Selling Your Home in Montrose?

Market data

Montrose home values and market activity

HAR 2025 neighborhood facts

Source: HAR.com · HAR.com · HAR.com · HAR.com (HAR 2025 Facts, based on appraisal district records). Market and appraised values are not sale prices. HAR’s neighborhood boundary may not match the subdivision exactly.

Seller preparation

What Montrose buyers will ask, and what to have ready

1. Historic districts, lot-size rules and deed restrictions

   Montrose has six city historic districts: Courtlandt Place (1996, the city's first), Westmoreland (1997), Avondale East (1999) and West (2007), First Montrose Commons (2010) and Audubon Place (2011). Inside them, building on a vacant lot, additions and exterior alterations need a Certificate of Appropriateness. Houston has no zoning, but some blocks have adopted a Special Minimum Lot Size or Building Line, and some sections, such as Audubon Place, reinstated deed restrictions that the City Legal Department can help enforce.

   • COA applications are due 22 days before the monthly HAHC meeting; free pre-application review (832-393-6556).
   • An approved COA brings a 50% discount on building permit fees.
   • Livable Places rules do not override active deed restrictions.

   What buyers will do: Before you offer on a house or lot you plan to change, check the historic district and contributing status, the minimum lot size map and the recorded restrictions in the title commitment.

   What to have ready: The recorded deed restrictions for your section and the permits or approvals for past additions, pools, fences and remodels.

   Sources: City of Houston Certificate of Appropriateness · Special Minimum Lot Size / Building Line · City of Houston deed restriction enforcement

2. Old houses, small lots and later rebuilds

   Houses in the historic sections date from about 1900 to the 1930s, while HAR's 2025 Facts put the Montrose (77006) median year built at 1972, which reflects later rebuilding. Median lots range from 1,375 sq ft in Avondale to 6,000 sq ft in Westmoreland, so the same budget can buy a 1910s house on a large lot or a newer home on a narrow one.

   • Inspect older houses for foundation movement, wood rot, plumbing and electrical updates.
   • Ask for permits on additions and garage apartments.
   • On newer narrow-lot homes, ask about shared walls, drainage between buildings and any shared driveway agreements.

   What buyers will do: Pull the permit history and get an inspection that fits the house's age before your option period ends.

   What to have ready: Dates and receipts for the roof, HVAC, water heater, plumbing, foundation and other major work, plus any inspection reports you already have.

   Sources: HAR.com Montrose 2025 Facts · Houston Permitting Center

3. Montrose Blvd and West Alabama rebuilds

   The Montrose TIRZ's $17.9 million first phase is rebuilding Montrose Blvd from Allen Parkway to West Clay Street, including an underground drainage system; Community Impact listed a March 2025 to mid-2026 timeline. The TIRZ also plans to rebuild 1.6 miles of West Alabama between Spur 527 and Shepherd with new signals, sidewalks and turn lanes, with construction reported to start in late 2026.

   • Later Montrose Blvd phases south of West Clay were not confirmed.
   • Westheimer and Montrose Blvd cross the area; US 59 and Allen Parkway frame it.

   What buyers will do: If the home is on or near Montrose Blvd or West Alabama, check the current construction schedule and access during work before you commit.

   What to have ready: Nothing to fix here, but know the current road projects and routes so you can answer questions accurately.

   Sources: City of Houston TIRZ 27 (Montrose) · Community Impact road project update (Oct. 2025)

Insurance and disclosures: buyers will price homeowners and flood insurance before they commit. Have your current declarations pages, any elevation certificate and any flood-claim history ready; Texas sellers also answer flooding questions on the seller’s disclosure notice (Texas Property Code §5.008). See our Houston flood map guide.