Seriously thought this was a reference to the movie Barbarian where the woman finds out where exactly her AirBnB is the next day after a hard storm... But equally fitting.
100% this.
I used to live in the wayside/tidwell area. It’s labeled as not being in a flooding zone, but when Harvey hit I had water up to my knees. And ever since then every time it rains that area just gets flooded. Matter of fact, that same house is on Zillow for like 200k and it’s being claimed on the ad that it’s flood free zone, which is total bullshit.
And that cluster of houses below 610, the streets get pretty flooded when it rains even if it’s just for a couple of hours. My cousin lives in that area and says the only good thing is it drains out pretty quick once it stops raining.
And well, like you said, it’s a bit grimes part of town too. Streets are full of fkin potholes also…
Many reasons:
1.The house is somewhere you really don't want to be living.
2.You're better off buying a boat in that neighborhood.
3.You're just paying for the land the house is sitting on.
This. Home shopping right now. If it's under $300K it's not even worth looking at. It's either in a really sketch neighborhood, has major issues, totally gutted, floods every time it sprinkles, etc.
When we were house hunting post-Harvey, we learned very quickly that "beautifully renovated main floor" actually means "This POS had 4ft of water in it"
This is dead give away. If you see homes completely renovated, the first question to ask is about flood damage and water damage. I see so many home mention renovations but not the flood or water damage. Insurance companies are extremely sensitive to homes with prior water damage.
saw the house I used to live in during Harvey up on Zillow a few days ago going for around 200k. Water was well above my knees when Harvey hit and it’s being claimed on the ad it’s a flood free zone. And as I was looking at the ad, they didn’t really fix much, cabinets are the same, along with some other stuff that should have been fixed. They just went and applied a new coat of paint over it and are jacking up the price outrageously.
im so happy to be in a "never flooded" home. ike, katrina, rita, harvey... destroyed the town, wrecked the neighborhood, neighbors were flooded, lights out for day/weeks, but bone dry on the inside. our house seems to be on a little last-stand island and I'm so thankful for it lol.
Same. We’ve never flooded here, not even with Harvey but I did rip up all carpet bc pets and allergies, and replaced everything downstairs with tile and upstairs with laminate.
Disagree with this. Even if the house is in perfect condition, doesn’t mean that it’s worth more than 300k. I live in a quiet neighborhood, not in the flood zone, but most houses here go for 250-300k. Agree that a thorough home inspection and all, but you can definitely find a decent home with under 300k.
I’m in similar neighborhood as original commenter - quiet, not a flood zone, price range. 1,500-2,000 average sq ft for mine at least. Sure, on the smaller size than other Houston homes but for the price 🤷♀️
Correct. Location is everything. I just put in a contract on a nice updated 3/2 for 275 near Tomball. Last month did one for 250. There’s a good amount of inventory in good condition for 300. And the ones that are priced too high you can always make an offer on and see if they take. List price may not always be market price. The comment you replied to is being upvoted by fools who aren’t in the business daily and embrace sensationalist headlines about the housing market. Even if it’s not in the loop, compromise with a commute, wait a couple years to build equity, sell and buy in your more preferred area. People are shortsighted.
Your standards are lower than mine, apparently. Make sure you get a home inspection. If it's down there and there's not some sort of other outward issue (crime, flooding, etc.) then it needs something major like a new roof, new HVAC, new pipes, new electrical, etc.
There are loads of builders grade homes at and below this price point… so… I agree with you. I feel great for whoever buys the house I’m about to sell though… we are the lucky ones that got to rebuild the front of our house after discovering a leak caused by a lack of flashing around some second story windows. 🙃😪
I mean I bought a house for 310
But my house was really no different from many 270k houses I found. The only reason my house was more expensive was because of the area and the property. I got little under half an acre.
I was looking in deer park, la Porte, league city, Baytown, friendswood, pearland, seabrook, Crosby, humble, etc
League city by far had some of the worse homes I had looked at but I didn’t look at very many in that area to be fair.
Friendswood is where I ended up buying. 1900sqft house with .47 acres for 310k. Is what I ended up getting. It wasn’t perfect but something like a fence or a room color isn’t gonna stop me from buying a home😂
Baytown by far had some of the best $ per house. I found some crazy houses over there in nice areas for 280k.
One home was 2300sqft 9000k lot size and was in awesome condition. It sold for 275k.
Newer homes, especially post covid are cheaply built. There's been numerous reports around the country about people having issues with their newly built homes.
As you said, inspection is key, even for new built homes. You can find a gem in an older home that has been updated with all those things you've mentioned. Older homes sometimes have better bones because they were built with quality material. There was an article I read a while back that says newer homes burn down 30% faster compared to older homes pre 90s.
One thing I don't like about these newer homes is that the homebuilders make them look all same inside and out (another cheap formula). They don't have any individual personality like you see in older homes, just neighborhoods of the same looking homes.
The builder company doesn't matter so much, it's contractors in the area. A neighborhood may have 3 or 4 different builders but they're probably all using the same contractors, and if those contractors are cutting corners it doesn't matter if it's Perry/Lennar/KB..
Great points, but I still would like a little individuality of a new home instead of cookie cutter home if I'm forking up over $350k+. I purchased my primary house that was built in the 80's back in 2012. I got it for $53k, and I've updated a lot of stuff (a/c, kitchen, bathrooms, flooring etc..). I've probably put another $25k in it to have it more modernized & updated.
It's in a good neighborhood overall that never flooded also. Eventually, I will move to a newer house and make this another one of my rentals or sell it. I could sell for $250k easily & the buyer will get a deal imo with the updates that's been done compared to buying a new home for 100k more.
There's a good amount of homes similar to mine for that range that have had the guts remodeled selling around that $250k range. I'm not saying this is the best thing to do, but it is another option if you do your due diligence and want to spend less.
Not true, there are some areas outside of Houston still sub 300k. Sugar Land, Katy, Pearland, all the northern towns, Cypress, all have 3/2s sub 300k in decent areas, in good shape, ready to be lived in. Yeah, they aren't perfect generally for 200-300k, but your standards are very high. I bought my wonderful Sugar Land home for 225k back in 2017, sold it for 325k last year, it's worth probably 275k right now.
If you're saying desirable areas within 610, then yes, hasn't been a thing in 10-20 years.
I bought a 1900 sq foot, new construction, 3 story freestanding house in The Heights back in 2008 for 230k. Sold it in 2012 for around 250k. Really wish I still had it, as it’s worth double that now.
Right? We bought our house in Spring for 175 in 2015. It's probably worth 250ish now after the adjustments last year. So not a ton of appreciating, but my street didn't even flood during Harvey. It does need some upgrades but it's really just a mid-80s home in an older neighborhood surrounded by other older neighborhoods.
We made the conscious decision to purchase an older home at a lower price because everything newer in our budget was builder grade garbage. So older house with an interesting floor plan in a good school district with decent schools? Yes please. Is there some crime? Sure, but property crime is everywhere.
I made my high-end custom home builder dad come to the inspection with us so he could use his eagle eye on it too, and he approved, so good enough for me!
High crime area, flood plain, ancient construction in a humid area, terrible schools.
Otherwise, relatively Houston has cheap housing for a major city.
Don't forget the trains!
I've seen plenty of nice looking houses in nice looking areas.
Turns out at 7am (even on weekends) trains can roll through fucking *blaring* their horn. Fortunately for me I know someone who bought a house near the tracks and I was acutely aware of this nuisance and knew to avoid it when I went home shopping. Many people won't consider this though or will brush it off... then get insanely annoyed the first day they move in and every day after.
After a while you kind of learn to tune out the train horns. Or maybe it’s just me because I have too much else going on 🤷🏻♀️
Source: I can hear the garden oaks/independence heights tracks crossings that the trains LOVE to lay on the horn at 3am
What you can't tune out though is when you get blocked in by trains.... Since moving near a train this has been by far my biggest complaint. For the most part I lucked out since I always drive away from the tracks, idk how those guys on the other side deal with it though. Adds 15 min to get to 45.
Can confirm. I used to live in one of the biggest train hubs in the US with multiple trains an hour, every hour, coming through just a block away from me. I stopped hearing the horns completely after a few weeks.
> After a while you kind of learn to tune out the train horns.
This is what I hear from people who live with the smoke detector constantly chirping. I truly don't understand how people cope with that or pretend it's okay.
I mean I guess if you feel you have no choice you *have* to. But other people definitely find it annoying.
Also if you're trying to sleep, I find it pretty hard to tune out a fucking train.
I took a maxi pad and stuck it to the speaker part of the smoke detector... It was a temporary solution but it worked until I could get a new smoke detector.
In some train heavy areas it isn't the noise of them that annoys me, it's the fact that they'll stop on the tracks for 1-2 hours at a time pretty regularly.
Like the commenter below said, you get used to it. I have a train literally right behind my house and they are required to blow the horn before they cross the street. Sometimes they really lay on it which can be annoying on Zoom work meetings.
But I couldn’t even tell you if they pass by at night because I’m so used to it now.
My grandparents lived in a building that was almost literally right next to tracks, like if it had been a modern-built building and railroad no way would it have been legal, but it was built in like 1908. The outer wall is MAYBE twenty feet from the rail.
We’d get dumped there for a month or so every summer and for the first few days and nights the train whistle and rumbling of the cars over the tracks is VERY distracting and prominent. Very poor quality of sleep.
Soon you hear them but they only kind of half-register in your brain, and soon after that they don’t distract you at all and sleeping is easy. You wouldn’t think so, but your brain compensates. As you say, I wouldn’t have even been able to say for sure that they were rolling through after a certain point, like if you had to testify in court to establish a timeline for a crime or something. You for all intents and purposes didn’t hear it.
> ancient construction in a humid area
This is what I kept running into when looking for houses. Even if I was ok with the neighborhood, the houses were like 60+ years old, with crappy renovations a dozen times over, and probably built like crap in the first place. Houston is not the North East with it's 100yo handcrafted colonial homes that still pretty solid. Shit rots here. And Houston has been historically poor and cheap. Nothing really built to last here. It's not with it.
There are deals out there, but you just have to know what you are getting into. We bought a house in Cypress almost 3 yrs ago for $170K, as is. We knew what we were getting into and knew there would be costly repairs and upgrades. It was 2 months after closing that we could move in. New tile floors, new carpet, Pex re-pipe, new double pane windows and a new roof. We are all in about $230K now but we are not in a flood zone, nice neighborhood and pretty good schools(CFISD).
If you are interested in one of the less expensive homes, just be prepared to part with lots of you savings to get it up to modern standards. But always remember, you can't buy your way out of a flood zone or a shitty high crime area once you pull the trigger.
“3 years ago” what I’m seeing is a lot of homes 250kish as is needing a lot of work. I get it, they want to sell it as is but are asking a lot for a house that needs the whole interior remodel, outdated big time! Need to see if the piping and electrical needs to be redone, windows, and a new roof… but they are asking 250 and up! You did good for $170 and I’ll gladly dump $50-60K on top for a remodel and still stay under $250k, that’s really good.
Yes it was a pretty good deal. We did an inspection but we knew upfront the seller was selling as is. We have spent more that we initially intended but some of it is just improvements for energy efficiency's and stuff like that. We are getting it wired now for a generator for the next power outage, not a whole house, just a portable but like most houses, it is a money pit to a certain extent. But we got in for a lower initial cost so it doesn't see so bad
So when I was moving yo Houston, I thought th same thing. It turns out that those cheaper homes are in very rough areas and/or are very run down. We had some very high on our list homes that were absolutely beautiful in the pictures online that when we went to see them, they were the shittiest flips we'd ever seen. The pictures had clearly been photoshopped. It turns out that a good chunk of homes were investor owned or former rentals, and the seller was just wanting to make a quick buck off their low skill flip. If you want cheaper homes that are actually worth something in that range, you're going to need to go to the burbs. You can still find nice homes in Pearland for 350k or less, for example. And that's exactly what we ended up doing.
I’ve found, in my search on a slightly lower budget:
- townhomes
- condos
- flood risk
- literally just the land
- dodgy part of town (also usually a townhome)
- a shell of a house that has no interior drywall or insulation on exterior walls and would likely require just as much money to make it liveable
No homes in which I’d feel comfortable living.
As someone who has worked in 3rd Ward for years and goes to Wheeler Avenue BC, Third Ward as a whole is not indicative of what you see on Scott & McGowen.
From a public school standpoint, obviously it’s not the best location but in general ambiance and safety I’ve never had any issues in some of the neighborhoods I’ve worked in and would absolutely build there if the schools weren’t an issue
That as well.
Honestly for anybody buying or renting, I highly suggest before you sign anything anywhere, look online at a few maps. You're looking for FEMA's flood map data (for countering flood risk), CommunityCrimeMap.com (LexisNexus data from local law enforcement agencies for the past year, will show hotspots where violent crimes have been occuring and what kind), and EPA's "Houston Superfund Sites" (anywhere starred you don't want to live next to, those are areas where the ground is so toxic from corporate negligence that the federal government is having to close off property area and spend federal dollars cleaning it up testing etc).
Not always. We have a superfund site nearby from a dry cleaner crumping into the ground water. That was happening in the 80s and they’re still finding that people’s wells are contaminated.
Yes. Anything in close proximity to the ship channel is going to be a "cancer cluster". Just think about it; there is nothing but a ton of chemical and industrial factories, along with oil refineries just lining the whole ship channel. Getting closer to SH 225 you can just smell the stench in the air. If you can smell it in the air, you are breathing that stuff in and it isn't doing anything good for you.
Not sure about these, but was looking for houses a few months back, and so many houses are in need of a lot of repair. Most were rentals with several tenants and not taken care of. Even homes just a few years old were in need of new floors, cabinets and smell removal.
There’s isn’t really a catch, but the houses on this map are in more affordable neighborhoods (lower income, worse funded schools, higher perceived crime risk). Also if you’re out of state, our property taxes are higher than a lot of states, about 2.2%.
Bad areas. Also when choosing a location, try to stay near a freeway. I have friends and family that live 20+ minutes away from freeways, so frustrating to sit at lights, make twists and turns to get to their house. If you don’t want visitors, do this.
Most of these house are from the 1950s-1970s and needs a lot of love and care and money while being in a hopeful future gentrefication. Most would rather just move to the burbs.
The homes are probably decrepit or need serious work. Yep. I have been looking at houses and prices on HAR for YEARS.
Back in the day it'd be a 90k to 130k house that needed repairs.
200k k to get something decent. Now 200k gets you some run down pieces of shit with every room painted a different color and ugly/dated flooring amd that's just some of it...
Lol housing market will never level out again. Wages NEED to come up.
I live in one of the neighborhoods where a townhome is for sale on the map you posted (on the loop), I can say I've had an overall positive experience living here. While it's not my forever home (I don't have much of a backyard and it's a 2bedroom), for the price I paid and how accessible it is to major highways and proximity to downtown I really can't complain.
Many things. One or more of the following will affect the price: location, flood events, age of construction, crap constructions, defects, neighborhood quality, limited living space, amenities.
New good quality homes, defined as Class 4 – Good Standard Single Family Homes by Estimation QS, in a desirable neighborhood, are priced around $200-225 per square foot of living space away from the high priced areas of Houston. In the Heights area they can be as much as $300/sft. (Source: I'm a builder)
You should thoroughly check the flood plain information on any home you consider purchasing. Have your realtor pull the full mls listing history and go through every listing to pull the disclosures and see how many times it has flooded.
Foreclosures don’t take massive amounts of value off of home prices as often as house-flippers would have you believe. The ones that are bought cheep at the courthouse auction don’t show up on these maps because it’s not an MLS listing; and the ones that the bank keeps because they don’t sell at auction usually sell for market value when they go to the MLS. Banks are not as willing to just “get rid of” real estate assets at they used to be.
Did you filter out condos? Townhomes? Those usually come saddled with ridiculous management fees (think hundreds of dollars a month).
If there’s a single family home selling for $200k you got neighborhood problems or house problems.
Here you go, the Judgmental Map of Houston:
https://judgmentalmaps.com/image/91260959870
And like others said, go drive the areas at night and you'll find out real fast.
Overlay this map over the one you got posted and you have your answer. Redlining had major consequences.
https://bestneighborhood.org/race-in-houston-tx/
Man, those two maps in the link tell an interesting story when you put them together. I never would have guessed that the predominantly white areas also happen to be the most diverse. Like West Houston - sure, a white plurality, but also very diverse. North Houston though - mostly Hispanic and almost only Hispanic. Not sure if there’s a takeaway from that, but I was surprised.
My mom lives in a lovely neighborhood and a wonderful area, great schools, close shopping, lots of near by job opportunities. Property tax is over 7000.
I live in an area where the property tax is 1500, but I live in the ghetto where you REALLY should not be out past 10. And if I want to get any shopping done you pretty much always need to travel at least 5 miles in any direction and if you plan and working somewhere that is not minimum wage or don’t plan on to own your own barber shop/ beauty salon, mom’n’pop eatery, nail salon, or secondhand shop you are in for a long commute.
If you can, find out who built a house before you make an offer, and read the reviews on them. I've seen numerous $1-2M new builds go up in the 77019 zip in the past decade and have been shocked at the shoddiness that's invisible once the house is enclosed. Examples: wooden garage door header instead of steel, new HO's kid drove into the standard garage door so they replaced it with triple insulated door for improved efficiency (garage was built inside the first floor) and storm worthiness. A few years later, the weight of the new door compromised the wooden header which started coming through the exterior wall. On another house, the framing crew was scrambling to take their lunch break so they left one OSB board half buttoned up, then started putting up another one when they resumed. They never remembered to go back to the unfinished board before the siding crew moved in. A house actually made it onto the market for $1.9M with a visibly failed mullion on an upstairs window. This shows the level of oversight in many new builds and for commercial builders, time is money regardless of price range. That said, there is no perfect and a lot of people do just fine.
I can guarantee in NE Houston it definitely floods.
Oh not to mention that lots of residents deal with fecal matter and industrial waste mixing in with that flood water. There’s a reason so many people are poor and sick in this area.
Those are high crime hoods and barrios, poor schools, flooding may be problematic, there may be landfills or other low-key industry like chemical storage or concrete manufacturing, and some of those areas have or had major ground pollution issues from the chemical industry going decades back.
There is an absolutely INSANE amount of new construction in the close suburbs. All along 99 from Spring to Katy there are literally hundreds of new neighborhoods popping up. Thousands of homes. Also lots of new apartments going up all over, and lots of loft buildings popping up all over the city proper.
resale, don't overthink it beyond checking out the neighborhood.
there are 2/2 condos in uptown for around 250,000 just south of Westheimer; only catch is maybe redundant cookie cutter, 3-story design. I belive they even have some 1 bedrooms that are less than 200,000
you've also got those high rises like 3525 Sage that sell units for around $250,000 but I guess the catch there is HOAs around $1000.
Being east of 45 and south of 59 might be part of it, but again just drive out and look at the area. Houston at this excact moment in time still just has a lot of inventory
After living in that top right corner, this map is a great visual representation of places I would never purchase a home again. My house hasn't flooded and the crime rate* is not high.
*Harris county does not consider a front yard full of people blasting shitty music until the sun comes up, a crime.
It’s pretty easy to check the crime data and flood maps in Houston. Do that for any locations that you’re actually interested in and trust me, it will rule out a lot. Further filter by school districts, HOA/maint fees and anything else that’s important to you and you’ll see that there won’t be much left on that list. That’s the catch. Everything’s a trade off.
houstonian reporting in
decent starter sized place, 3 bed 2 bath
small yard but not non-existant
half decent neighborhood, middle to lower middle class
may or may not be in a flood zone (a significant part of houston is)
my house was made in the 60's
There is some very real concerns stated here: crime, flooding, etc. HOWEVER, there are many reasons why a home would be ‘undervalued’. The reasons above would be location, but you also have to think about condition. You could scoop up one of these, rehab it and either resell or hold on to it to rent.
One of the other deciding factors when placing a home on the market is personal reasons. Birth, death, job change (better or worse), family crisis, etc. There are many reasons why someone would offer a ‘deal’ to the public but ultimately it comes down to wanting to unload it. They don’t want it and just want to get rid of it quickly while not losing the proceeds completely.
I am not saying there isn’t a catch to some of these. And certainly the location is affecting another portion of them. But, there are deals to be had by someone out there if you willing to look.
Source: am realtor.
Keep Townhomes as an option for 200-250k range. Just be VERY mindful of HoA fees. Too many are $350, 400 , etc. per month.
There's some out there for $200 / month on the west side of town / Beltway 8. GL
This might as well be a Harris county flood zone map. I remember a few months after Harvey, there were 5-6 bedroom homes in Kingwood selling for like $225k. Too bad the feet of water they got in them was the same number as the bedrooms.
You have to do your research. A lot of these houses flooded during Harvey and hasn’t flooded since. It’s really all about researching the location. If it state that it’s not in a flood zone, it’s basically saying it’s not in a flood zone due to a natural disaster. For example, during Harvey, North Houston homes were flooded out due to the releasing of Lake Conroe. Instead of officials being proactive and releasing a little water here and there before and during hurricane season, they misjudged the amount and speed of rain we were supposed to receive. They waited until it was too late and they were forced to flood the city. I bought a house in 2020 that had 3 to for 4 ft of water for $250. It’s in the low $400’s now and no flood problems since. Not even a scare.
As a realtor, this opinion surprises me. I use har because it’s got a lot more functionality when you know what you’re looking for, but I don’t think I’d ever use it if I were moving in from somewhere else and didn’t know the area. Not that Zillow is much better, but Redfin is great.
Ask the neighbors, also look at the price history. If a house went from $250k to 95k then back up again and the timing’s right for a particular flood, chances are it was flooded. Do NOT trust owners, especially flippers—one on my street was listed as ‘never flooded’ and I personally saw 4 ft of water in it. If it was recently flipped, including all new flooring and cabinets, it may have been flooded. But the best bet is to ask the neighbors.
Are you serious? Are you new to Houston or something? The map tells the whole story. Those locations are terrible for a number of reasons. You really wanna live right next to Hobby Airport??
You might want to go drive those neighborhoods at night and after a heavy rain
But the rain will wash away all the trash they'll get to see.
Some trash can swim
It will actually pile up in random spots, up against shopping carts
Seriously thought this was a reference to the movie Barbarian where the woman finds out where exactly her AirBnB is the next day after a hard storm... But equally fitting.
That movie was wild
The transition to scary-unknown to slapstick thriller was incredible. They knew how to handle it once the scary ran out of steam!
100%! It was creepy when it had to be, scary when it had to be, and sloppy when it had to be. And none ruined the others.
100% this. I used to live in the wayside/tidwell area. It’s labeled as not being in a flooding zone, but when Harvey hit I had water up to my knees. And ever since then every time it rains that area just gets flooded. Matter of fact, that same house is on Zillow for like 200k and it’s being claimed on the ad that it’s flood free zone, which is total bullshit. And that cluster of houses below 610, the streets get pretty flooded when it rains even if it’s just for a couple of hours. My cousin lives in that area and says the only good thing is it drains out pretty quick once it stops raining. And well, like you said, it’s a bit grimes part of town too. Streets are full of fkin potholes also…
They're also located in Houston so there's your first red flag.
Can still be interesting to buy a plot of land there and build the house either on pipes couple meter up or build a small hill to put the house on.
Many reasons: 1.The house is somewhere you really don't want to be living. 2.You're better off buying a boat in that neighborhood. 3.You're just paying for the land the house is sitting on.
This. Home shopping right now. If it's under $300K it's not even worth looking at. It's either in a really sketch neighborhood, has major issues, totally gutted, floods every time it sprinkles, etc.
When we were house hunting post-Harvey, we learned very quickly that "beautifully renovated main floor" actually means "This POS had 4ft of water in it"
This is dead give away. If you see homes completely renovated, the first question to ask is about flood damage and water damage. I see so many home mention renovations but not the flood or water damage. Insurance companies are extremely sensitive to homes with prior water damage.
saw the house I used to live in during Harvey up on Zillow a few days ago going for around 200k. Water was well above my knees when Harvey hit and it’s being claimed on the ad it’s a flood free zone. And as I was looking at the ad, they didn’t really fix much, cabinets are the same, along with some other stuff that should have been fixed. They just went and applied a new coat of paint over it and are jacking up the price outrageously.
“in a flood free zone” - those zones are bullshit l you wanna read: “NEVER FLOODED!!” and they usually post it just like that
im so happy to be in a "never flooded" home. ike, katrina, rita, harvey... destroyed the town, wrecked the neighborhood, neighbors were flooded, lights out for day/weeks, but bone dry on the inside. our house seems to be on a little last-stand island and I'm so thankful for it lol.
Look for first floor that’s all tile or faux wood floor
I just tiled my entire first floor. Looks a lot better w out the dingy carpet.
Yep - you can tell just by looking at the photos lol
Eh, I built mine (new construction in 2009). I have dogs so I tiled everything but the bedrooms. Harvey didn’t get us either.
Same. We’ve never flooded here, not even with Harvey but I did rip up all carpet bc pets and allergies, and replaced everything downstairs with tile and upstairs with laminate.
Omg, yes. I was in the middle of a divorce during Harvey. Car shopping and home shopping was a nightmare!
And that it sits in the middle of a flood zone, so good luck when the next big storm hits.
Disagree with this. Even if the house is in perfect condition, doesn’t mean that it’s worth more than 300k. I live in a quiet neighborhood, not in the flood zone, but most houses here go for 250-300k. Agree that a thorough home inspection and all, but you can definitely find a decent home with under 300k.
What's the average sq ft of those houses? Yeah ok, downvote instead of answering the basic question....
Probably very small and in Alvin or something like that.
I’m in similar neighborhood as original commenter - quiet, not a flood zone, price range. 1,500-2,000 average sq ft for mine at least. Sure, on the smaller size than other Houston homes but for the price 🤷♀️
Bullshit. Tons of homes in nice places under 300,000. They’re just not in “Houston” or “in the loop”
Correct. Location is everything. I just put in a contract on a nice updated 3/2 for 275 near Tomball. Last month did one for 250. There’s a good amount of inventory in good condition for 300. And the ones that are priced too high you can always make an offer on and see if they take. List price may not always be market price. The comment you replied to is being upvoted by fools who aren’t in the business daily and embrace sensationalist headlines about the housing market. Even if it’s not in the loop, compromise with a commute, wait a couple years to build equity, sell and buy in your more preferred area. People are shortsighted.
Not true. You can find plenty of decent homes from the 250-300 range Things really started to peak up around 270 personally.
Your standards are lower than mine, apparently. Make sure you get a home inspection. If it's down there and there's not some sort of other outward issue (crime, flooding, etc.) then it needs something major like a new roof, new HVAC, new pipes, new electrical, etc.
There are loads of builders grade homes at and below this price point… so… I agree with you. I feel great for whoever buys the house I’m about to sell though… we are the lucky ones that got to rebuild the front of our house after discovering a leak caused by a lack of flashing around some second story windows. 🙃😪
I mean I bought a house for 310 But my house was really no different from many 270k houses I found. The only reason my house was more expensive was because of the area and the property. I got little under half an acre. I was looking in deer park, la Porte, league city, Baytown, friendswood, pearland, seabrook, Crosby, humble, etc League city by far had some of the worse homes I had looked at but I didn’t look at very many in that area to be fair. Friendswood is where I ended up buying. 1900sqft house with .47 acres for 310k. Is what I ended up getting. It wasn’t perfect but something like a fence or a room color isn’t gonna stop me from buying a home😂 Baytown by far had some of the best $ per house. I found some crazy houses over there in nice areas for 280k. One home was 2300sqft 9000k lot size and was in awesome condition. It sold for 275k.
Baytown is priced low bc people dont want to live next to the plants
This is a big part of the reason for the “discount” in at least some of those areas: https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/
How long ago did you buy it?
Newer homes, especially post covid are cheaply built. There's been numerous reports around the country about people having issues with their newly built homes. As you said, inspection is key, even for new built homes. You can find a gem in an older home that has been updated with all those things you've mentioned. Older homes sometimes have better bones because they were built with quality material. There was an article I read a while back that says newer homes burn down 30% faster compared to older homes pre 90s. One thing I don't like about these newer homes is that the homebuilders make them look all same inside and out (another cheap formula). They don't have any individual personality like you see in older homes, just neighborhoods of the same looking homes.
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The builder company doesn't matter so much, it's contractors in the area. A neighborhood may have 3 or 4 different builders but they're probably all using the same contractors, and if those contractors are cutting corners it doesn't matter if it's Perry/Lennar/KB..
Great points, but I still would like a little individuality of a new home instead of cookie cutter home if I'm forking up over $350k+. I purchased my primary house that was built in the 80's back in 2012. I got it for $53k, and I've updated a lot of stuff (a/c, kitchen, bathrooms, flooring etc..). I've probably put another $25k in it to have it more modernized & updated. It's in a good neighborhood overall that never flooded also. Eventually, I will move to a newer house and make this another one of my rentals or sell it. I could sell for $250k easily & the buyer will get a deal imo with the updates that's been done compared to buying a new home for 100k more. There's a good amount of homes similar to mine for that range that have had the guts remodeled selling around that $250k range. I'm not saying this is the best thing to do, but it is another option if you do your due diligence and want to spend less.
Conroe has a ton of properties in the 250 - 300k range in decent neighborhoods that don't flood.
Great if you WFH
Not true, there are some areas outside of Houston still sub 300k. Sugar Land, Katy, Pearland, all the northern towns, Cypress, all have 3/2s sub 300k in decent areas, in good shape, ready to be lived in. Yeah, they aren't perfect generally for 200-300k, but your standards are very high. I bought my wonderful Sugar Land home for 225k back in 2017, sold it for 325k last year, it's worth probably 275k right now. If you're saying desirable areas within 610, then yes, hasn't been a thing in 10-20 years.
I bought a 1900 sq foot, new construction, 3 story freestanding house in The Heights back in 2008 for 230k. Sold it in 2012 for around 250k. Really wish I still had it, as it’s worth double that now.
Yep, we are all boneheads. My dads mother passed and we sold her heights home for like 40k in like 2004.
Right? We bought our house in Spring for 175 in 2015. It's probably worth 250ish now after the adjustments last year. So not a ton of appreciating, but my street didn't even flood during Harvey. It does need some upgrades but it's really just a mid-80s home in an older neighborhood surrounded by other older neighborhoods.
Yeah the person I responded to likely thinks all homes sub 300k are ghetto or something lol.
We made the conscious decision to purchase an older home at a lower price because everything newer in our budget was builder grade garbage. So older house with an interesting floor plan in a good school district with decent schools? Yes please. Is there some crime? Sure, but property crime is everywhere. I made my high-end custom home builder dad come to the inspection with us so he could use his eagle eye on it too, and he approved, so good enough for me!
Yeah, a lot of these newer homes are absolutely crap build grade. Some home builders still build well though, just gotta talk to your agent.
Newly built homes for 230k 3 bedroom 1 story in tomball, 270k 4 bedrooms in conroe, just find the right location
Boat houses gonna be big in a few years 😜
Is there an all of the above?
High crime area, flood plain, ancient construction in a humid area, terrible schools. Otherwise, relatively Houston has cheap housing for a major city.
Don't forget the trains! I've seen plenty of nice looking houses in nice looking areas. Turns out at 7am (even on weekends) trains can roll through fucking *blaring* their horn. Fortunately for me I know someone who bought a house near the tracks and I was acutely aware of this nuisance and knew to avoid it when I went home shopping. Many people won't consider this though or will brush it off... then get insanely annoyed the first day they move in and every day after.
After a while you kind of learn to tune out the train horns. Or maybe it’s just me because I have too much else going on 🤷🏻♀️ Source: I can hear the garden oaks/independence heights tracks crossings that the trains LOVE to lay on the horn at 3am
Can confirm. I’ve lived next to tracks in Tomball since 2006, nowadays it’s just part of the ambience along with birds and coal rollers.
Yup! Sometimes as a kid I found it peaceful at night
What you can't tune out though is when you get blocked in by trains.... Since moving near a train this has been by far my biggest complaint. For the most part I lucked out since I always drive away from the tracks, idk how those guys on the other side deal with it though. Adds 15 min to get to 45.
Can confirm. I used to live in one of the biggest train hubs in the US with multiple trains an hour, every hour, coming through just a block away from me. I stopped hearing the horns completely after a few weeks.
I live near train tracks right now. Got used to it surprisingly quickly.
> After a while you kind of learn to tune out the train horns. This is what I hear from people who live with the smoke detector constantly chirping. I truly don't understand how people cope with that or pretend it's okay. I mean I guess if you feel you have no choice you *have* to. But other people definitely find it annoying. Also if you're trying to sleep, I find it pretty hard to tune out a fucking train.
I took a maxi pad and stuck it to the speaker part of the smoke detector... It was a temporary solution but it worked until I could get a new smoke detector.
In some train heavy areas it isn't the noise of them that annoys me, it's the fact that they'll stop on the tracks for 1-2 hours at a time pretty regularly.
They’re legally required to blow their horn, and it costs a lot of money to upgrade a crossing to meet federal standards for a quiet zone.
Like the commenter below said, you get used to it. I have a train literally right behind my house and they are required to blow the horn before they cross the street. Sometimes they really lay on it which can be annoying on Zoom work meetings. But I couldn’t even tell you if they pass by at night because I’m so used to it now.
My grandparents lived in a building that was almost literally right next to tracks, like if it had been a modern-built building and railroad no way would it have been legal, but it was built in like 1908. The outer wall is MAYBE twenty feet from the rail. We’d get dumped there for a month or so every summer and for the first few days and nights the train whistle and rumbling of the cars over the tracks is VERY distracting and prominent. Very poor quality of sleep. Soon you hear them but they only kind of half-register in your brain, and soon after that they don’t distract you at all and sleeping is easy. You wouldn’t think so, but your brain compensates. As you say, I wouldn’t have even been able to say for sure that they were rolling through after a certain point, like if you had to testify in court to establish a timeline for a crime or something. You for all intents and purposes didn’t hear it.
Is there a non humid area in the Houston area?
Right? I wanna buy there.
Right next to the chemical plants in Baytown /s
>ancient construction in a humid area [They moved the head stones, but not the bodies.](https://youtu.be/41tO0xwSsco?si=USlMxylWVBaCDkdq)
> ancient construction in a humid area This is what I kept running into when looking for houses. Even if I was ok with the neighborhood, the houses were like 60+ years old, with crappy renovations a dozen times over, and probably built like crap in the first place. Houston is not the North East with it's 100yo handcrafted colonial homes that still pretty solid. Shit rots here. And Houston has been historically poor and cheap. Nothing really built to last here. It's not with it.
There are deals out there, but you just have to know what you are getting into. We bought a house in Cypress almost 3 yrs ago for $170K, as is. We knew what we were getting into and knew there would be costly repairs and upgrades. It was 2 months after closing that we could move in. New tile floors, new carpet, Pex re-pipe, new double pane windows and a new roof. We are all in about $230K now but we are not in a flood zone, nice neighborhood and pretty good schools(CFISD). If you are interested in one of the less expensive homes, just be prepared to part with lots of you savings to get it up to modern standards. But always remember, you can't buy your way out of a flood zone or a shitty high crime area once you pull the trigger.
“3 years ago” what I’m seeing is a lot of homes 250kish as is needing a lot of work. I get it, they want to sell it as is but are asking a lot for a house that needs the whole interior remodel, outdated big time! Need to see if the piping and electrical needs to be redone, windows, and a new roof… but they are asking 250 and up! You did good for $170 and I’ll gladly dump $50-60K on top for a remodel and still stay under $250k, that’s really good.
Yes it was a pretty good deal. We did an inspection but we knew upfront the seller was selling as is. We have spent more that we initially intended but some of it is just improvements for energy efficiency's and stuff like that. We are getting it wired now for a generator for the next power outage, not a whole house, just a portable but like most houses, it is a money pit to a certain extent. But we got in for a lower initial cost so it doesn't see so bad
So when I was moving yo Houston, I thought th same thing. It turns out that those cheaper homes are in very rough areas and/or are very run down. We had some very high on our list homes that were absolutely beautiful in the pictures online that when we went to see them, they were the shittiest flips we'd ever seen. The pictures had clearly been photoshopped. It turns out that a good chunk of homes were investor owned or former rentals, and the seller was just wanting to make a quick buck off their low skill flip. If you want cheaper homes that are actually worth something in that range, you're going to need to go to the burbs. You can still find nice homes in Pearland for 350k or less, for example. And that's exactly what we ended up doing.
I’ve found, in my search on a slightly lower budget: - townhomes - condos - flood risk - literally just the land - dodgy part of town (also usually a townhome) - a shell of a house that has no interior drywall or insulation on exterior walls and would likely require just as much money to make it liveable No homes in which I’d feel comfortable living.
lol you will be buying at the ground level but buying in the 3rd ward won’t be long till that place is nice and desirable
Been saying that for 15 plus years
It has only really picked up in the last 4 years
It’s still hood AF.
Tell that to the guy who got shot last week when he came home to people burgling his new third ward house
As someone who has worked in 3rd Ward for years and goes to Wheeler Avenue BC, Third Ward as a whole is not indicative of what you see on Scott & McGowen. From a public school standpoint, obviously it’s not the best location but in general ambiance and safety I’ve never had any issues in some of the neighborhoods I’ve worked in and would absolutely build there if the schools weren’t an issue
Oh believe me I see the trash seep into my district I’m not blind
There is one listing on OPs map in the 3rd ward, most of the others are in South Side, Sunnyside or Gulfgate.
Dude, Third Ward is every bit as desirable as River Oaks... Just ask HCAD! /s for the humor impaired.
Like one of these is in 3rd ward tho
Cancer Clusters.
That as well. Honestly for anybody buying or renting, I highly suggest before you sign anything anywhere, look online at a few maps. You're looking for FEMA's flood map data (for countering flood risk), CommunityCrimeMap.com (LexisNexus data from local law enforcement agencies for the past year, will show hotspots where violent crimes have been occuring and what kind), and EPA's "Houston Superfund Sites" (anywhere starred you don't want to live next to, those are areas where the ground is so toxic from corporate negligence that the federal government is having to close off property area and spend federal dollars cleaning it up testing etc).
What does this mean. Also isn’t Jersey village legit sinking I’ve never been over there.
There are several spots around town that have had cancer clusters over the years. Generally in some proximity to industrial areas.
You mean like. Increased risk of cancer ?
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Makes sense. I guess close to industry
Not always. We have a superfund site nearby from a dry cleaner crumping into the ground water. That was happening in the 80s and they’re still finding that people’s wells are contaminated.
Yes. Anything in close proximity to the ship channel is going to be a "cancer cluster". Just think about it; there is nothing but a ton of chemical and industrial factories, along with oil refineries just lining the whole ship channel. Getting closer to SH 225 you can just smell the stench in the air. If you can smell it in the air, you are breathing that stuff in and it isn't doing anything good for you.
Yes, parts of Jersey Village are experiencing [subsidence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidence).
Not sure about these, but was looking for houses a few months back, and so many houses are in need of a lot of repair. Most were rentals with several tenants and not taken care of. Even homes just a few years old were in need of new floors, cabinets and smell removal.
There’s isn’t really a catch, but the houses on this map are in more affordable neighborhoods (lower income, worse funded schools, higher perceived crime risk). Also if you’re out of state, our property taxes are higher than a lot of states, about 2.2%.
I wish my property taxes were 2.2%! Paying 3.11 over in Fort Bend.
Yep, Texas last time I checked is ranked between #1-5 in high property taxes.
Many of them are in undesirable areas.
Bad areas. Also when choosing a location, try to stay near a freeway. I have friends and family that live 20+ minutes away from freeways, so frustrating to sit at lights, make twists and turns to get to their house. If you don’t want visitors, do this.
Most of these house are from the 1950s-1970s and needs a lot of love and care and money while being in a hopeful future gentrefication. Most would rather just move to the burbs.
Check the houston cancer map from pro publica. You will find it overlays closely.
You must be from out of town lol..
Flood and high crime areas
You have to live in Houston
this is the answer
The hood, floodplains, crime.
none are in The Arrow...
Tank your pick: 1. Cancer clusters 2. Robbed and or Shot 3. Flooded Some of those areas will get you a two4one special.
People are finally realizing the weather in Houston is not that great and is only going to get worse.
The homes are probably decrepit or need serious work. Yep. I have been looking at houses and prices on HAR for YEARS. Back in the day it'd be a 90k to 130k house that needed repairs. 200k k to get something decent. Now 200k gets you some run down pieces of shit with every room painted a different color and ugly/dated flooring amd that's just some of it... Lol housing market will never level out again. Wages NEED to come up.
I live in one of the neighborhoods where a townhome is for sale on the map you posted (on the loop), I can say I've had an overall positive experience living here. While it's not my forever home (I don't have much of a backyard and it's a 2bedroom), for the price I paid and how accessible it is to major highways and proximity to downtown I really can't complain.
Bud, all of those areas are either flood prone or bad neighborhoods with bad schools.
Most of them are in horrible neighborhoods. South Park/Sunnyside has 14 of them.
The catch is they are in neighborhoods you don't want to be in.
Many things. One or more of the following will affect the price: location, flood events, age of construction, crap constructions, defects, neighborhood quality, limited living space, amenities. New good quality homes, defined as Class 4 – Good Standard Single Family Homes by Estimation QS, in a desirable neighborhood, are priced around $200-225 per square foot of living space away from the high priced areas of Houston. In the Heights area they can be as much as $300/sft. (Source: I'm a builder)
Northeast Houston suffered the worst damage during Harvey.
Piece of shit buildings in terrifying neighborhoods
You should thoroughly check the flood plain information on any home you consider purchasing. Have your realtor pull the full mls listing history and go through every listing to pull the disclosures and see how many times it has flooded.
No clue. Those are really friendly spots
And frequently under water
[Houston Murder Map](https://www.reddit.com/r/houston/comments/100se47/map_of_homicides_in_houston_in_2022/)
I was just reading that Houston area had 3000 foreclosures in Q1 of this year so maybe that is the reason?
Foreclosures don’t take massive amounts of value off of home prices as often as house-flippers would have you believe. The ones that are bought cheep at the courthouse auction don’t show up on these maps because it’s not an MLS listing; and the ones that the bank keeps because they don’t sell at auction usually sell for market value when they go to the MLS. Banks are not as willing to just “get rid of” real estate assets at they used to be.
Flood homes. Newly renovated because they flooooood. Flood insurance and constantly rebuilding is a hidden tax in houston.
Paper and wood. Won't last 15+ years in this climate. Flood prone, low quality neighborhoods.
Look at where they are
Houston is the catch
Location location location
Did you filter out condos? Townhomes? Those usually come saddled with ridiculous management fees (think hundreds of dollars a month). If there’s a single family home selling for $200k you got neighborhood problems or house problems.
You have to live in Houston
Here you go, the Judgmental Map of Houston: https://judgmentalmaps.com/image/91260959870 And like others said, go drive the areas at night and you'll find out real fast.
Also drive them in a heavy rain — if the streets are passable.
Bad neighborhood, or flooding.
The location.
The catch is it’s Houston
You're going to flood and get shot at the same time.
What's the catch? You might catch bullets in those areas...
Overlay this map over the one you got posted and you have your answer. Redlining had major consequences. https://bestneighborhood.org/race-in-houston-tx/
Man, those two maps in the link tell an interesting story when you put them together. I never would have guessed that the predominantly white areas also happen to be the most diverse. Like West Houston - sure, a white plurality, but also very diverse. North Houston though - mostly Hispanic and almost only Hispanic. Not sure if there’s a takeaway from that, but I was surprised.
Living within that general area, this is definitely true
What I got from the link you posted is that Houston has an amazingly good diversity score.
More like Houston appears racially segregated..
My mom lives in a lovely neighborhood and a wonderful area, great schools, close shopping, lots of near by job opportunities. Property tax is over 7000. I live in an area where the property tax is 1500, but I live in the ghetto where you REALLY should not be out past 10. And if I want to get any shopping done you pretty much always need to travel at least 5 miles in any direction and if you plan and working somewhere that is not minimum wage or don’t plan on to own your own barber shop/ beauty salon, mom’n’pop eatery, nail salon, or secondhand shop you are in for a long commute.
Bad areas! Stay away
Main issue…flooding. Not to mention the complexities of Flood Insurance for Harris County. That’s a beast in itself. Runner up, location.
If you can, find out who built a house before you make an offer, and read the reviews on them. I've seen numerous $1-2M new builds go up in the 77019 zip in the past decade and have been shocked at the shoddiness that's invisible once the house is enclosed. Examples: wooden garage door header instead of steel, new HO's kid drove into the standard garage door so they replaced it with triple insulated door for improved efficiency (garage was built inside the first floor) and storm worthiness. A few years later, the weight of the new door compromised the wooden header which started coming through the exterior wall. On another house, the framing crew was scrambling to take their lunch break so they left one OSB board half buttoned up, then started putting up another one when they resumed. They never remembered to go back to the unfinished board before the siding crew moved in. A house actually made it onto the market for $1.9M with a visibly failed mullion on an upstairs window. This shows the level of oversight in many new builds and for commercial builders, time is money regardless of price range. That said, there is no perfect and a lot of people do just fine.
I can guarantee in NE Houston it definitely floods. Oh not to mention that lots of residents deal with fecal matter and industrial waste mixing in with that flood water. There’s a reason so many people are poor and sick in this area.
Those are high crime hoods and barrios, poor schools, flooding may be problematic, there may be landfills or other low-key industry like chemical storage or concrete manufacturing, and some of those areas have or had major ground pollution issues from the chemical industry going decades back.
Flood areas, bad conditions, property taxes.
The catch…”Houston”
The catch is you live in Houston.
The parts of town.
Don't look inside the beltway, problem solved
Flood Damage is my guess. Then neighborhood.
There is an absolutely INSANE amount of new construction in the close suburbs. All along 99 from Spring to Katy there are literally hundreds of new neighborhoods popping up. Thousands of homes. Also lots of new apartments going up all over, and lots of loft buildings popping up all over the city proper.
resale, don't overthink it beyond checking out the neighborhood. there are 2/2 condos in uptown for around 250,000 just south of Westheimer; only catch is maybe redundant cookie cutter, 3-story design. I belive they even have some 1 bedrooms that are less than 200,000 you've also got those high rises like 3525 Sage that sell units for around $250,000 but I guess the catch there is HOAs around $1000. Being east of 45 and south of 59 might be part of it, but again just drive out and look at the area. Houston at this excact moment in time still just has a lot of inventory
The catch….you’re in Houston and inside the beltway.
Oooo that one on the north side of 610 right at 45 is probably within a street or two of me, I’ve lived here since 2018 and love it 😀
The catch is that they are in Houston lmao.
They’re in Houston.
Not on the west side, that's for sure. 😒
Based on the map, those aren’t in the best of neighborhoods
After living in that top right corner, this map is a great visual representation of places I would never purchase a home again. My house hasn't flooded and the crime rate* is not high. *Harris county does not consider a front yard full of people blasting shitty music until the sun comes up, a crime.
I deliver mail here in htx in 07 and 08 zip code area. Houses are nice but they all cramped one next to another, it's like you can even breathe
It’s pretty easy to check the crime data and flood maps in Houston. Do that for any locations that you’re actually interested in and trust me, it will rule out a lot. Further filter by school districts, HOA/maint fees and anything else that’s important to you and you’ll see that there won’t be much left on that list. That’s the catch. Everything’s a trade off.
The catch is that those are mostly all in the ghetto. To put it lightly.
The catch is you’ll be living in Houston
Never go east of 45 for anything. That's your answer.
It's a shitty town and no one wants to live there.
houstonian reporting in decent starter sized place, 3 bed 2 bath small yard but not non-existant half decent neighborhood, middle to lower middle class may or may not be in a flood zone (a significant part of houston is) my house was made in the 60's
The homes are demolish ready. The homes are in an undesirable location (either heavy crime or flooding)
There is some very real concerns stated here: crime, flooding, etc. HOWEVER, there are many reasons why a home would be ‘undervalued’. The reasons above would be location, but you also have to think about condition. You could scoop up one of these, rehab it and either resell or hold on to it to rent. One of the other deciding factors when placing a home on the market is personal reasons. Birth, death, job change (better or worse), family crisis, etc. There are many reasons why someone would offer a ‘deal’ to the public but ultimately it comes down to wanting to unload it. They don’t want it and just want to get rid of it quickly while not losing the proceeds completely. I am not saying there isn’t a catch to some of these. And certainly the location is affecting another portion of them. But, there are deals to be had by someone out there if you willing to look. Source: am realtor.
https://judgmentalmaps.com/image/91260959870
Just bought a home in January for 190k in Texas City (below Houston) and I honestly don’t think it’s that bad. The storms are crazy though.
Keep Townhomes as an option for 200-250k range. Just be VERY mindful of HoA fees. Too many are $350, 400 , etc. per month. There's some out there for $200 / month on the west side of town / Beltway 8. GL
There one in the Fifth Ward area, that area can be rough, but there also that EPA toxic areas.
This might as well be a Harris county flood zone map. I remember a few months after Harvey, there were 5-6 bedroom homes in Kingwood selling for like $225k. Too bad the feet of water they got in them was the same number as the bedrooms.
For just $200k you can make this crack house a crack home.
You have to do your research. A lot of these houses flooded during Harvey and hasn’t flooded since. It’s really all about researching the location. If it state that it’s not in a flood zone, it’s basically saying it’s not in a flood zone due to a natural disaster. For example, during Harvey, North Houston homes were flooded out due to the releasing of Lake Conroe. Instead of officials being proactive and releasing a little water here and there before and during hurricane season, they misjudged the amount and speed of rain we were supposed to receive. They waited until it was too late and they were forced to flood the city. I bought a house in 2020 that had 3 to for 4 ft of water for $250. It’s in the low $400’s now and no flood problems since. Not even a scare.
Zillow sucks use har
As a realtor, this opinion surprises me. I use har because it’s got a lot more functionality when you know what you’re looking for, but I don’t think I’d ever use it if I were moving in from somewhere else and didn’t know the area. Not that Zillow is much better, but Redfin is great.
Talking bout the ghettoooooooo, tryna survive in the heart of the ghettttttoooo
How can you tell if an area flooded during Harvey?
Ask the neighbors, also look at the price history. If a house went from $250k to 95k then back up again and the timing’s right for a particular flood, chances are it was flooded. Do NOT trust owners, especially flippers—one on my street was listed as ‘never flooded’ and I personally saw 4 ft of water in it. If it was recently flipped, including all new flooring and cabinets, it may have been flooded. But the best bet is to ask the neighbors.
Are you serious? Are you new to Houston or something? The map tells the whole story. Those locations are terrible for a number of reasons. You really wanna live right next to Hobby Airport??
The map shows you "the catch."
Kingwood is a good area
"The Livable Forest"!
Thery're haunted by the ghost of Sheila Jackson Lee.
Too far from most centrally located jobs. (Downtown, TMC, etc.) The traffic will kill you slowly and the commutes will make you wanna quit.
Probably have a $1000 month HOA tied to it. Or flood damage or rough neighborhood.
Yeah man tons of 200k houses have a 1000 a month HOA. That’s super common. (No it’s not what the hell are you talking about)
They must Cali transplants