Houston Heights Realtor
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 [...]
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Houston Heights Historic Districts See my page on Houston Historic Districts for an overall look at Houston’s 20 historic districts. The Heights is an old part of Houston, one of the oldest planned communities in Texas. Houston Heights (named for it’s 23 foot elevation over the swampy downtown area) was formed in early 1890′s, and [...]
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Heights Historic Districts There are 7 Heights Historic Districts ,out of the 20 total for Houston. See my page on Houston Historic District Maps for information on the other historic districts and to search for homes in historic districts. This post will discuss 3 of these; Norhill, Woodland Heights and Germantown. Norhill was developed in the [...]
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Elegant Home in Heights Historic District Almost Complete I held open 625 Harvard St last Sunday and had a lot of visitors. For those of you following the progress on my blog or on MLS, you know it’s been a long process. The first time a house is held open you get all the neighbors, [...]
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A Victorian Historic Heights Renovation The renovation and expansion of 625 Harvard is near a turning point. Since the house is within one of the historic districts (Houston Heights South), the front exterior is original, with the expansion at the rear. Until recently 625 Harvard was difficult to show…it was a construction site. After the trim carpenters [...]
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Heights Renovation of 625 Harvard HDT Builders latest project, 625 Harvard St, in Historic Heights East has completed the trim stage and is being painted. If you aren’t familiar with Houston Heights, click on Neighborhood Pages at top of my site, or here for Houston Heights. The interior trim of the original house were matched [...]
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Historic District House for Sale – 625 Harvard St HDT Builders’ Expansion/Renovation of 625 Harvard St is in trim stage now and will be on MLS soon. Trim stage is just that: The trim work is being installed, and cabinets being built. You can now actually get a feel for the quality of work being [...]
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Near Northside Installs “Historic” Signs The sense of community in the Near Northside neighborhood, is showing again . It is now installing the “Historic Near Northside” sign toppers on street signs. Avenue CDC (see my post on its New Near Northside Development in the area) supported the area’s 2011 listing on the National Register of [...]
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Germantown Historic District Proposed Another Heights Historic District is about to be approved. (If approved, it will be the 7th in the Heights.) The subdivision of Grota Homestead is seeking historic designation by its original name of Germantown. Grota is a small neighborhood just East of Woodland Heights. Germantown is how it was originally platted [...]
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625 Harvard St-Update on HDT’s Remodel HDT’s renovation on Harvard St, in the Heights Historic District South is still progressing. The siding was installed so you get get a better feel for the space. It’s still tough to visualize with just the interior framing. When sheetrock is installed (next week hopefully) spaces can be better [...]
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