Fountain Hills Estates, Lubbock
Southwest Lubbock · 79424 · half-acre custom homesites — a guide from Bre Brossman, REALTOR®
Turn in off 114th Street in far southwest Lubbock and Fountain Hills Estates announces itself the way it was designed to: a bricked entrance, a privacy fence along the highway side, and then lots with actual space between the houses. It's one of a small cluster of half-acre custom communities that have shaped this corridor over the last fifteen years — and it's a different product entirely from the production subdivisions that surround it.
Carl and Carlene Mortensen began developing it in 2010. The Fountain Hills Property Owners Association was formed as a Texas non-profit on October 1, 2010, and the Declaration was recorded in Lubbock County on October 22, 2010 as Instrument No. 2010035014. That paper trail matters more than it sounds like it should, and I'll explain why below.
First, the ZIP: it's 79424
Search this neighborhood and you'll see it tagged both 79424 and 79423. It's 79424. City of Lubbock building permits for lots inside the subdivision and current MLS listings both show 79424. The 79423 tag appears to have spread from two nearby addresses that genuinely are in 79423 — a builder's office and the Lubbock-Cooper ISD administration building. If you've been searching 79423 and finding nothing, that's why.
What you're actually buying: the lot
The half-acre homesite is the whole proposition here. Builder feature lists advertise ½-acre lots, and current listings in the neighborhood bear it out with lot sizes of 0.50 acre and 21,867 square feet. Other published features across the builders working here:
- City water, not wells
- Side-entry garages
- Restrictive covenants governing what gets built
- A bricked entrance and privacy fence bordering 114th Street
- Bricked outdoor shops permitted — genuinely unusual, and a real draw if you want a workshop
Homes are custom-built and large. David Rogers Homes publishes home sizes of 2,800 square feet and up; Trey Strong Custom Homes publishes 2,500 square feet and up. This is not a neighborhood of repeated floor plans.
The association question — and why it's lot-specific here
This is the detail I'd want to know before I made an offer, and it's the opposite of what most write-ups suggest.
You'll see other "Fountain Hills"-named subdivisions in Lubbock and assume they're unrelated entities to be careful about. They aren't separate — they're the same association. Per the association's management certificate on file with the state (effective May 2, 2025), the Fountain Hills Property Owners Association covers three subdivisions: Fountain Hills Estates, Fountain Hills, and Reunion Park.
And each one carries a Phase I exclusion. For Fountain Hills Estates, Phase I Lots 1 through 42 are excluded from the association.
So "does this neighborhood have an HOA?" has no single answer — it depends on the lot. Two houses on the same street can sit on different sides of that line. The management certificate lists a $250 resale/transfer fee, and current assessment amounts aren't published publicly. Before you write, confirm two things for the specific lot: whether it's in the association at all, and what the current assessment is. I'll pull the recorded documents and ask.
What homes here actually list for
Builders publish new-construction starting points in the mid-$400,000s. That's the floor, and it's the number that circulates. The real range runs much wider.
In a public snapshot taken August 20, 2026: an active listing in Fountain Hills Estates was priced at $1,220,000 — a four-bedroom, roughly 4,640-square-foot home built in 2025 on a 0.502-acre lot — and a pending listing was at $675,000. A lot of neighborhood write-ups cap this community in the high $600s. That's off by more than half a million at the top.
For context on the wider market, Bre's Lubbock Index puts the citywide median sale price at $249,925 for May 2026, per the Lubbock Association of REALTORS® — so Fountain Hills Estates starts well above the middle of the Lubbock market and goes considerably higher. That's consistent with what it is: an upscale custom-lot community.
Illustrative only — not a guarantee of value. This is a small neighborhood where a handful of listings moves the picture, and a snapshot is not a trend. Ask me for a current comparative market analysis on any specific address rather than relying on a neighborhood-wide figure.
Building here: who's active, honestly
David Rogers Homes and Trey Strong Custom Homes both publish live Fountain Hills Estates neighborhood pages, and Custom Homes by Robert Wood lists it among its neighborhoods. Trey Strong publishes plat maps covering Lots 116 through 214.
Two caveats I'd rather give you upfront than have you discover:
- David Rogers' own page currently states there are no homes for sale in the neighborhood. The mid-$400s figure is a build-from-scratch starting point, not standing inventory.
- Those plat maps show lot layout, not availability. They were uploaded in 2021. The developer's own pricing-and-availability page currently renders empty.
Lot availability and builder waitlists change constantly, which means no web page — including this one — can tell you what's open this week. That's a phone call, and I'll make it.
Schools: Lubbock-Cooper ISD, and what changed in June
Fountain Hills Estates is zoned to Lubbock-Cooper ISD. Most pages still say LCISD boundaries are "shifting." They're not — the decision was made.
The board approved a new middle and high school feeder system in June 2026. It begins in 2027-28, phases in by grade starting with the Class of 2031, and grandfathers every student older than that onto the original map. Elementary zones are unchanged. Original middle school zones hold through 2026-27. Under the new pattern, Laura Bush Middle School feeds Lubbock-Cooper High School and Lubbock-Cooper Middle School feeds Liberty High School.
Confirm the assigned campus for your exact address on the district's attendance zone maps.
What's around it
Milwaukee Avenue runs north from the neighborhood toward Loop 289, Texas Tech, and the UMC/Covenant medical district, and it's southwest Lubbock's main retail spine — a stretch with a hundred-plus retailers and businesses along it.
One correction worth making, because it appears on a lot of pages about this neighborhood: "The Shops at 98th" is not an operating retail center. It's a 35.77-acre commercial development site that is currently listed for sale, marketed entirely in the future tense. There are no tenants because there is no development yet. It may well become something; it isn't one now.
For outdoor space, the nearest city facilities on the corridor are the Thomas A. Martin Youth Sports Complex at 12401 Milwaukee — twelve softball fields, four baseball fields, restrooms, concessions, and a walking track — and Gary Ward Basin at Fulton Avenue and 98th, a playa lake with a 0.75-mile walking track, picnic areas and grills. Both are city parks near the neighborhood, not inside it; there is no park within the subdivision itself.
Is Fountain Hills Estates your fit?
It works if you want to choose your own builder and lot, you want half an acre and real setback between houses, a workshop matters to you, and you're buying above the middle of the Lubbock market. It's the wrong search if you want move-in-ready inventory, a low-maintenance yard, subdivision amenities like a pool or clubhouse, or a predictable HOA structure — because here, it depends on the lot.
If you're weighing it, I'll get you the association status and assessment for the specific lot, the recorded covenants, the current zoned campuses, and an honest read on what's actually available to build on right now.
Ask Bre about Fountain Hills Estates
Bre Brossman, REALTOR® — Realty Refined. Call or text (806) 445-5189, or ask her AI concierge any hour of the day.
Details on this page were verified against public sources — City of Lubbock permits and parks records, the association's management certificate on file with the State of Texas, builder-published materials, Lubbock-Cooper ISD, and current public listings — on August 20, 2026, and are illustrative only, not a guarantee of value. Association membership, assessments, lot availability, builder pricing, and school attendance boundaries change; confirm current details for a specific address before making a decision. Citywide median from the Lubbock Association of REALTORS® May 2026 market report, published July 6, 2026.