Houston
Houston opens in Montrose, the 1911 garden suburb inside the Loop that became the city's cultural core: boulevards of mansions and bungalows, the Menil Collection and the Rothko Chapel on residential streets, and Westheimer running through the middle of it, about two miles west of downtown.
Metro Snapshot
Montrose sets the first comparison points. Its Redfin median sale price of $775,000 (Neartown / Montrose, September 2026) buys a Walk Score of 92 at the West Gray core, an average one bedroom rent of $1,472 a month, and downtown Houston about two miles east. Around it, the metro brackets the range: the Museum District trades quieter and more institutional, Midtown trades newer and denser with the rail line, and the Heights trades a similar streetcar vintage at a family pace.
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Montrose
A 1911 garden suburb that became Houston's cultural core: boulevards of mansions and gray bungalows around the Menil Collection and the Rothko Chapel, Westheimer's restaurants, bars and shops running through the middle of it, and downtown Houston about two miles east.
Median $775,000Walk Score 92
Photo: Jacklee, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Around Montrose sit its natural comparisons: the Museum District to the south, Midtown to the east, and the Heights across Buffalo Bayou.