Apartment Buildings in Westchase and Briar Forest
Westchase is the office district around Westheimer, Richmond Avenue and Beltway 8 on Houston’s west side, with the Briar Forest and Woodlake streets to its north and east. This directory tracks 15 buildings of 50 or more units here — 6,300 apartments, the largest apartment count of any neighborhood on the site.
This is Houston’s deepest pocket of large 1970s and 1980s garden stock. Eleven of the fifteen were built before 2000, among them Woodlake on the Bayou (1972, 511 apartments) and Linara, formerly The Estates at Avenstar (1974, 592). Old Farm Apartment Homes on Old Farm Road is the biggest address at 734 apartments. Nothing rises above four floors, and the newest buildings in the category are Portico at West 8 (2008) and 88twenty on Westheimer (2016).
The category spans three ZIP codes and several distinct pockets: Woodlake and Briarmeadow in 77063, the Westchase District core in 77042, and the western Richmond Avenue blocks in 77082, where Park West at 15155 Richmond sits on the Alief edge of the district. Employment here is the Westchase office corridor itself rather than downtown, and Beltway 8, the Westpark Tollway and Westheimer are the through routes.
Every listing below carries its street address, unit count, year built, floor count, leasing phone number and the property’s own website.
Westchase / Briar Forest at a glance: 15 buildings · 6,300 apartments · built 1972–2016 · 2 to 4 floors.