Bayou Park · Dickinson, Texas

436 Old Orchard Court

$789,999 · 5 bed · 3 full, 1 half bath · 3,660 sq ft · .646 acre

Two-thirds of an acre at the end of a gated cul-de-sac. Five bedrooms, a pool and spa, and a back yard with room left over for the sport court.

Schedule a showing Walk it in 3D See the photographs What "gated" means here
.646 acreCul-de-sac lot, gated section
2014Built by K. Hovnanian
2021Pool and spa installed
Zone X500Outside the SFHA
$650 / yrHOA, mandatory — one bill

Walk it yourself

The whole house, in 3D.

A Matterport scan of every room. Walk it at your own pace, in your own time, before you ever drive out here.

Rather not wait for it to load? Open the tour at Matterport.

If you've been looking on this side of the county

You already know what's out there.

Acreage with a house you'd have to redo, or a new build on a sixth of an acre. Here are the answers to the questions you were going to have to ask twice.

"Seven hundred ninety thousand. In Dickinson."

.646 of an acre at the end of a cul-de-sac inside a gated section, 3,660 square feet, pool and spa. Price per square foot and price per acre both move against you the moment you cross into League City or Friendswood looking for the same thing.

"The pool will be the first thing that breaks."

Installed in 2021. Five years old, and the owners who put it in are the ones selling it — so the equipment history is first-hand and it is in the disclosure rather than in a story.

"Gated means a four-hundred-a-month HOA."

$650 a year. Mandatory, Bayou Park III. Once a year, one bill. Read the resale certificate for what it covers before you assume either direction.

"Gated, sure. But that gate is a camera, not a guard."

Correct, and worth saying plainly: the entrance is controlled and monitored, not manned. If you are expecting a staffed gatehouse, this is not that.

What actually changes your day is the street. Old Orchard Court is a 60-foot private street — per the recorded survey — and it dead-ends in the cul-de-sac this house sits on. No through traffic, no cut-through, nobody's shortcut. That is the part you notice with kids on bikes.

One practical note: some carriers credit controlled-access communities and some do not, and the ones that do rarely apply it unless asked. Worth raising with your own insurance agent. Talk to them about the gate — not to us, and not to a listing page.

"A 2014 build is right at the age where things start going."

Fair, and that is exactly why the seller's disclosure is on this page before the first showing instead of surfacing on day six of your option period. K. Hovnanian, 2014. Bring your own inspector and check it against what the owners wrote.

Worth understanding before you buy

What "gated" actually means.

It is the feature buyers ask about most and understand least. Three communities can all advertise the word and give you three different things. Here is how to tell them apart, and what to ask about this one.

There are three kinds of gate

Staffed. A person in a gatehouse, logging visitors. Rare in this price band and expensive to run — you pay for it in the dues, every month, forever.

Controlled access. A code, a clicker or a card, with cameras on the entrance. No one is sitting there. This is Bayou Park Sec 3 — monitored, not manned, and you should picture it that way rather than picture a guard.

Decorative. A handsome gate that stands open all day and closes at night, or never closes at all. It is landscaping. Some listings still call it gated.

None of these is wrong to buy. Knowing which one you are buying is the whole point.

The benefit is traffic, not security

A gate deters the opportunist and the bored. It does not stop someone who actually wants in, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling. Buy a gate for what it reliably delivers, which is who is not driving down your street: no cut-through commuters, no door-knockers working the neighborhood, no one turning around in your driveway at eleven at night.

Here that effect stacks three deep. The section is gated. Old Orchard Court is a 60-foot private street, per the recorded survey. And it dead-ends in the cul-de-sac this house sits on. Nobody drives past this house on the way to anywhere, because there is no anywhere past it.

The question almost nobody asks: who maintains it?

This is the part worth learning once and using on every gated house you ever look at. A private street is not the city's problem. The city does not repave it, does not fix its drainage and does not send anyone when the gate motor dies. The association does — which means the association needs money set aside for a road, a gate, and the cameras on it.

So when you see a low annual due in a community with private streets, that is either impressive budgeting or a deferred bill, and the documents tell you which. Ask for four things before your option period ends:

  • The resale certificate — dues, what they cover, any current or planned special assessment
  • Whether the association or the city maintains the street, and who maintains the gate
  • The reserve study, or whatever stands in for one, and when the streets were last resurfaced
  • How guests, deliveries and contractors get in, because you will be letting people in constantly

For this property: $650 a year, Bayou Park III, mandatory. Read the resale certificate and judge that number against what it is being asked to maintain. That is the honest way to evaluate it, in either direction.

The house

No angles hidden.

The lot, the pool, and every room. If a photograph is not here, it is because the house does not have that room — not because we skipped it.

The particulars

The numbers, plainly.

Price
$789,999
Bedrooms
5
Baths
3 full, 1 half
Living area
3,660 sq ft*
Lot
.646 acre*
Year built
2014*
Builder
K. Hovnanian
Lot position
Cul-de-sac
Pool / spa
Yes — added 2021
Subdivision
Bayou Park, Sec 3 — gated
HOA
$650 / year, mandatory
HOA association
Bayou Park III
FEMA flood zone
X500 — outside SFHA
Prior flooding
Harvey 2017, rebuilt
MLS #
38192111
School district
Dickinson ISD*
Schools
Lobit Elementary, Lobit Middle, Dickinson High*
Total tax rate
2.3497% (2025)*
Water district
Dickinson WCID #1*
Stories
2
Garage
3-car attached, tandem*
Heating / cooling
Central heat, central air
Roof
Composition shingle*
Foundation
Slab*
Exterior
Brick veneer with stone
Street
Private, 60 ft — cul-de-sac
FEMA panel
48167C0229G (08/15/2019)
Legal description
Lot 31, Block 1, Bayou Park Sec 3 replat
Tax ID
1522-0000-0031-000

* Square footage, lot size, year built, construction details, tax rate and school district are per the Galveston Central Appraisal District, FEMA and other third-party sources. The tax rate shown is the 2025 combined rate for Dickinson ISD, Galveston County, Mainland College, Dickinson WCID #1, the City of Dickinson and County Road/Flood. A new owner's tax bill will not match the current owner's — the assessed value is currently held below market by the homestead cap, and that cap resets on sale. Budget from the rate and the market value, not from the seller's bill. Buyer should independently verify all measurements, acreage, school attendance zones, tax rates and HOA terms to their own satisfaction.

Room by room

What you actually get, measured.

Fourteen rooms with dimensions, so you can work out whether your furniture fits before you drive out here rather than after.

Primary bedroomFirst floor18 × 14
Living roomFirst floor17 × 17
KitchenFirst floor15 × 14
BreakfastFirst floor10 × 12
Dining roomFirst floor12 × 11
StudyFirst floor12 × 12
SunroomFirst floor9 × 9
UtilityFirst floor8 × 6
Game roomSecond floor18 × 12
Media roomSecond floor13 × 11
BedroomSecond floor14 × 11
BedroomSecond floor13 × 12
BedroomSecond floor12 × 13
BedroomSecond floor11 × 13

Room dimensions are from the MLS listing and are approximate. Measure anything you intend to build or buy furniture around.

Before you visit

Read it first, not last.

The complete seller's disclosure, exactly as the owners filled it out. Most listings make you ask. This one hands it to you.

Request the disclosure directly

Come see it

Bring your agent. Or bring none, and know where I stand.

Text me at 281-650-7592 and I will set the showing up myself. That is the whole process — no form, no portal, no account to create.

Already working with an agent? Just hand them this address — the showing instructions are in the MLS listing and they will know what to do with them. If you are shopping on your own, text me instead.

I represent the seller. If you have an agent, bring them — that is the cleanest way to buy this or any house, and it costs you nothing to have someone whose job is your side of it. If you do not have one, I will still open the home for you. What I cannot do is advise you: not on price, not on terms, not on what to offer or what the seller might take. I can hand you what is public and unlock the door. Anything past that is the job of an agent who works for you, and you should have one before you write.

Kelli Owens

Texas REALTOR® · The KO Realty Group

TREC License #616346

281-650-7592

kelli.owens@thekorealtygroup.com

The Sears Group

Licensed Texas Real Estate Broker · TREC License #9008344

Christopher Sears, Designated Broker · TREC License #457682

713-357-0068

sell@searsgrp.com

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