Pick a lot! Homebuyers sleep over for Reserve at Clear Lake

CLEAR LAKE – It looked like a scene straight out of a new iPhone unveiling. More than 100 prospective homebuyers lined up — some overnight — to purchase a new home at The Reserve at Clear Lake City.

The Reserve at Clear Lake City, a new 372-acre luxury community — located southeast of Sam Houston Pkwy. and I-45 near Ellington Field — is the first new home development in the southeast Houston suburb in nearly two decades.

Trendmaker Homes and Village Builders are planning to build 740 homes ranging in price from $300,000 to $1 million. Both Houston home builders launched presale events this month, attracting more than one 100 people.

"We had people wait in line overnight to be able to pick their lot," Will Holder, Trendmaker’s president, said in an email to the Houston Business Journal. "I’ve been building in Houston for 35 years and never seen such strong interest."

The Trendmaker community will feature single-family homes on 55-, 70- and 80-foot lots, a gated patio home neighborhood and a shopping center anchored by an H-E-B Grocery store, shops and restaurants.

Neighborhood amenities include miles of hiking and biking trails as well as a recreation center with a swimming pool, splash pad, tennis courts and playgrounds. Residents will be zoned to Clear Lake Independent School District.