Heights News & Events
2011 Heights Home Tour Upcoming
A Couple of Heights Home Tours are Upcoming. 2011 Woodland Heights Home Tour March 26 & 27 Our Woodland Heights neighborhood struts its stuff for the city with six homes featured Saturday and Sunday, March 26-27, from 1 to 6 p.m. each day. Come visit an eclectic mix of historic homes at the Woodland Heights […]
Zillow’s Houston House Search Mobile App
Zillow’s Houston House Search Mobile App is Changing Home Searching As a Houston Inner Loop Realtor, I stay logged onto HAR.com MLS system constantly in my office. However, as I’m driving around with clients and I want to know about houses as we drive past them, HAR.com is too cumbersome. What I have been using […]
Development on Studewood-Studewood Place
New Heights Development on Studewood?…Studewood Place I just found out about Studewood Place. Until recently, I had not even looked behind the fence camouflaging the construction site at Studewood at 10th ½ St. in the Heights. Right behind my office, and I hadn’t even peeked. Too “busy” I guess. That’s probably true in many ways […]
Houston Chronicle Article on the Heights (Part 2)
Heights Blends Old and New (Part 2 of 2) A modification of this post was published in the Houston Chronicle on 01/09/11. It was only published in their print edition, not online: House Styles in the Heights Houston Heights was started in the 1890’s. The predominant house style at that time was the Victorian. The […]
Heights Blends Old & New – Houston Chronicle (Part 1)
Heights Blends Old & New (Part 1 of 2) The Houston Chronicle published an article on 01/09/11 with the title above: The following is what I provided as background information, presented in two parts: What Attracts Buyers to the Heights? The main attraction to the Heights is its old neighborhood feel. This cohesiveness comes from […]
Heights Holiday Events
Heights Holiday Events – Mistletoe Madness and More Living in Woodland Heights is a delight. I can’t think of anywhere else (in Houston anyway) that I would want to live. Woodland Heights and adjoining Houston Heights are especially outstanding this time of year. There is something about Christmas in a wonderful old neighborhood that is enriching to your soul. If […]
Recommended Houston Heights Homes for Sale
Houston Heights Homes for Sale – Recommendations. In a recent post I made fun of Realtor’s decriptive terms, like the word “charming” (I really don’t like that word applied to homes). See Charming Houston Heights Homes for Sale in a previous post. In this post I am continuing along the same vein, in describing how I narrow a search […]
Day of the Dead Celebration in Brooke Smith 2010
Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos is a holiday celebrated in Mexico and by Mexican Americans living here in the U.S. A celebration for the decesed. The biggest celebration I have seen was a few years ago in San Miguel de Allende. The Jardin was full of flower vendors selling bunches of marigolds; […]
Charming Houston Heights Home For Sale…No, No, Not Charming!
What Real Estate Terms Really Mean I recently had a client who wanted me to use the word “charming” in marketing her Houston Heights house. Now, charming seems like a nice word, and evokes fond memories of the past…but not in real estate! Charming is a cover up for old those problems of an aging […]
Wal-Mart is Coming to the Heights – Horrors !?
Okay, I can’t take it anymore. The “Stop Wal-Mart” hysteria is just stupid. I live in the Heights (Woodland Heights actually, across I-10 from Target); I love the Heights; I sell Heights homes for a living. It’s not like I’m an outsider. However, who the hell really thinks that Yale at Koehler is the Heights? […]
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