Selling Your Home in Southampton?

Market data

Southampton 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 Southampton buyers will ask, and what to have ready

1. Two subdivisions, two sets of deed restrictions

   Southampton Place (1923) and Southampton Place Extension (1925) have separate restrictions and separate reviewers. Southampton's original rules barred apartments and multi-family housing and have been extended in 1973 and 2011 and amended in 2025; the Southampton Civic Club reviews plans free. The Extension's restrictions allow two families per structure, and a 2019 amendment reduced some setbacks, lifted the two-story limit on Sunset Boulevard and set a height limit allowing three full stories; its POA charges $100 to review new construction or major remodels.

   • Review is needed for footprint changes, new stories, roofline changes, porch or garage enclosures and cantilevers over a setback.
   • The Extension runs between Greenbriar and Morningside, but not every 2300-block address on Tangley, Dunstan or Bolsover is in it.
   • The City Legal Department can also enforce deed restrictions (832-393-6333).

   What buyers will do: Confirm from the title commitment which subdivision the lot is in, then read that subdivision's current restrictions before you write an offer that depends on adding on or rebuilding.

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

   Sources: Southampton Civic Club: deed restrictions · Southampton Extension POA: deed restrictions and plan review · City of Houston deed restriction enforcement

2. 1920s and 1930s houses, landmarks and live oaks

   HAR's median year built is 1940 in Southampton Place and 1946 in the Extension, and city reports describe Georgian and Tudor Revival homes, brick cottages and bungalows. Several houses are City of Houston landmarks, and in June and July 2026 the city's historical commission took up four more Protected Landmark applications (2107 and 2232 Tangley, 1914 and 2322 Dunstan). Street and setback trees on city property need a permit to remove.

   • Ask whether the house is designated or under review before planning changes.
   • Plan for the age of systems, foundations and alleys in an older house and order a full inspection.
   • Fleming Park and the Sunset Boulevard esplanades are cared for with Friends groups.

   What buyers will do: Get a full inspection with a foundation and sewer-line check, ask about landmark status, and map protected trees before budgeting a renovation or rebuild.

   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: Southampton Civic Club: landmarks · City of Houston HAHC report, 2107 Tangley (June 2026) · Houston Permitting Center: tree removal permit · City of Houston HAHC draft minutes (July 16, 2026)

3. City of Houston taxes plus neighborhood services

   Southampton is taxed by the City of Houston ($0.519190 per $100, 2025), Houston ISD ($0.8421, adopted 2026), Harris County ($0.41750, 2026), Flood Control ($0.05266, 2026), the Hospital District ($0.19528, 2026) and the Port ($0.00603, 2026); confirm on the HCAD account whether Houston Community College ($0.098802, 2026) applies. HISD's homestead exemption is $140,000 plus 20% of appraised value. The seller's bill reflects the seller's value and exemptions, not yours.

   • File your own homestead exemption with HCAD after closing.
   • Budget separately for private alley trash service in Southampton, voluntary patrol contributions ($125 a quarter) and voluntary civic club dues ($100-$250 a year).

   What buyers will do: Pull the HCAD account, list its taxing units and estimate taxes at your purchase price before you set your budget.

   What to have ready: Your latest tax statement with its list of taxing units and your exemptions. Buyers know their own bill will be figured on their own value and exemptions, so a clear breakdown helps.

   Sources: HCAD · Harris County Tax Office rates · Houston ISD tax information

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.