New Construction · Houston, Texas
16 ft garage 12 ft ceilings down 10 ft up
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The Luxplex
Most duplexes are built to a budget. This one was designed, with intention. The lighting is layered so you can change the room depending on the hour and your mood. The rooms open up and still wrap around you, with the ceiling height to carry the scale. Natural light pours through all day.
Finished the way a custom home is finished, on both sides. Walk in and you look up. That is the moment people go quiet.
A wider staircase, an oversized island, rooms that let the furniture breathe. Nothing here was sized to the minimum and nothing feels forced.
Twelve foot ceilings downstairs, ten upstairs, eight foot doors, and a sixteen foot garage tall enough to build into.
Seven foot picture windows on the first floor, cabinetry lit from inside, above and below, ambient lighting throughout, and a primary suite that opens to the trees.
Upgraded quartz with real movement in the stone, a custom hood and a pot filler, accent feature walls, a wine bar under the stairs, surround sound in the living room and prewired security on each side.
The First Floor · Light PackageThe Kitchen
Upgraded quartz with real pattern in the stone, not the flat builder slab. Soft close cabinetry lit from inside, above and below. A custom hood and a pot filler over the range, with the stainless steel package. And a wine bar tucked under the stairs, with its own wine fridge, which is not a thing you find in a duplex.
Twelve foot ceilings on the first floor, ten upstairs. You feel that before you notice anything else in the room.
The island is the first thing you see from the front door and the last thing you leave at night.
The Primary SuiteThe Primary Suite
The primary suite is the largest room in the house and it has its own private balcony. Inside, a separate seating area, two closets, a double vanity, a soaking tub, a walk-in shower and a separate toilet room.
Downstairs, a second oversized balcony opens off the back of the first floor. Two outdoor rooms, one for morning and one for the evening.
Highlighted Upgrades
The Video
Seventy eight seconds through the completed home by the same builder, same plan. Front door to back balcony.
4927 Rue is in its final phase of construction, with upgraded finishes and features beyond the ones in this video. The bones, the light and the scale are the same.
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Gallery
Two different modern finish packages, one on each side, both luxurious and both finished to the same standard. Twelve foot ceilings downstairs, ten up. A wine bar under the stairs. Two oversized balconies per side: one off the primary, in the trees, through a sliding glass door, and one off the back of the first floor. The rare pairing out here is a garage on each side and a gate across the driveway, and this has both.
Your Options
An investor would call these exit strategies. In plain language, it is what you can do with a building that has two of everything. Pick the one that fits your life right now. You can change your mind later without selling.
One
This is the one people call a house hack. You live on one side. The other side is leased, behind its own walls, its own garage and its own front door.
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Two
Two separate three bedroom homes under one roof and one address. Lease them furnished or unfurnished, by the night, by the month, or by the year. Short term, medium term, long term. You have a great investment opportunity either way you decide to go. Built for exceptional rental performance, short, medium or long term.
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Three
Two complete homes, sharing a wall and a driveway gate and nothing else. Two kitchens, two garages, two front doors. Close enough to walk next door. Separate enough that nobody is living on top of anybody.
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The Lender Concierge
This building can be your home, an income property, or both at the same time. Which one you are after changes how it should be bought, and most people only find that out after they have already chosen a path.
Tell me what you are trying to do with the building and I will put you in front of a lender who actually structures these. Not a general loan officer, someone who has done two unit financing before and knows how it gets underwritten. You bring the goal, they build the path.
Connect me with a lenderNo cost and no obligation. You are never required to use anyone I introduce you to.
Why This Pocket
Fourteen minutes to the Texas Medical Center. Thirteen to Reliant. Eighteen to Hobby. Those numbers matter less as a commute than as a tenant pool, because the people who staff all of it have to live somewhere, and very few of them can find a new build with a garage on each side this close in.
Billions are going into the ground around this pocket this decade. Here is what, and here is what each one puts within reach of this address.
RodeoHouston broke ground on The Farm on September 17, 2026. A million square foot agricultural complex at Airport Boulevard and Highway 288, open year round from the 2029 Rodeo. The Rodeo calls it the largest single facilities investment in its history and states it is funding the project itself. About 4 miles from the front door.
Rendering courtesy of the Houston Livestock Show and RodeoWhat it puts near youYear round programming four miles away, on the corridor the city is already rebuilding around. Traffic, jobs and attention arrive on 288 before they arrive anywhere else nearby.
Seven new gates, six domestic and one international, in the West Concourse expansion now under construction. Completion is targeted for the second quarter of 2027. About 8 miles.
Rendering courtesy of Houston AirportsWhat it puts near youAn airport you reach in about eighteen minutes, which is the whole ballgame for the travel heavy professional deciding where to live.
Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0Four venues on one campus six miles away, running better than 400 events a year. The Texans, committed here through 2032. The Rodeo, which drew 2,621,765 to the grounds in 2026 and has stated its new complex on 288 will complement Reliant Park, not replace it. And this summer, seven World Cup matches, nearly all at the full 68,777.
What it puts near youA crowd engine that runs most weeks of the year, not one week a year. Seven near sellouts in three weeks showed the ceiling. The 400 events underneath them are the floor.
Carol M. Highsmith, Library of CongressThe largest medical complex in the world, with 120,000 employees, 10 million patient encounters a year and $4 billion of construction underway. A hotel, conference center and residential tower at Helix Park start construction this year. About 7 miles.
What it puts near youThe largest concentration of stable, credentialed employment in Houston, fourteen minutes from this door. That is the demand engine underneath everything else on this list.
Carol M. Highsmith, Library of CongressHarris County priced a full renovation at $752 million against $55 million to take it down. No vote has been taken and the Astrodome Conservancy spent this summer gathering redevelopment proposals. Still an open question, 6 miles away.
What it puts near youWhatever the Astrodome becomes, it becomes that six miles from here. Worth watching.
Carol M. Highsmith, Library of CongressWhere It Sits
Bayou Estates, in the Medical Center South corridor of Houston, Texas. A pocket of new construction on quiet streets, close to the largest medical complex in the world.
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4927 Rue Street is finishing out now. Tell me how you would use it and I will put you at the front of the line for the first showings.
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Realtor · Investor · Strategist · Designer
I have watched this builder work more than once. A standard plan has never been enough for him. He always goes higher.
Decisions in these rooms went past what was drawn. He chose to upgrade and add features because the room deserved them.
I have seen him build to a specification and then keep going. He builds for the mornings, the gatherings, the quiet hours, the experiences, and the luxury aesthetic that is a treat for the eyes.
With this one he has gone higher still.
So whatever you decide to do with it, know what you are getting. He is not handing anyone a builder-grade box. He is handing over two luxury custom homes.
Legacy Realty Katrina Gray Group · Braden Real Estate Group
