Hot Heights Market This is the title of the Chronicle’s Neighborhood section “Ultimate Heights” last week. A page and and half was devoted to an interview with Heights Realtor, Rich Martin (yours truly) describing the current Heights market. I described how home sales are up 20-25% over last year. More importantly though, the days on [...]
by Rich on February 5, 2013
Woodland Heights Home Inventory is Low 4th quarter sales of Woodland Heights homes were only slightly higher than 4th Q of the previous year; 17 homes sold (15 in 4Q ‘11). This does not mean that activity is stagnant…just the opposite..there is just too little inventory to sell! I’ve had several clients wanting a bungalow in Woodland [...]
by Rich on December 28, 2012
Heights Home Sales Remain Very Strong Heights home prices are up and inventory is down. Heights home inventory is so low that I’ve had to show homes the day they come on the market in order to get offers in ahead of others. Location is still key of course, but the toughest homes to find [...]
by Rich on August 6, 2012
Heights Home Sales Boom Heights home sales are booming. Houston is a hot relocation center now for oil & energy related companies, and the Heights/Inner Loop is where a lot of them want to be. I would say about 1/3 of my sales this year came from energy people. I don’t know what else is [...]
by Rich on April 15, 2010
Houston Heights Price Trends The Houston Chronicle issued it’s yearly Subdivision Price Trends on 04/11/10. I extracted data for areas near the Heights,and surrounding neighborhoods in table below. Don’t look too closely at the price trends if there are very few sales. Woodland Heights for example (where I live) shows a decline in price. What [...]
by Rich on October 5, 2009
A Totally Chaotic Near North Real Estate Market! iTotal chaos is the only way to describe Houston’s Inner Loop & Near Nothside real estate market. Sales volume is down ~20%, but that alone doesn’t begin to describe it. Is it a buyer’s market? That’s what headlines would have you believe. But no. Sales are down, [...]