Living in
OVERTON PARK

Written by Eric Duran — Founder and Realtor, The Fort Real Estate · Updated November 2, 2026

The short answer: Overton Park trades around a $1,000,000 median at roughly $344 a square foot, with houses going under contract in a median 24 days at 97.4% of list. The range is what to understand: house sales ran from $523,000 up to $2,250,000, so the median describes a house in the middle of the neighborhood rather than the neighborhood itself. The condominiums along Bellaire Drive are counted separately and are not in these figures. At this pull there were seven active listings and four more under contract.

Thirty-seven closings is the most of any neighborhood around TCU. Westcliff managed 34 houses in the same twelve months, Tanglewood 20, Foster Park 17, University Place 12 and University West nine. If you are shopping this part of 76109 and you want actual choice rather than a waiting list, Overton Park is where the choice is.

Overton Park sits directly south of Tanglewood, along the bluffs above the Trinity. It was part of the L.G. Edwards ranch — founded in 1846 and still running cattle into the 1950s — and it takes its name from Cass Overton Edwards, born on the property in 1851. The family’s Cassco Land Company developed it, and most of the homes went up between 1955 and 1968.

Read the median carefully. House sales ran from $523,000 to $2,250,000, better than a four-fold spread. The condominiums along Bellaire Drive sit inside the neighborhood boundary but are counted separately and are not in these figures. The $1,000,000 median describes a house in the middle of the neighborhood, not the neighborhood itself. The median closed sale was built in 1965.

What you get is winding streets, larger lots and the same mature canopy as Tanglewood, with a mix of original mid-century homes and extensive renovations. The neighborhood association is active, which tends to show in how the place is kept.

Twenty-four days, at 97.4% of list. That is a healthy market, but it is slower and softer than Tanglewood’s eight days at 98.2% immediately to the north — same canopy, same era of house, less urgency. Expect around a dozen active listings at any given time.

Overton Park Elementary serves the area, at 4865 Briarhaven Road. The Texas Education Agency rated it an A, 94 out of 100, in its 2026 accountability ratings, with 533 students and a 16.2-to-1 student-teacher ratio.

Being in 76109 is not the same as being in the zone. I have seen buyers assume a 76109 address guarantees a spot at Overton Park or Tanglewood Elementary, and it does not — boundaries split streets, they are drawn address by address, and Fort Worth ISD is actively redrawing them. You can apply to transfer in, but a transfer is never a guarantee. I check the zone for the exact address before a client of mine writes an offer.

If you want to know where a specific Overton Park house lands inside that nine-fold range, call or text me at 817-703-1333.

Moving to Fort Worth for TCU? Living Near TCU puts Overton Park side by side with the five other neighborhoods around campus — drive times, walk times, and the occupancy rules that apply closer to the university.