Luxe Living and Lifestyle

JANUARY | FEBRUARY 2015

Your personal real estate group for wherever life takes you.

www.HeritageTexas.com

281.679.0101

11689 Westheimer, Suite C, Houston, TX 77077

Amanda Walsh

Amanda@HeritageTexas.com

Brandey Heckeroth

Brandey@HeritageTexas.com

ST D JU STE LI

Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth@HeritageTexas.com

LUXE LIVING AND

GET BOWLED OVER

Susan Chumchal Bishop

SusanCB@HeritageTexas.com

Featured Cover Property

ST D JU STE LI

Super Bowl Party Time!

20803 Winston Lake • Long Meadow Farms • Richmond

14014 Lakewood Crossing • Houston

ST D JU STE LI

ST D JU STE LI

11619 Gallant Ridge • Royal Oaks • Houston

3131 Bonnebridge • Royal Oaks • Houston

LD SO

LD SO

803 E. 26th Street

Stunning Sunset Heights home on double corner lot!

3-4/2-1/2 1734 Valley Vista • Ashford Village • Houston

111 Lake Loop • Cross Creek Ranch • Fulshear

LD SO

LD SO

2727 Stuart Manor • Royal Oaks • Houston

11815 Legend Manor • Royal Oaks • Houston

Stunning soft contemporary home located on expansive double corner lot in Sunset Heights. A fabulous home for entertaining with rich hardwood floors, divine finishes and architecture. Gourmet island kitchen offers granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances and gorgeous backsplash.

Open concept family room offers gas log fireplace, warm neutral color palette and array of windows. Incredible master retreat with ample wall space for furnishings and décor, spa-like master bath with frameless shower enclosure, hand selected marble and beautiful cabinetry. Separate living quarters above garage complete with private bath & kitchenette. Extended cover patio and outstanding private yard make for one remarkable outdoor living area!

www.HeritageTexas.com If your home is currently listed, this is not a solicitation for that listing.

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Luxury Market Update High-end Sales Surge

Show Stopping Fried Fish!

Eleven Eleven’s Red Snapper

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Featured Exclusively by Heritage Texas Properties

In Good Taste

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Eleven:Eleven Restaurant & Bar ElevenxiHouston.com | 713.529.5881

JANUARY | FEBRUARY 2015

WHOLE FRIED RED SNAPPER Ingredients

HELLO SPORTS FANS! If you’re into football (and a bit

For the sauce 4 baby bok choy sliced

of golf, too), have we got some news for you: Where can you be at five major sporting events over the span of roughly 30 days all within one warm, sunny state? It’s Arizona, of course, where from the end of December through February 1, you can catch some serious sports action at the Fiesta Bowl (December 31), the Cactus Bowl (January 2), the Pro Bowl (January 25), the Waste Management Phoenix Open (January 26 through February 1), and of course, the Super Bowl (February 1). So book your tickets— or if you’re lucky enough, your own private jet—and get ready to touch down in the Valley of the Sun for some stupendous sporting excitement.

No doubt, the biggest draw to Arizona during this action-packed time is Super Bowl XLIX, held this

1 green cabbage sliced 3 carrots shredded 1/2 c rice wine vinegar 2 tbsp hoisin sauce 1 tbsp Sriracha sauce 1/4 c fresh lime juice 1 tbsp honey For the snapper 2 c all-purpose flour 2 tbsp black pepper 1 tbsp salt 1 c cornstarch Preparation Preheat fry oil to 350 degrees and combine all dry ingredients. Take whole snapper or other whole fish, (have your market scale, gut and remove gills from fish when you purchase) and cut three to four 90 degree slices into each side of fish vertically. Lightly

year at the University of Phoenix Stadium. In case you didn’t know it, the Super Bowl is a major social and sporting scene. In fact, according to Forbes magazine the Super Bowl is among the biggest worldwide events for private jet travel, with an estimated 5,300 business and private jets journeying to Arizona the week of Super Bowl XLIX. There’s also a lot of eatin’ going down on Super Bowl Sunday, the second highest day of food consumption in the U.S., second only to Thanksgiving. This is tailgating in serious style.

And Phoenix is ready to host the Super Bowl like never before.

Since last hosting the big game in 2008, the city has pumped some $4 billion into new downtown development including 250,000 square feet of new retail space, a completed Phoenix Convention Center, 20 miles of light rail, 1,500 new hotel rooms, and more than 30 new restaurants. Ticket holders will also want to check out

Super Bowl Central, a 12-block pedestrian-friendly area in downtown Phoenix, which will serve as the hub of Super Bowl activity for fans, sponsors, media, and the NFL itself. Estimated to attract one million attendees, this hub will host football-themed activities, a nightly fireworks show, an autograph and concert stage, local food trucks, beer and wine gardens, and television network broadcast stages. Party central!

But let’s not forget about the Pro Bowl, held every year to highlight the NFL’s best and brightest as voted by the players, coaches, and fans, which will also be held at University of Phoenix Stadium. Fun fact: This game will be only the third time a Pro Bowl and Super Bowl are held in the same location, making Arizona the place to be this year for football fun. Throw in two college football bowl games and a major golf tournament, and you can see why Arizona is this season’s sports hot spot. See you at the stadium!

flour in mixture and fry for approximately 8 minutes.

For the sauce combine all ingredients and lightly

LUXURY HOME MARKET CONTINUES STRONG PERFORMANCE

sauté. Pour sauce over cooked fish and enjoy!

High-end or “luxury” real estate continues strong growth throughout the US in 2014 with sales of the priciest one percent of homes up 21.1% this year according to the real estate brokerage firm Redfin.

Contrast this with the other 99% of the real estate market which has dropped 7.6% this year. In about 10 housing markets throughout the country, high-end real estate sales have surged above 50% in 2014.

Luxury homes are considered those homes priced between $500,000 to $1 million and make up the highest one percent of the market in that locale, according to the real estate website Realtor.com.

However, location varies greatly on the price to reach the top one percent of that locale’s housing market.

For example, in San Francisco the top one percent of homes sold for $5.35 million or more. About 350 miles down the road in Los Angeles, the top one percent of homes sold for at least $3.65 million. The 2014 Texas Luxury Home Sales Report showed that luxury home sales are one of the fastest growing segments within

the Texas housing market. Luxury home sales made up 1.7 percent of the total housing market and had the second fastest-growing listing prices with a 46 percent increase from the same period in 2012.

Nearly every city in the US has highly coveted neighborhoods where buyers will often times purchase properties in that neighborhood “sight unseen”. Many times emotion plays a leading role in these purchases overcoming logic and practicality – much like the romance of falling in love. A buyer falls in love with the neighborhood and is willing to pay in order to get into that neighborhood.

Neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Francisco dominate the high-end real estate markets with the highest number of luxury home sales, according to Redfin’s “Luxury Report”. The top three neighborhoods leading the pack were Beverly Glenn ($11.86 million); Holmby Hills ($9.91 million); and Malibu Road ($9.51 million).

The most sought-after amenities for affluent home

buyers are a chef’s kitchen and sweeping views – especially ocean, mountain or cityscape views. Other desired features are the square footage of the property and an expansive master suite. Many affluent buyers cite the desire to have unique features in their properties – features with an exclusive back story that appeals to their need to impress. One Realtor highlighted a hand-carved stone bathtub in a luxury property’s marketing materials. This marketing message was designed to pull in buyers who want the one-of-a-kind feature that no one else would have.

Canadian Brass Stude Concert Hall- Rice University | January 20 ChamberMusicHouston.org | 713.348.5400 “The world’s most famous brass group” returns to the Chamber Music Houston series with their unbeatable humor and virtuoso playing. In an entertaining and diverse program, audiences will see firsthand why this quintet deserves its impressive international reputation.

“These are the men who put brass music on the map.” The Washington Post Comfort and the Eighteenth-Century Interior Rienzi | through February 1 MFAH.org | 713.639.7800 The 18th century marked the birth of comfort as an everyday concept, evidenced by innovations in everything from furniture trends to sartorial styles.

Objects from the period were increasingly designed to improve people’s physical or emotional wellbeing simply by making life more comfortable. Rienzi’s, Comfort and the Eighteenth-Century Interior, draws from the Museum’s permanent collections to showcase porcelain, silver, furniture, textiles and works on paper that demonstrate the idea as it was developed through art and material culture.

29th Annual Texas Home & Garden Show NRG Center | February 6-8 TexasHomeandGarden.com | 713.874.2231 Houston’s’ Premier “One Stop Shopping Opportunity” for all your home & garden needs. From Windows and Doors to Ceilings and Floors over 700 experts, products, services and ideas all under one roof. Attractions: vacation, leisure & outdoor attractions, green energy products, home décor, building products, kitchens, bath & more.

Character Man Stages Repertory Theatre | January 24- February 15 StagesTheatre.com | 713.527.0123 Character Man is a salute to the memorable character actors of Broadway’s Golden Age, including Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Barney Martin and two- time Tony Award winner David Burns. Packed with the iconic songs from Meredith Willson, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick and Stephen Sondheim, Character Man is part cabaret, part oral history and all heart.

World’s Championship Bar-B-Que Contest NRG Park | February 26-28 RodeoHouston.com | 832.667.1000 The World’s Championship Bar-B-Que Contest is three days of cooking, competition, eating and dancing during The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes to encourage and promote the breeding, raising and marketing of better livestock and farm products at public fairs and to promote and maintain research and educational functions within the livestock industry.

In Good Taste

Event Calendar

Eleven:Eleven Restaurant & Bar ElevenxiHouston.com | 713.529.5881

JANUARY | FEBRUARY 2015

WHOLE FRIED RED SNAPPER Ingredients

HELLO SPORTS FANS! If you’re into football (and a bit

For the sauce 4 baby bok choy sliced

of golf, too), have we got some news for you: Where can you be at five major sporting events over the span of roughly 30 days all within one warm, sunny state? It’s Arizona, of course, where from the end of December through February 1, you can catch some serious sports action at the Fiesta Bowl (December 31), the Cactus Bowl (January 2), the Pro Bowl (January 25), the Waste Management Phoenix Open (January 26 through February 1), and of course, the Super Bowl (February 1). So book your tickets— or if you’re lucky enough, your own private jet—and get ready to touch down in the Valley of the Sun for some stupendous sporting excitement.

No doubt, the biggest draw to Arizona during this action-packed time is Super Bowl XLIX, held this

1 green cabbage sliced 3 carrots shredded 1/2 c rice wine vinegar 2 tbsp hoisin sauce 1 tbsp Sriracha sauce 1/4 c fresh lime juice 1 tbsp honey For the snapper 2 c all-purpose flour 2 tbsp black pepper 1 tbsp salt 1 c cornstarch Preparation Preheat fry oil to 350 degrees and combine all dry ingredients. Take whole snapper or other whole fish, (have your market scale, gut and remove gills from fish when you purchase) and cut three to four 90 degree slices into each side of fish vertically. Lightly

year at the University of Phoenix Stadium. In case you didn’t know it, the Super Bowl is a major social and sporting scene. In fact, according to Forbes magazine the Super Bowl is among the biggest worldwide events for private jet travel, with an estimated 5,300 business and private jets journeying to Arizona the week of Super Bowl XLIX. There’s also a lot of eatin’ going down on Super Bowl Sunday, the second highest day of food consumption in the U.S., second only to Thanksgiving. This is tailgating in serious style.

And Phoenix is ready to host the Super Bowl like never before.

Since last hosting the big game in 2008, the city has pumped some $4 billion into new downtown development including 250,000 square feet of new retail space, a completed Phoenix Convention Center, 20 miles of light rail, 1,500 new hotel rooms, and more than 30 new restaurants. Ticket holders will also want to check out

Super Bowl Central, a 12-block pedestrian-friendly area in downtown Phoenix, which will serve as the hub of Super Bowl activity for fans, sponsors, media, and the NFL itself. Estimated to attract one million attendees, this hub will host football-themed activities, a nightly fireworks show, an autograph and concert stage, local food trucks, beer and wine gardens, and television network broadcast stages. Party central!

But let’s not forget about the Pro Bowl, held every year to highlight the NFL’s best and brightest as voted by the players, coaches, and fans, which will also be held at University of Phoenix Stadium. Fun fact: This game will be only the third time a Pro Bowl and Super Bowl are held in the same location, making Arizona the place to be this year for football fun. Throw in two college football bowl games and a major golf tournament, and you can see why Arizona is this season’s sports hot spot. See you at the stadium!

flour in mixture and fry for approximately 8 minutes.

For the sauce combine all ingredients and lightly

LUXURY HOME MARKET CONTINUES STRONG PERFORMANCE

sauté. Pour sauce over cooked fish and enjoy!

High-end or “luxury” real estate continues strong growth throughout the US in 2014 with sales of the priciest one percent of homes up 21.1% this year according to the real estate brokerage firm Redfin.

Contrast this with the other 99% of the real estate market which has dropped 7.6% this year. In about 10 housing markets throughout the country, high-end real estate sales have surged above 50% in 2014.

Luxury homes are considered those homes priced between $500,000 to $1 million and make up the highest one percent of the market in that locale, according to the real estate website Realtor.com.

However, location varies greatly on the price to reach the top one percent of that locale’s housing market.

For example, in San Francisco the top one percent of homes sold for $5.35 million or more. About 350 miles down the road in Los Angeles, the top one percent of homes sold for at least $3.65 million. The 2014 Texas Luxury Home Sales Report showed that luxury home sales are one of the fastest growing segments within

the Texas housing market. Luxury home sales made up 1.7 percent of the total housing market and had the second fastest-growing listing prices with a 46 percent increase from the same period in 2012.

Nearly every city in the US has highly coveted neighborhoods where buyers will often times purchase properties in that neighborhood “sight unseen”. Many times emotion plays a leading role in these purchases overcoming logic and practicality – much like the romance of falling in love. A buyer falls in love with the neighborhood and is willing to pay in order to get into that neighborhood.

Neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Francisco dominate the high-end real estate markets with the highest number of luxury home sales, according to Redfin’s “Luxury Report”. The top three neighborhoods leading the pack were Beverly Glenn ($11.86 million); Holmby Hills ($9.91 million); and Malibu Road ($9.51 million).

The most sought-after amenities for affluent home

buyers are a chef’s kitchen and sweeping views – especially ocean, mountain or cityscape views. Other desired features are the square footage of the property and an expansive master suite. Many affluent buyers cite the desire to have unique features in their properties – features with an exclusive back story that appeals to their need to impress. One Realtor highlighted a hand-carved stone bathtub in a luxury property’s marketing materials. This marketing message was designed to pull in buyers who want the one-of-a-kind feature that no one else would have.

Canadian Brass Stude Concert Hall- Rice University | January 20 ChamberMusicHouston.org | 713.348.5400 “The world’s most famous brass group” returns to the Chamber Music Houston series with their unbeatable humor and virtuoso playing. In an entertaining and diverse program, audiences will see firsthand why this quintet deserves its impressive international reputation.

“These are the men who put brass music on the map.” The Washington Post Comfort and the Eighteenth-Century Interior Rienzi | through February 1 MFAH.org | 713.639.7800 The 18th century marked the birth of comfort as an everyday concept, evidenced by innovations in everything from furniture trends to sartorial styles.

Objects from the period were increasingly designed to improve people’s physical or emotional wellbeing simply by making life more comfortable. Rienzi’s, Comfort and the Eighteenth-Century Interior, draws from the Museum’s permanent collections to showcase porcelain, silver, furniture, textiles and works on paper that demonstrate the idea as it was developed through art and material culture.

29th Annual Texas Home & Garden Show NRG Center | February 6-8 TexasHomeandGarden.com | 713.874.2231 Houston’s’ Premier “One Stop Shopping Opportunity” for all your home & garden needs. From Windows and Doors to Ceilings and Floors over 700 experts, products, services and ideas all under one roof. Attractions: vacation, leisure & outdoor attractions, green energy products, home décor, building products, kitchens, bath & more.

Character Man Stages Repertory Theatre | January 24- February 15 StagesTheatre.com | 713.527.0123 Character Man is a salute to the memorable character actors of Broadway’s Golden Age, including Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Barney Martin and two- time Tony Award winner David Burns. Packed with the iconic songs from Meredith Willson, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick and Stephen Sondheim, Character Man is part cabaret, part oral history and all heart.

World’s Championship Bar-B-Que Contest NRG Park | February 26-28 RodeoHouston.com | 832.667.1000 The World’s Championship Bar-B-Que Contest is three days of cooking, competition, eating and dancing during The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes to encourage and promote the breeding, raising and marketing of better livestock and farm products at public fairs and to promote and maintain research and educational functions within the livestock industry.

JANUARY | FEBRUARY 2015

Your personal real estate group for wherever life takes you.

www.HeritageTexas.com

281.679.0101

11689 Westheimer, Suite C, Houston, TX 77077

Amanda Walsh

Amanda@HeritageTexas.com

Brandey Heckeroth

Brandey@HeritageTexas.com

ST D JU STE LI

Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth@HeritageTexas.com

LUXE LIVING AND

GET BOWLED OVER

Susan Chumchal Bishop

SusanCB@HeritageTexas.com

Featured Cover Property

ST D JU STE LI

Super Bowl Party Time!

20803 Winston Lake • Long Meadow Farms • Richmond

14014 Lakewood Crossing • Houston

ST D JU STE LI

ST D JU STE LI

11619 Gallant Ridge • Royal Oaks • Houston

3131 Bonnebridge • Royal Oaks • Houston

LD SO

LD SO

803 E. 26th Street

Stunning Sunset Heights home on double corner lot!

3-4/2-1/2 1734 Valley Vista • Ashford Village • Houston

111 Lake Loop • Cross Creek Ranch • Fulshear

LD SO

LD SO

2727 Stuart Manor • Royal Oaks • Houston

11815 Legend Manor • Royal Oaks • Houston

Stunning soft contemporary home located on expansive double corner lot in Sunset Heights. A fabulous home for entertaining with rich hardwood floors, divine finishes and architecture. Gourmet island kitchen offers granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances and gorgeous backsplash.

Open concept family room offers gas log fireplace, warm neutral color palette and array of windows. Incredible master retreat with ample wall space for furnishings and décor, spa-like master bath with frameless shower enclosure, hand selected marble and beautiful cabinetry. Separate living quarters above garage complete with private bath & kitchenette. Extended cover patio and outstanding private yard make for one remarkable outdoor living area!

www.HeritageTexas.com If your home is currently listed, this is not a solicitation for that listing.

Produced by UpscaleRealEstateMarketing.com • 877.660.0996

Luxury Market Update High-end Sales Surge

Show Stopping Fried Fish!

Eleven Eleven’s Red Snapper

Luxe Living Cover Home

Featured Exclusively by Heritage Texas Properties