Huffman sits on the north-east side of Lake Houston, unincorporated Harris County, a mixture of lake-adjacent property, acreage and conventional subdivision housing.
ZIP 77336 produces an unusual pair of numbers. The median house sells in 48 days, which is quick by metro standards. At the same time the ZIP carries 8.16 months of supply across 298 active listings, which on its face describes a heavily oversupplied market.
Both figures are accurate and they are not contradictory. They describe a market that has split into two, and understanding which half your property is in matters more here than almost anywhere else on this site.
The Huffman Market, ZIP 77336
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Median sale price | $259,990 |
| Median days on market | 48 days |
| Months of inventory | 8.16 |
| Active listings | 298 |
| One-year return | +1.11% |
| 20-year total return | +97.1% |
77336 covers Huffman and the surrounding lake area. It mixes waterfront, acreage and subdivision housing, which is why the median and the supply figure tell different stories.
Source: HouseCanary ZIP-level market data, July 2026. Last verified 27 July 2026.
What Actually Decides a Huffman Sale
The split market. A 48-day median means half of everything that sells goes faster than that. An 8.16-month supply means a large body of listings is not selling at all and keeps accumulating. Correctly-priced, presentable houses are moving quickly. Everything else is sitting, and the sitting stock is what inflates the supply figure.
Lake Houston frontage. Waterfront and lake-adjacent property values separately from everything else. Bulkhead condition, dock condition and how the lot sits relative to lake level all matter, and none of them appear in an automated valuation.
Lake levels are managed. Lake Houston is a water-supply reservoir with controlled releases. Owners along it experience level changes that have nothing to do with local rainfall, and buyers ask about it. Flood history and any claim are on the disclosure and the county record.
Septic, wells and acreage. Much of Huffman sits outside MUD service. A financed buyer's lender typically wants the septic inspected, and acreage parcels struggle for comparable sales at appraisal.
The circumstances that bring Huffman owners to us are landlords done with the drive and properties with flood damage on the record.
We buy throughout Huffman, including Huffman, Lake Houston shoreline, Huffman Cleveland Road, FM 1960 East corridor, Commons of Lake Houston, Atascocita borders, Crosby edge and Luce Bayou side.
Which Half of the Market Are You In
This is the most useful thing to work out before you do anything else in Huffman, and it takes about ten minutes.
The fast half. Conventional houses, sound condition, priced against what has actually closed rather than against what is currently asking. These are selling around and under the 48-day median. If your house fits that description, list it. We will not out-pay a functioning market.
The stuck half. Waterfront with an aging bulkhead. Acreage with no recent comparable sales. Houses with flood history and a claim on record. Properties needing work beyond cosmetic. Anything priced from a 2022 comparable. These are the 298 listings feeding the 8.16-month figure, and some of them have been listed for a very long time.
How to tell. Look at what has sold on your street in the last six months, not at what is currently listed. Current listings include everything that has failed to sell, and pricing against them is how a house joins them.
If you are in the stuck half, the question is whether the problem can be fixed with money and time you have. Frequently it can. Where it cannot, a cash sale is the alternative to an indefinite listing.
Sound conventional house priced off recent closings: list it, 48 days is a real number for that half of the market. Waterfront problems, flood claims, acreage or repairs: that is the half of the market that does not move.
Twenty Strong Years, Which Is Not the Same as a Quick Sale
97.1 percent over twenty years is a good result. It beats Kingwood at 87.2, Porter at 68.7 and New Caney at 57.8, and it is up 1.11 percent over the past year while several nearby ZIPs went backwards. Only the Humble and Atascocita ZIP, at 112.8, has done better in this corner of the metro.
Two things explain it. The lake is a genuine and permanent amenity that does not get built more of, and Huffman started from a low base, so proportional gains come easier here than in an area that was already expensive.
What that means for you as a seller is worth stating carefully. Long-run appreciation is not liquidity. A property can have doubled over twenty years and still take eight months to sell, and plenty here are doing exactly that.
So the twenty-year figure is a good reason to hold if you can. It is not a reason to expect a quick sale, and it is not a number to price from.
