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  • Home sales are heating up in these greater Houston ZIP codes – Houston Agent Magazine

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    Nearly all of the top ZIP Codes for greater Houston home sales are in the suburbs and beyond, according to the Q4 2025 ZIP Watch from the Houston Association of REALTORS®.

    The association tracked the top 10 ZIP codes with the greatest year-over-year increases in home sales and found that 77484 — Waller — was the hottest in the entire Houston metro area, with home sales increasing 102.2% compared to the fourth quarter of 2024. The typical home there had an average sales price of $310,165 and spent 55 days on the market.

    That ZIP was followed by 77532 (Crosby), where sales increased 79.1% year over year with an average sales price of $260,629; 77521 (Baytown), where sales increased 77.5% with an average sales price of $266,675; and 77554 (the west end of Galveston Island), where sales increased 52% with an average sales price of $784,120. That ZIP was one of only three on HAR’s list with an average sales price greater than the Houston metro average, reported by the association as $425,535 for the fourth quarter.

    Also on HAR’s list were 77551 (Galveston), 77065 (northwest Houston/Jersey Village), 77578 (Manvel), 77510 (Santa Fe), 77336 (Huffman) and 77316 (Montgomery).

    The top 10 hottest ZIP codes in greater Houston (Chart courtesy of HAR).

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  • Grandfather killed in NW Houston fire sparked by smoking while on oxygen

    Grandfather killed in NW Houston fire sparked by smoking while on oxygen

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    HOUSTON, Texas – A grandfather died in an apartment fire in NW Houston early Saturday morning.

    At least one other person was taken to the hospital after escaping the burning building. Two children were also home at the time of the fire, but weren’t hurt.

    Family members tell KPRC 2′s Gage Goulding that the victim is David Brown.

    David Brown, the victim of a fatal apartment fire in NW Houston on February 24, 2024. (Copyright 2023 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.)

    According to the Houston Fire Department, they received a 911 call around 12:24 a.m. on Saturday at the Pine Forest Park Apartments on Deep Forest Drive.

    The fire starting after Brown, who was wearing his medical oxygen, lit a cigarette. His wife told KPRC 2 that Brown’s head was engulfed in flames.

    “He was standing there and he had them little small. He’s not supposed to be smoking with that oxygen,” Margaret Booker-Brown said. “He lit a cigarette like this here and it was flame all the same flame. It was flames all up on over his head, all the way to his ears.”

    The charred remains of an apartment at the Pine Forest Park Apartments in NW Houston after a fire killed a grandfather on February 24, 2024. (Copyright 2023 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.)

    Margaret grabbed her two grandchildren and ran.

    Her husband never made it out.

    Houston Firefighters rescued David, but he later died at the hospital.

    The charred remains of an apartment at the Pine Forest Park Apartments in NW Houston after a fire killed a grandfather on February 24, 2024. (Copyright 2023 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.)

    “He had health problems and things, but he didn’t have to go out like this,” said David’s step-daughter Aletha Booker. “My poor father. I don’t even know what to say, how to feel about this right now.”

    A total of eight apartment homes were damaged by the fire, smoke and water. Several families are now faced with finding a new place to live in the meantime.

    The Houston Fire Department says the official cause of the fire remains under investigation.

    Copyright 2024 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.

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    Gage Goulding

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