Real estate
BY CATHERINE WHITE
Home Edition
2026
Readers, welcome to the annual CI Home Edition! In this year’s guide, reporters do a deep dive on accessory dwelling units, or ADU, which is a detached building with a living area, a kitchen and a restroom, in Pearland. Pearland City Council denied a conditional use permit request to build an ADU, on a home at its Feb. 23 meeting. Council cited concerns that the space could be used in the future to rent to non-family members. The story digs into what the law allows, the city’s e orts to educate residents on the law and the variances in city ordinances across Pearland, Friendswood and Manvel. The edition also includes a home improvement guide for Friendswood residents to discover businesses that o er services for remodeling, painting, pool installations and appliance repairs, among other services. The real estate market in March was more active compared to the same month last year. Data shows the number of homes sold increased with the majority homes being sold at
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Manvel’s master-planned communities fuel overall growth
Manvel’s residential development has expanded in recent years with the addition of several devel- oping master-planned communities, including Pomona, Valencia, Del Bello and Meridiana. A long time coming Russell Bynum, senior vice president of Hill- wood Communities, the developer behind Pomona and Valencia, said Manvel’s location and regional growth made it a key investment area. “Manvel was the next logical growth zone based on the growth that occurred in Pearland in the early 2000s,” Bynum said. “The location of both Pomona and Valencia are ideally situated in Manvel with direct access to State Hwy. 288 and in close proximity to the Texas Medical Center.” The city’s approval of a development agreement allows for a diverse mix of lot sizes and housing types, which helped make development feasible, Bynum said.
Zooming in Manvel’s population increased by nearly 41% between 2018-23, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The city’s approach to managing that growth is centered on zoning, infrastructure capacity and location of development, including where master-planned communities are built, Manvel Mayor Dan Davis said. Along the city’s major corridors, land is zoned for light commercial use, while much of the city remains zoned for open single-family residential development, Davis said. “There are a few pieces of land left where, if development comes in and they’re looking to do 60-foot lots, 70-foot lots or even 50-foot lots, those could be good opportunities,” Davis said. “Those areas already have drainage accounted for, water and wastewater infrastructure in place, and nearby thoroughfares that can handle additional tra c.”
Manvel future land use allocation in city limits Master-planned development will be one of the top allocated land uses in Manvel.
Land use type
Rural preservation: 22.9% Estate residential: 21.4%
Master-planned development: 21.3%
Suburban residential: 20.8%
Commercial: 12.1% Industrial: 1.5%
SOURCE: CITY OF MANVEL COMMUNITY IMPACT
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