The Heights & Greater Heights
“The Heights” is a confusing term. It initially referred to Houston Heights, developed in the 1890’s. This is the biggest, oldest, original part of the Heights. See the page devoted to it. Over the decades several other Heights neighborhoods have grown up around it. Woodland Heights, Sunset Heights, Norhill, Brooke Smith and many more. The image below shows a few of these neighborhoods that are now collectively called the Heights.
The largest of these neighborhoods are listed below. I have a page devoted to each of them Click on the links to get prices, MLS Home Search, history, location and more.
Each one of these Heights subdivisions is unique in style, price, amount of new homes, etc.
Houston Heights Homes
Brooke Smith Homes
Norhill Homes
Sunset Heights Homes
Woodland Heights Homes
There are many more neighborhoods than these included in the the Heights area. It is bounded roughly from Durham on the west, and 3 freeways around it; 610 N Loop, I-10, and I-45. My Interactive Heights Map shows some nearby parts of the Heights and surrounding areas.
Greater Heights
Greater Heights is the relatively new term given to the area by the City. (It is the City’s designation for Super Neighborhood 15); It is comprised of all the Heights areas plus one neighborhood to the west of N Shepherd/Durham; Shady Acres. It’s kind of a meaningless term except Realtors and builders can now call the less prestigious Shady Acres “Greater Heights”…it sounds better.
Shady Acres Homes
If you are unfamiliar with the Heights, here is a quick tour of the area.
And One last quick video of some Heights shops from a blog I’ve just started, Twisted Heights.
Houston Preservation Fair 2014
The Second Annual Preservation Fair is June 7, 2014 This is an early notice about the upcoming Preservation Fair by Houston’s Planning and Development Department. There was a lot of info given out at last year’s fair. This should be even stronger. No schedule of events yet. See imfo from Last Year’s event. It will be a […]
What is the Heights Market Like Now?
What is the Heights market like? I just don’t have words to describe it. Frenzied would be best description. I’ll just list some developments going on now: Homes I just sold a couple of years ago in the $500’s are now selling in the $800’s Land that I recently listed for $45/SF in Sunset Heights […]
MLS
MLS Home Search Use the MLS search engine below to search Houston homes for sale. You don’t need to fill in all the boxes; just what’s of interest to you. MLS Area 9 covers Heights, Garden Oaks, Lindale Park, Oak Forest, etc. Spring Branch is MLS area 24. Rice Military, Montrose, etc. is Area 16 […]
Germantown Historic District
Germantown Historic District Proposed Update: Approval was given in early December, 2013 for the Germantown Historic District! This latest Heights Historic District approval makes the seventh in the Heights. The subdivision of Grota Homestead sought historic designation by its original name of Germantown. Grota is a small neighborhood just East of Woodland Heights. Germantown is how […]
First Ward Historic Designation
First Ward Historic Designation-Time is Running Out! A portion of First Ward is petitioning for Historic Designation. First Ward is just South of the existing historic district of Sixth Ward.I wrote about this earlier in another blog, TwistedHeights.com. Now channel 13 is talking about it too. Unfortunately, First Ward has had a huge (HUGE) influx […]
Heights Home Sales-January 2014
Heights Home Sales I haven’t shown a sales chart in a while, because it’s like a stuck record (I’ll bet people under 30 won’t even know what that means.)…Strong, strong, strong. The chart below shows monthly home sales in the Heights, but what it doesn’t show is demand. If there was more inventory out there, […]
Berkshire Hathaway HS Anderson Properties Raffle for Sunshine Kids
Berkshire Hathaway HS Anderson Properties Raffle for Sunshine Kids The end is near. If you’ve always dreamed of owning a Harley, here is your chance. My office, Berkshire Hathaway HS Anderson Properties (We are on E 11th, just west of Studewood) is raffling a new HD Dyna Super Glyde. $100 donation to the Sunshine Kids […]
Luxury Home Sales in Houston
Luxury Home Sales in Houston up 46% Everyone knows that Houston’s economy is booming and the real estate market is crazy. What is being noticed now however, is the fact that the sales of luxury homes (homes priced at a million dollars or more) has gone up considerably too. Our neighborhood paper, The Leader, reported […]
Swamplot’s Neighborhood of the Year
You’ll be happy to know that several of our neighborhoods were nominated for Neighborhood of the Year by my favorite real estate blog, Swamplot. It was an odd nomination process. It was NOT “best neighborhood”, it was “neighborhood of the year” which means any reason could be given; and you had to back up your […]
Lights in the Heights 2013 – What You Need to Know
Lights in the Heights 2013, Woodland Heights Event Lights in the Heights (LITH) is almost here again. Here is what you need to know before getting here. Lights in the Heights is a 26 year old tradition of Woodland Heights. This hundred year old neighborhood is a perfect setting for strolling (not driving) these tree-lined […]
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