees as it does to families.
Roughly 45 to 60 minutes up I-45 to Houston, with an international airport beyond it, so family visits and specialist appointments stay easy.
Island demand runs year round, so many owners cover part of the carry with short or seasonal rentals. The rules differ by neighborhood, and that conversation happens before you write an offer.
Relocating
Most of the people Felicia works with are not moving across town. They are empty nesters and remote workers coming from out of state, weighing Galveston against Charleston or Savannah, and asking the same practical questions: which streets stay dry, what the insurance really costs, where the year round neighbors are, and what a historic home needs. That is the conversation she has every week.
Island Housing
Six very different islands live inside one island. Each type carries its own price logic, insurance profile and upkeep, and the difference between them is usually what a first visit is really about.
Queen Anne and Italianate homes in the East End and Silk Stocking districts. Tall ceilings, heart pine, deep porches, and a design review process worth understanding before you buy.
Ask About Historic Homes →
The classic West End house on pilings, decks facing the Gulf, parking underneath. Elevation is the whole conversation here, because it drives both risk and premium.
Ask About Beach Houses →
Protected water on the north side of the island with a dock and lift at the back door. Quieter than the beach, and the better buy for anyone whose real hobby is the boat.
Ask About Canal Homes →
Lock and leave living with Gulf views, an elevator and someone else handling the exterior. The dues and the reserve study matter more than the finishes.
Ask About Condominiums →
The island's most livable value: solid postwar homes on high ground near UTMB and the bayou, walkable, and forgiving for a first island purchase.
Ask About Bungalows →
Upper floors above the cast iron storefronts of The Strand, and new construction built to current coastal code with impact glass and modern elevations.
Ask About Lofts And New Builds →How I Help
Three places to start, each handled personally by Felicia from the first call to the closing table.
Historic homes, beach houses, canal homes and condominiums, shown by someone who lives the difference.
Explore Buying →
Designer staging and marketing aimed at the out of state buyer who is already looking for Galveston.
Explore Selling →
A relocation call about neighborhoods, insurance, rentals and what your budget really buys here.
Request A Consultation →On The Island Now
Active island listings, plus a direct line for the ones that trade before they are ever advertised.
Selling On The Island
A private valuation prepared personally by Felicia, priced against what has actually closed on your street, your canal or your stretch of beach.
Request A ValuationMoving To The Island
Historic, beach, canal or condominium. New Galveston listings sent as they come up, with the insurance and rental picture attached.
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Buyers and sellers, in their own words, quoted in full. Send us your reviews and we add them to this section.
Felicia worked very hard to get our home sold and was instrumental in the price negotiation. As an interior decorator she was great getting our home ready to sell and even added some art and decorations to help it look better. Highly recommended.
Highly recommend! Felicia goes far above and beyond to help you find your forever home. Her experience, dedication, commitment, and representation as our agent was unmatched. Going forward, we will use Felicia as our agent whether buying or selling. Loving our new home!!
Felicia did an excellent job in helping to sell our home. She is professional and a hard worker. Our home sold after one open house so within a few days of listing it, we had an offer! She also was proficient in staging our home as she is also a professional designer as well as a real estate agent.
Felicia did a great job helping us navigate the home building process as we built our dream house with a local builder. She helped my wife with some key design center decisions and helped keep the builder agent on task when we felt there wasn't enough attention on our build. By moving things along, we were able to close on time. She sold our previous house before we could move into the new house, but was able to help us find a great rental property close to the new build so we could keep an eye on things. She really cares about her customers and does everything she can to help ensure a smooth buying process.
Felicia's tenacity is unmatched. She goes above and beyond to sell your home and is willing to put in the extra effort with staging, pictures, descriptions, open houses, you name it! We were able to sell with Felicia very quickly and got top dollar for our neighborhood. She's always available when you need her or calls you right back. She works all day and night it seems!
Felicia worked very hard to get our home sold and was instrumental in the price negotiation. As an interior decorator she was great getting our home ready to sell and even added some art and decorations to help it look better. Highly recommended.
Highly recommend! Felicia goes far above and beyond to help you find your forever home. Her experience, dedication, commitment, and representation as our agent was unmatched. Going forward, we will use Felicia as our agent whether buying or selling. Loving our new home!!
Felicia did an excellent job in helping to sell our home. She is professional and a hard worker. Our home sold after one open house so within a few days of listing it, we had an offer! She also was proficient in staging our home as she is also a professional designer as well as a real estate agent.
Felicia did a great job helping us navigate the home building process as we built our dream house with a local builder. She helped my wife with some key design center decisions and helped keep the builder agent on task when we felt there wasn't enough attention on our build. By moving things along, we were able to close on time. She sold our previous house before we could move into the new house, but was able to help us find a great rental property close to the new build so we could keep an eye on things. She really cares about her customers and does everything she can to help ensure a smooth buying process.
Felicia's tenacity is unmatched. She goes above and beyond to sell your home and is willing to put in the extra effort with staging, pictures, descriptions, open houses, you name it! We were able to sell with Felicia very quickly and got top dollar for our neighborhood. She's always available when you need her or calls you right back. She works all day and night it seems!
The History Of Galveston
Galveston was the richest and busiest city in Texas in the 1800s, with a port, a bank row and a Victorian downtown to match. On September 8, 1900 a hurricane took much of it away in a single night, and the island answered by building a seawall and then raising the grade of the city itself behind it. Everything charming about Galveston today sits on top of that decision.
The survivors of 1900 are the reason whole blocks of 1880s and 1890s architecture still stand, and why four local historic districts now protect them. It is also why elevation, grade and construction era matter so much here: two houses on the same street can sit at very different heights, and that shows up in both the risk and the premium.
Knowing which era a house comes from, what was done to it after which storm, and how it is elevated today is most of what separates a good island buy from an expensive lesson.
Island Neighborhoods
From the Victorian East End to the canals of the far West End, six parts of one island that live nothing alike.
The island's first residential neighborhood, and its grandest Victorian streets.
Ask About The East End →
Tall narrow Victorians on shaded side streets, at a friendlier entry price.
Ask About Silk Stocking →
Cast iron storefronts, lofts above them, and the island's whole social calendar.
Ask About Downtown →
Walkable new coastal cottages steps from the sand on the island's east end.
Ask About Beachtown →
The classic West End beach house, with 3 sales on Felicia's record here.
Ask About Pirates Beach →
Gated beachfront living at the end of the island, with 6 sales on her record.
Ask About Pointe West →By Appointment
Buying, selling, or still deciding whether Galveston is the move.
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