A question for Cy-Fair area Realtors (Tomball, Pinehurst: for sale, 2015, rental)

[pnc66]

I will probably be looking to sell my house next year (2015) after I finish school at LSC Tomball. I'd like to move to a different area when I graduate. My house is located literally on top of Hwy 290 - as in the feeder is on the other side of the sound wall in my back yard. Right now I'm listening to the occasional bang and boom from the construction going on behind my house.

Houses in my neighborhood sometimes stay on the market for quite some time, other times, they're snatched up within a couple of weeks of when I see the "For Sale" sign go up. Everything one would need is located within a 2 or 3 mile radius and it truly does offer easy access to 290. It's just that if you're outside, you get the traffic noise at all hours of the day and night plus the car fumes.

My question is how difficult is it to sell a house that backs up to a major freeway? (Who in the world builds a neighborhood next to a freeway?!) Is that a true negative or just a negative in my mind?

[dd1153]

It only takes 1 buyer. There is a home for everyone. You will probably take a hit on price due to the fact it does back up to the highway.. but the good news is prices are up & inventory is down so you should still be ok.

[trbstang]

Since you have the sound wall, your home was possibly built before the freeway was put in. They are only typically installed where the freeway cuts into or runs right by an existing neighborhood. I think the neighborhood by the Cypress-Rosehill Walmart is the only one that installed the walls when it was built out. 30 years ago, Hwy 290 only went out to about 43rd street and there was only the feeder roads and blacktop roads along there further out to Cypress. As they built 290 out, they put in all the sound walls. Heck, I remember running my Mustang along the new Hwy 290 and 1960 when there was not any traffic.

[pnc66]

The house was built in 1981. LOL I can't imagine Hwy 290 and 1960 not having any traffic!
My mom and stepfather bought the house around 1989 I think and it was a rental for a while, then they moved in and did some repairs and fixed it up, then I was gifted with it. Ever since then, my mom has been telling me to sell it and move away from the freeway (she never liked the house). It really is a nice house, just the location backing up to the freeway isn't great. I wish I could pick it up and move it to a couple of acres around Tomball/Pinehurst/Magnolia.

Thanks all! It gives me hope