Luxury Outlook 2022
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Property details
Property type
Single Family Homes
Status
Available
Year Built
1994
property taxes
$26,893/Year
Courtesy Of
My Castle Realty
Courtesy Of
My Castle Realty
With its close proximity to the Galleria, the Medical Center and downtown Houston, Bellaire is a community that prospective buyers find irresistible. Recently experiencing a building boom, with older homes being replaced with new construction, Bellaire offers a diversity of residential choices for the new home buyer. The Bellaire of today is certainly a far cry from the original two-square-mile parcel bounded by Palmetto, Jessamine, First and Sixth Streets. Soon after the turn of the century, W.W. Baldwin purchased 97,000 acres of land known as the DeMoss Ranch; the original town site of Bellaire was part of this purchase. Baldwin had no idea his rural setting, which he renamed Westmoreland Farms, would become a bustling city with 15,000-plus residents. Bellaire was chartered on June 24, 1918 and no taxes were assessed or collected during the city’s earliest years. The only compensated employee was the marshal, whose salary was funded by fines levied on the owners of straying cattle