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Alex Prado · Global Real Estate Advisor
The Park Cities at walkable scale — sidewalks, alleys, and a house you can walk to dinner from.
University Park wraps around Southern Methodist University and shares Highland Park’s school district while feeling markedly different on the ground. Lots are more uniform, the grid is tighter, and the alleys behind every block keep garages and services off the street — a small planning decision that gives the neighborhood its unusually calm frontage.
The building stock skews slightly later than Highland Park and turns over faster. Original Tudors and Colonials sit beside a continuous wave of scrape-and-build traditional and transitional homes, most of them built for long-term ownership.
Snider Plaza, the SMU campus and the parks give the area a genuine center. For buyers weighing Highland Park against University Park, the honest distinction is usually lot size and price per foot against day-to-day walkability.
Current inventory is served through Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty. Alex represents buyers on any listing in University Park, whoever holds it.
Alex represents buyers on any University Park listing, including homes marketed by other brokerages. That means one advisor across the whole market rather than a different agent for each house.
Start a home search →A considered valuation for a University Park property — architecture, condition, land and position against current inventory — prepared personally, not generated.
Request a private evaluation →Yes. Like Highland Park it is an independent municipality surrounded by Dallas. Together the two are the Park Cities, and both are served by the Highland Park Independent School District.
Original period houses from the 1920s to the 1940s — Tudor, Colonial Revival, Georgian and traditional cottages — alongside a great deal of newer and expanded new-traditional construction.
Because lots are modest and regular, value turns on the house rather than the land. Two houses of similar footprint can differ substantially in framing, materials and how well an addition resolves against the original.
Most buyers do. The school district is shared, and the two towns are usually shopped together. The guide sets out how they differ.
Yes. Buyer representation covers every listing in the town, whoever holds it.