Selling Your Home in Rice Military?

Market data

Rice Military home values and market activity

HAR 2025 neighborhood facts

Source: 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 Rice Military buyers will ask, and what to have ready

1. Townhomes, small lots and shared driveways

   Rice Military is mostly newer small-lot housing: HAR's 2025 Facts show a median year built of 2001, a 2,500 sq ft median lot and a median of 2,563 sq ft. Homes are often in small recorded subdivisions with their own plats, restrictions and, in some cases, an association. Under the city's Livable Places rules (effective November 2023), lots under 33 feet wide created by a new split that take street access must share a single driveway no more than 16 feet wide.

   • Single-family homes over 1,500 sq ft still need two parking spaces on the lot.
   • Houston has no zoning; recorded deed restrictions are what limit use and setbacks.
   • Check permits for roof decks, additions and remodels on resale homes.

   What buyers will do: Ask the title company for the plat, recorded restrictions and any shared-driveway or maintenance agreement, and get the association's resale certificate if there is one.

   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: City of Houston Livable Places FAQ · City of Houston Legal: deed restrictions · Houston Permitting Center

2. Between Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou

   Super Neighborhood 22 runs from Buffalo Bayou on the south to White Oak Bayou and I-10 on the north, so addresses here can fall in either HCFCD watershed. Upstream on Buffalo Bayou, the Army Corps stores storm runoff in the Addicks and Barker reservoirs and later releases it into the bayou, and in April 2026 a federal judge ruled that the Corps' releases after Hurricane Harvey (2017) added flooding to downstream homes. Mapped floodplain and street ponding vary by address.

   • HCFCD's mapping tool shows the watershed, floodplains and ponding for each address.
   • MAAPnext draft maps cannot be used for insurance decisions yet.
   • The city's Floodplain Management Office is at 1002 Washington Ave. (832-394-8854).

   What buyers will do: Check the address on FEMA and HCFCD maps, ask for the elevation certificate and flood claim history, and price flood insurance before the option period ends.

   What to have ready: Your seller’s disclosure flood answers, any elevation certificate, your flood insurance declarations page and records of any claim, repair or mitigation work.

   Sources: FEMA Flood Map Service Center · HCFCD Flood Education Mapping Tool · HCFCD Buffalo Bayou watershed · HCFCD White Oak Bayou watershed · Houston Public Media: Harvey release ruling (April 2026)

3. Washington Avenue: parking district and corridor plans

   The Washington Avenue Corridor Parking Benefit District (since May 1, 2013) returns part of its meter revenue to the district and sells one permit per address for permit areas enforced Thursday through Sunday, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. The H-GAC corridor study, begun in late 2023, ended with two options: a Community Preferred Vision with one lane each way east of the roundabout and center-running light rail or bus rapid transit (about $442 million in 2025 pricing) and a Baseline Constrained Alternative with two lanes each way (about $148 million). In 2025 METRO put about $6 million toward repaving a stretch of the avenue within its existing footprint.

   • Near-term ideas include a signal at Center Street and Durham Drive and mid-block crossings near bus stops.
   • METRO Route 85 has stops along Washington Avenue; the Silver Line starts at the Northwest Transit Center.

   What buyers will do: If the home is on or near Washington Avenue, check permit-parking rules with ParkHouston (832-393-8690) and read the corridor study's recommendations for that block.

   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: Washington Avenue Parking Benefit District · H-GAC Washington Avenue Corridor Study · H-GAC Washington Avenue Corridor Study summary (Nov. 2025) · ABC13: Washington Avenue repaving (March 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.