Typical Memorial Forest Home

The Memorial Forest subdivision is the third most researched neighborhood online in the Houston metro area. The Memorial Forest community was developed by a mid century developer named Frost and most of the homes were built between 1959 and 1965. The neighborhood can be found just West of the Memorial Villages. Homes in the subdivision tend to sit on lots a bit smaller than those seen in the much more affluent villages. The Memorial Forest real estate landscape includes homes that still fit the original decor as well as properties that have been renovated to a modern taste and even a handful of rebuilds.

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1. $949,000 : 12115 Beauregard, Houston
   
   6 beds, 4 full baths

   Size: 3,816 sq ft

   Lot size: 11,900 sq ft
2. $410,000 : 12102 Pinerock Ln, Houston
   
   4 beds, 2 full baths

   Size: 2,056 sq ft

   Lot size: 12,660 sq ft
3. $579,000 : 12131 Overcup Dr, Houston
   
   4 beds, 2 full baths

   Size: 2,644 sq ft

   Lot size: 10,039 sq ft

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1. $2,595 : 12215 Mossycup Dr, Houston
   
   4 beds, 2 full baths

   Size: 2,501 sq ft

   Lot size: 9,040 sq ft

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3/3/2010 – Industrial Real Estate Market News: A fourth innerloop industrial distribution center to be put up at 531 Portwall St. The 149,793 square foot structure will join the Carson Cos. Portwall Distribution center I, II, and III.

According to Daniel Zoch, the Texas managing director for Carson Cos., Carson Cos. acquired Portwall 1 back in October of 2006 and broke ground on Portwall II and III in 2008. Construction on Portwall II and III was finished in 2009 and they are now 100% leased. The developer’s speculative move is fueled by the 3-3.4% vacancy rate for modern distribution space within the Houston 610 loop.

2/28/2010 – Houston Commercial Real Estate: Candlewood Suites started their Texas hotel expansion with three new Houston extended stay hotels. They have plans to open two more by the end of July. The current expansion plan calls for a total of 13 new extended stay hotels state wide by mid to late summer. These new additions will bring the Candlewood Suites brand’s holdings in Texas to a total of 50 hotels.

The first three hotels were opened in February and are located at 291 Kingwood Medical Dr. Kingwood, TX, 1300 East Blvd. Deer Park, TX and 2350 Gulf Freeway S. League City, TX. The other two Houston area hotels under development to be opened in late July are located at 9015 Broadway Pearland, Texas and 1020 Maxy Rd. Houston, Texas.

2/28/2010 – Houston Housing Market News: The Lakeland Heights, a neighborhood meant to emulate some of Houston’s most popular, long standing neighborhoods like the Houston Heights, West University Place, and Southside Place, has been restarted. Peter Houghton said home sales in the community were up 30 percent for the first seven weeks of the year, in comparison to numbers posted for 2009.

The popular national builder David Weekley has plans to start construction on seven new homes in the Lakeland Heights community. When the neighborhood is built out the plan calls for a total of 600 homes that will be priced between $160,000 to the upper $300,000s

The planned development makes for a more walkable neighborhood with its design encouraging walking as the plan calls for homes to be built around outdoor amenities and shops. Such as the retail cente,r to be known as the Lakeland Heights’ shopping district, and the medical office building currently expected to have ground broken on early next year.

2/28/2010 – Houston Housing Market News: Community Development Block Grants for the city’s Hurricane Dolly-Ike Disaster Relief Down Payment Assistance program has been put on what city officials hope is temporary hold. This hiccup comes about because of slow reimbursement from the state, leading to a 9.2 million dollar deficit. The city has decided to place the grant program on hold until the state catches up on reimbursements leaving many people in need of grant money to make a home purchase out in the rain.

The state had authorized 11 million dollars to the program that makes available between $19,500 to $45,000 for down payments to those who make no more than 120% of the areas median household income and are willing to purchase a home in economically disadvantaged areas.

Up until this point the city had approved approx. 180 payments, but has not yet received any reimbursements from the state, who is administering the federal funds given for use in the program. Both city and state officials said that the slow pace of reimbursements is because the Hurricane Dolly-Ike Disaster Relief Down Payment Assistance program is a new program where Houston is the first city to be allocated funding. Which is a bit hard for me to swallow because in my eyes there is no difference from the Hurricane Rita program.

I would like to know what you think about the “temporary halt” of the program and why you feel that way.

West University Place Boundaries

West U is know as the city within a city as during the turn of the 19th century it was originally started as bedroom community of Houston. Since at that time Houston chose not to run power lines to the neighborhood, West University chose to incorporate on their own. In 1939 Houston attempted to annex West University Place, but the community refused, Leaving it a separate city in a governmental capacity. So, today the West University subdivision is surrounded by the city of Houston and this is how it got its name as a “city within a city.”

Below you will find all the West University Place real estate listings listed in the Houston MLS by all Houston real estate companies. The listings will be classified by property type. You will find a heading disclaiming what type of West University property type is listed below. Links to the listings that you will find below are from our basic West U home search. Just below the heading for each of the different sets of West University Place real estate listings will be a link that will take you to the results page of our advanced Houston home search technology.

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1. $649,000 : 2719 Arbuckle, West University
   
   4 beds, 2 full baths

   Size: 2,276 sq ft

   Lot size: 6,000 sq ft
2. $749,000 : 4207 Emory, West University
   
   5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

   Size: 3,510 sq ft

   Lot size: 5,000 sq ft
3. $1,799,000 : 3707 Albans, West University
   
   5 beds, 6 full, 1 part baths

   Size: 5,393 sq ft

   Lot size: 7,200 sq ft
4. $849,000 : 3815 Riley, West University
   
   4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

   Size: 3,941 sq ft

   Lot size: 5,720 sq ft
5. $909,000 : 4133 Rice Bl, West University
   
   5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

   Size: 4,040 sq ft

   Lot size: 5,865 sq ft

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1. $299,900 : 6731 Sewanee St, West University
   
   2 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

   Size: 2,146 sq ft

   Lot size: 4,500 sq ft

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1. $619,000 : 3320 University Bl, West University
   
   0 beds, 0 baths

   Size: n/a

   Lot size: 7,501 sq ft
2. $600,000 : 3027 Carnegie St, West University
   
   0 beds, 0 baths

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3. $627,000 : 2716 Sunset Bl, West University
   
   0 beds, 0 baths

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   Lot size: 6,599 sq ft
4. $425,000 : 3936 Marlowe St, West University
   
   0 beds, 0 baths

   Size: n/a

   Lot size: 6,002 sq ft
5. $446,700 : 6131 Lake St, West University
   
   0 beds, 0 baths

   Size: n/a

   Lot size: 5,000 sq ft

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1. $3,100 : 6020 Kirby Dr, West University
   
   3 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

   Size: 2,262 sq ft

   Lot size: 2,850 sq ft
2. $2,900 : 2828 Holcombe Blvd, Unit H, West University
   
   3 beds, 2 full, 2 part baths

   Size: 2,772 sq ft

   Lot size: 2,281 sq ft
3. $1,200 : 6412 Community, West University
   
   2 beds, 1 full bath

   Size: n/a

   Lot size: n/a
4. $1,950 : 3929 University Blvd, West University
   
   3 beds, 2 full baths

   Size: 1,352 sq ft

   Lot size: 5,700 sq ft
5. $2,500 : 2629 Wroxton Rd, Unit 2629A, West University
   
   2 beds, 2 full baths

   Size: 1,596 sq ft

   Lot size: n/a

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2/25/2010-Houston Real Estate News: Finger Furniture, the 80 year old Houston furniture business, is reopening its 600,000 square foot store located at 4001 Gulf Fwy. The facility was shut down four months ago to go through renovations.

According to Rodney Finger, president of Finger Furniture, the facility is the largest furniture store in all of Texas. The newly renovated building includes 250,000 square feet of warehouse space, 50,000 square feet attributed to its Clearance Center, dubbed the “Bargain Basement,” and the remaining 300,000 square feet making up its office facilities and showroom floor.

When the store initially opens in March it will employ 30 full time workers, and plans call for increase the number to 50 by the end of June.

2/25/2010 – Sugar Land Commercial Real Estate Market News: Healthcare Trust of America Inc. recently entered into contract to purchase a 60,000 square foot Sugar Land Medical office building located at 15400 Southwest Fwy. S. The medical building was known as Sugar Land Medical Building II and was owned by Mission Cos. The contract had a purchase price of 12.4 million.

Healthcare Trust of America Inc. is buying the building because of the quality of the main tenant, Texas Children’s Health Center who has a lease on 83% of the building until 2019, and the facility’s proximity to three hospitals in Sugar Land.

The closing of this transaction will bring the REIT’s Texas portfolio to 965,000 square feet of medical related facilities. Adding a second building to its Houston portfolio that includes a 52,000 square foot Cypress Station Medical Office Building

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1. $265,000 : 2299 Lone Star Dr, Unit 446, Sugar Land
   
   2 beds, 2 full baths

   Size: 1,109 sq ft

   Lot size: n/a
2. $245,000 : 2299 Lone Star Dr, Unit 137, Sugar Land
   
   2 beds, 2 full baths

   Size: 1,068 sq ft

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3. $185,000 : 2299 Lone Star Dr, Unit 510, Sugar Land
   
   1 beds, 1 full bath

   Size: 743 sq ft

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4. $245,000 : 2299 Lone Star Dr, Unit 233, Sugar Land
   
   2 beds, 2 full baths

   Size: 1,150 sq ft

   Lot size: n/a
5. $250,000 : 2299 Lone Star Dr, Unit 247, Sugar Land
   
   2 beds, 2 full baths

   Size: 1,178 sq ft

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6. $220,000 : 2299 Lone Star Dr, Unit 237, Sugar Land
   
   2 beds, 2 full baths

   Size: 1,068 sq ft

   Lot size: n/a
7. $240,000 : 2299 Lone Star Dr, Unit 414, Sugar Land
   
   2 beds, 2 full baths

   Size: 1,109 sq ft

   Lot size: n/a
8. $199,000 : 2299 Lone Star Dr, Unit 304, Sugar Land
   
   1 beds, 1 full bath

   Size: 852 sq ft

   Lot size: n/a
9. $232,000 : 2299 Lone Star Dr, Unit 320, Sugar Land
   
   3 beds, 2 full baths

   Size: 1,350 sq ft

   Lot size: n/a
10. $205,000 : 2611 Woodwick, Sugar Land
    
    4 beds, 2 full baths

    Size: 2,148 sq ft

    Lot size: 7,725 sq ft

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River Oaks Subdivision

River Oaks, Houston is one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in all of Houston, Texas. Where the median price of a home for 2009 came in at just over 1.5 million and sold in just 83 days on the market. Of the River Oaks homes for sale in 2009 that closed sales prices ranged between $280,000 and $6.325 million. The median year built for the River Oaks community was 1940, with a median square footage of just shy of 4,200 square feet.

Those who own and live in River Oaks homes can brag excellent commute times to Downtown, Uptown/Galleria, and the Houston Medical Center. According to Google maps you can get from the River Oaks Houston subdivision to Downtown in 12 minutes, with a 13 minute commute to the medical center, and just 11 minutes to the Galleria. The River Oaks central location allows residents both a suburban feel with the availability of urban amenities. To read more about the history, amenities, and geography of the River Oaks subdivision click here.

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1. $1,095,000 : 3629 Wickersham, Houston
   
   4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

   Size: 3,459 sq ft

   Lot size: 7,875 sq ft
2. $1,190,000 : 2016 Chilton Rd, Houston
   
   4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

   Size: 3,411 sq ft

   Lot size: 11,439 sq ft
3. $1,195,000 : 2107 Looscan Lane, Houston
   
   3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

   Size: 2,320 sq ft

   Lot size: 9,312 sq ft
4. $1,749,000 : 2116 Chilton Rd, Houston
   
   4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

   Size: 5,093 sq ft

   Lot size: 12,000 sq ft
5. $2,445,000 : 3460 Wickersham Ln, Houston
   
   5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

   Size: 4,565 sq ft

   Lot size: 8,243 sq ft
6. $1,350,000 : 3666 Ella Lee Ln, Houston
   
   5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

   Size: 3,821 sq ft

   Lot size: 9,525 sq ft
7. $3,750,000 : 13 Tiel Way, Houston
   
   3 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

   Size: 5,099 sq ft

   Lot size: 16,906 sq ft
8. $242,000 : 401 Hill Creek Drive, Coldspring
   
   3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

   Size: 3,204 sq ft

   Lot size: 1.77 ac
9. $995,000 : 2153 Looscan, Houston
   
   3 beds, 3 full baths

   Size: 3,026 sq ft

   Lot size: 8,750 sq ft
10. $1,499,999 : 940 Kirby Drive, Houston
    
    3 beds, 4 full baths

    Size: n/a

    Lot size: 22,980 sq ft

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1. $2,250,000 : 2148 Troon, Houston
   
   0 beds, 0 baths

   Size: n/a

   Lot size: 22,472 sq ft
2. $1,075,000 : 2433 Pelham, Houston
   
   0 beds, 0 baths

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   Lot size: 7,936 sq ft
3. $1,100,000 : 2124 Inwood, Houston
   
   0 beds, 0 baths

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4. $5,999,000 : 3988 Inverness, Houston
   
   0 beds, 0 baths

   Size: n/a

   Lot size: 4.20 ac

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River Oaks Houston Home Sales

This section covers River Oaks in greater detail providing information about the history, amenities, demographics, geography and clubs of the subdivision in case you were looking for more general information rather than homes for sale in River Oaks.

William and Michael Hogg, the sons of former Texas Governor Jim Hogg, and attorney Hugh Potter established River Oaks in the 1920s. Potter obtained an option to purchase 200 acres (81 ha) around the River Oaks Country Club in 1923, and in the following year William Hogg established the Country Club Estates in order to support the development of the community. The two brothers promoted the sale of lots in the subdivision for $2,200 apiece in 1928. The brothers, along with sister Ima Hogg, oversaw the construction of Bayou Bend stately southern-style home on the banks of Buffalo Bayou.

The development plans ensured that River Oaks’s parks and esplanades were planted with oaks, shrubs, azaleas and other flowers. Every detail of the development was planned to establish a well-integrated community. Advertised as a “distinguished experiment in fine living,” River Oaks became a national model for community planning. River Oaks was published in national newspapers, real estate media and design journals featuring the development’s planning standards, residential architecture, and landscape design during the 1920s and 1930s. Deed restrictions at the time restricted home prices to over $7,000 and specified architectural styles, with a gentlemen’s agreement excluding blacks, Jews, and other minorities. Homes along Kirby Drive were restricted to American Colonial or English Tudor style architecture.

During the 1920s, River Oaks was so effectively organized, planned and restricted that it became the most expensive neighborhood in Houston. Bus service to Downtown Houston opened in 1927. After the start of the Great Depression, 300 families lived in River Oaks. After World War II, River Oaks became predominately of upper class residents. After World War II as Houston experienced its greatest growth, River Oaks would become a haven for the wealthy of the city, and the middle classes and below had to look elsewhere for affordable housing

River Oaks has been the subject matter of scholarly studies, primarily because its significant contributions to Houston’s history and development as an elite suburban community. The community was the site of the 1972 murder of Dr. John Hill (later described in Thomas Thompson’s novel, Blood and Money) and the 1997 murder of Doris Angleton. River Oaks was the home of Jeff Skilling before he began serving his 25 year sentence in a prison in Minnesota for his involvement in the Enron scandal.

Adjacent to the community is the River Oaks Shopping Center, Houston’s first shopping center, located in the Neartown community. Constructed in 1927 and designed by architect Hugh Prather, the center, originally known as River Oaks Community Center, was one of the first automobile-oriented retail centers, which is ever so fitting for the dynamics of Houston, TX today, in the United States. Its design, with arcs of retail space on either side of West Gray Avenue, was considered a model for future development. Portions of the historic shopping center were demolished in September 2007 to redevelop the site for a bookstore and parking garage. As of 2008, Landmark Theatres operates the River Oaks Theatre, an “arthouse” theater, located in the center. The theater is the last historic movie theater in Houston that is still being according to designed.

River Oaks is home to the forty-member River Oaks Chamber Orchestra. The orchestra is composed of musicians from around the United States and guest conductors from around the world. The training facilities for the Houston Ballet and its pre-professional school, the Ben Stevenson Academy, are located on West Gray, east of the River Oaks Shopping Center. River Oaks Park and the River Oaks Community Center, operated by the City of Houston, is located at 3600 Locke Lane. River Oaks Park includes a quarter mile off-road trail located within the park’s boundaries, tennis courts, a playground, and a lighted sports ground. Memorial Park, a large urban park complex with many athletic facilities, is just North of River Oaks and Buffalo Bayou.

River Oaks Country Club, located within the community on the northern end of River Oaks Boulevard, is a country club that includes a golf facility that was designed by architect Donald Ross. Ross is considered to be one of the most significant golf course designers in the history of golf. Opening in 1923, the country club has hosted the River Oaks International Tennis Tournament since 1931.

The Houston Independent School District (HISD) operates the public schools serving River Oaks. The community is within Trustee District VII, represented by Harvin C. Moore as of 2009.

The public schools River Oaks Elementary, Lanier Middle School, and Lamar High School serve the River Oaks community. Lanier opened in 1926, River Oaks Elementary opened in 1929, and Lamar opened in 1937. Between 1986 and 1996, River Oaks Elementary School only admitted magnet school students from other areas of the city. The community was divided between the attendance zones of Wilson Elementary School (opened in 1925) and the now closed Will Rogers Elementary School (opened in 1950, closed in the summer of 2006). In 1995, several River Oaks parents petitioned HISD to re-establish the neighborhood program at River Oaks Elementary School which allows non-magnet students residing in the school’s boundaries to attend. Some magnet parents opposed, believing that the River Oaks program would reduce racial diversity at the school. In the fall 1996, HISD added a neighborhood program to the school for grades Kindergarten through 2nd grade, with grades 3 through 5 phased in over a subsequent three-year period.

Crockett Early Childhood Center is the closest public early childhood center to River Oaks, while Wilson Elementary School’s preschool program is the closest tuition-based program. Only economically-disadvantaged students, homeless students, students who are not proficient in English, or children of active-duty members of the U.S. military or whose parent has been killed, injured, or missing in action while on active duty may be enrolled in tuition-free HISD preschools. Students who are eligible for HISD’s preschools may attend any Early Childhood Center in Houston ISD for free. Students not eligible may enroll in tuition-based HISD preschool programs.

Several independent private schools serve the community. Since the 1970s and by 1995, most of the children in River Oaks were sent to private schools. Catholic schools, operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of the Houston MSA, include St. Thomas High School 9-12, males only, north of River Oaks along the north edge of the Buffalo Bayou and St. Anne Catholic School K-8, between River Oaks and Neartown. Other private schools in the area and private schools marketed to River Oaks families include St. John’s School K–12, in Upper Kirby, Annunciation Orthodox School (K-8, in the Neartown area, River Oaks Baptist School K-8, in River Oaks, Episcopal High School 9-12, Bellaire and The Kinkaid School, In 2006 St. Anne Catholic School received the Blue Ribbon Award.

River Oaks is within the Houston Community College System boundaries. The closest campuses are the Central Campus in Midtown and the West Loop Center. Four-year universities and colleges in close proximity to River Oaks include the University of St. Thomas and Rice University in the Houston Museum District.

The community is served by the Adele B. Looscan Branch of the Houston Public Library. The current Looscan Branch building opened in September 2007. The former Americans with Disabilities Act non-compliant library, which was established in 1956, closed on August 27, 2005 and was demolished in February 2006.

The previous Looscan branch had around 61,000 visitors in the fiscal year 2005. The original plans for Looscan called for the library to get a 5.37 million renovation. An Upper Kirby group proposed a new site near the Upper Kirby YMCA. Around that period the group Friends for Neighborhood Libraries began raising funds. The replacement library, with a cost of $6.2 million, had twice the staff and two and one half times the size of the previous facility. Friends of Neighborhood Libraries had raised one million dollars in four months, and around 2.5 million in total to help fund the new library; the group spent about 30,000 dollars for the expenses.

River Oaks is within the Houston Super Neighborhood #23 Afton Oaks/River Oaks, a division of the City of Houston that includes River Oaks and some surrounding subdivisions. In 2000 the Super Neighborhood had 14,313 residents; 12,273 of them (85.74%) were non-Hispanic Caucasions. 1,160 (8.1%) were Hispanic,, 390 (2.72%) were Asian, 247 (1.72%) were Black, 18 were Native American, 13 were Native Hawaiian, and 23 were non-Hispanic others. 189 people were of two or more races.

According to the United States census in 2000, of the 12,088 residents over 18 years of age, 10,390 (85.95%) were non-Hispanic White. 945 (7.81%) were Hispanic, 353 (2.92%) were Asian, 205 (1.7%) were Black, 17 were Native American, 8 were Native Hawaiian, and 22 were non-Hispanic other. 148 were of two or more races.

The super neighborhood had 8,169 housing units. Of the 7,401 occupied units, 3,573 were rental units and 3,828 were owner units. The Super Neighborhood had 3,518 families with a total of 9,521 individuals. Afton Oaks/River Oaks Super Neighborhood had a lower average family size than the average City of Houston family size. The Afton Oaks/River Oaks average was 2.71, while the city average was 3.39.

River Oaks is considered to be one of the wealthiest communities in Texas, and has one of the wealthiest zip codes in the United States. Residents are predominantly successful professionals, and real estate values range from $1 million to over $20 million.