Where To Invest In Houston Real Estate Right Now

Any luck on your search?

 

What part of town did you buy in?

 

Heights off Yale. I love it. Easy access to downtown. Great restaurants and watering holes within walking distance. 2 HEBs going in within a mile.

 

Nice! We had a house just a couple of blocks West of Yale (Ashland) on 23rd Street. It was a bit rougher when we lived there, but we really enjoyed it. Easy walk over to the shops on 19th St and at the time, the Fiesta on Shepherd. We only spent a couple of years there before moving over to Oak Forest.

 

You were in Sunset Heights. Not cheap and ghetto anymore. The Fiesta is now a brand new 2 story HEB that opened 2 days ago. There really isn't anything left to gentrify in the Heights. It's all moved to Garden Oaks and Oak Forest. Many of the used car dealers on Shepherd have moved north. A residential tower is in the early stages at 15th and Shepherd.

 

Wow! That's crazy about the Fiesta! Our place on 23rd was a nice little 1300 square foot craftsman that we purchased for $89K in 1996. It was our first house. My parents thought we were crazy for paying that much money for a house in the Heights. We sold it a year and a half later for $130K when we moved to Oak Forest. As a car-crazed teenager, my friends and I loved checking out all of the used car places on Shepherd and Durham. Apparently I need to make trips to Houston more often to keep up with all of the changes in that area!

 

$500k or more now.

https://www.neighborhoods.com/sunset-heights-houston-tx

 

How about buy a condo at 2520 Robinhood and invest the rest of the money; you will be in West U with plenty leftover.

If you look in the 800K+ range townhomes in 77019, some will have elevators and close to 3000 sf.

Heights to West U can take some time.

Btw, there are quite a few who’s who that lives in 2727 Kirby.


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How is 2727, I'm heading to downtown in a bit

Heights, EaDo, and tons of other areas are hot for investing right now; me personally, I'm a renter. Too many deals on all the new high rises

 

The Deer Park fire is an excellent example of why you don't want to live in East Houston, or south of Beltway 8 for that matter. Air quality routinely sucks.

 

Still interested in the 2727, maybe someone can give me a showing? I just want safe parking and fast ass gigabit speeds

 

Quite a bit of the Heights used to be a dump. Even Heights Blvd.

My dad purchased a warehouse (he still occupies the building) in the Heights - 6 1/2 ST and Studewood. He paid 100K for the building in about 1976. o/t - My father is not leaving ten cents, for any of his children . ( He did not end up with another woman and or family ). Fortunately, he will leave quite a few solid assets, for all of the grand-kids.

The sad part was the 40 unit apartment complex just across the street, with an asking price just over 600K, in the early 1980's. They did not need any financing. His business was just across the street. This was a missed opportunity and managing the apartment could not have been difficult with the location across the street. Buying real estate in the Heights during the Jimmy Carter years = $$$$$$$. The apartment complex was a dump at the time, but the residents paid cash each week. Today, it is a row of upscale yuppie town-homes just north of 6th St.

The neighborhood changed for the better.

 

I am looking to buy some R.E. and I have registered with the foreclosure auctions. It's a tremendous amount of work to research the locations. Looking for homes in or around 150 - 200K.

 

That was a famous story, HOA gone amuck!!

OP come party at the Cottonwood with me, it's an interesting 'hood.
Big roll over in the Types of home that are going in. It's boomed built on annual value increase, but don't know if that ship has sailed.

 

That's wonderful news, even though you won't be "buying in" this time!!

Great news on your family as well!!

 

Congratulations on your dad's wonderful progress! That's fantastic!

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Great news on your dad! Congrats on the twins!

 

XOM, at a 15 year low. The Houston housing market must have enough hot air to fill a few extra balloons.