{"id":380070,"date":"2026-07-20T21:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380070\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:16:07","slug":"houstons-hottest-markets-lie-in-the-outer-suburbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380070\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston\u2019s hottest markets lie in the outer suburbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston home sales were strongest in the outer suburbs during the second quarter of the year, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.har.com\/content\/department\/newsroom?pid=2240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Houston Association of REALTORS\u00ae<\/a>\u2019 quarterly ZIP Watch.<\/p>\n<p>The ZIP code with the biggest year-over-year increase in home sales last quarter was 77461 \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonagentmagazine.com\/2026\/01\/22\/m-i-homes-wild-oak-needville\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Needville<\/a> area in Fort Bend County \u2014 followed by 77316 (Montgomery), 77551 (Galveston), 77336 (Huffman), 77327 (Cleveland), 77598 (Webster) and 77306 (Montgomery\/Conroe).<\/p>\n<p>Only two ZIPs on HAR\u2019s list were located closer to the city center: 77056 (The Galleria\/Tanglewood) and 77508 (Pasadena).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the full map of Houston\u2019s hottest ZIP codes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Zip_Watch_Q2_26-scaled-1-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1307915\" class=\" wp-image-1307915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Zip_Watch_Q2_26-scaled-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"863\" height=\"1079\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1307915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ZIP code with the biggest year-over-year increase in home sales last quarter was 77461, according to the Houston Association of REALTORS\u00ae\u2019 quarterly ZIP Watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston home sales were strongest in the outer suburbs during the second quarter of the year, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1689,7216,27690,56,24716,58,57,50989,64830,51560,9877,66413,4939,51001,20110,64831],"class_list":["post-380070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-cleveland","tag-galveston","tag-har","tag-houston","tag-houston-association-of-realtors","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-real-estate","tag-houston-zip-codes","tag-huffman","tag-montgomery","tag-needville","tag-pasadena","tag-sc","tag-webster","tag-zip-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}