Two houses less than a half mile apart in an upscale Houston neighborhood were the priciest residences to sell in the region last week.
A newly built house at 11321 Green Vale Drive and a neighbor built in 2003 at 1111 Claymore Road, both in Piney Point Village, were listed at $9.8 million and $6.6 million, respectively, according to Homes.com. The home on Claymore Road sold on Feb. 21, with the other following three days later. The Claymore Road house was on the market for just six days before going under contract, while its counterpart sold in 13.
Piney Point, with 3,500 residents, is part of a cluster of six independent cities known as the Memorial Villages about 12 miles from downtown Houston. “Severe” deed restrictions keep non-residential uses such as shopping centers from intruding beyond the neighborhoods’ fringes, according to the Houston Association of Realtors.
“The villages have their own police and fire departments, which is something people are looking for, security,” said Brian Thompson, whose firm Thompson Custom Homes built the Green Vale Drive house from a design by Houston-area architect Robert Dame, in an interview. “People are spending a little more money to shelter in place.”
The Green Vale Drive property combines elements of a traditional English home with modern elements, using stucco, steel and stone for the exterior. Among the house’s notable elements are a 21-foot ceiling in the entrance foyer and floor-to-ceiling windows in the back. The 10,799-square-foot house has five bedrooms and seven bathrooms on 0.7 acres. Thompson’s business built the home to replace one dating from the 1980s that was torn down.
The Spanish Colonial-style Claymore Road home underwent a thorough renovation in 2024, according to its Homes.com listing. Its 9,289 square feet have the same number of bedrooms and bathrooms on a slightly larger lot. The property was listed by Tiffany LaRose of LaRose Kaileh Group.
The median single-family home sales price in the Houston region in 2024 was $344,000, according to the National Association of Realtors.
In Piney Point Village, the median price was about $3.6 million at the end of January, a 24% increase from one year earlier, according to Homes.com. The median household income was $231,000, with 80% of the homes in the neighborhood being owner-occupied.
