Free Denver Heights Apartment Locator, Near East Side
San Antonio Apartment Locators serves Denver Heights, the historic Near East Side neighborhood east of I-37 and south of Commerce Street, adjacent to Dignowity Hill and minutes from the St. Paul Square district. The stock runs heavily Class C: early-1900s bungalows, fourplexes, and single-family rentals with independent ownership, which makes this the submarket where a landlord reviews a complicated file directly rather than running a hard software cutoff. The Alamodome and Frost Bank Center anchor the western edge, VIA Metropolitan Transit runs along Commerce and Hackberry, and the Downtown employment core sits five to ten minutes out. Steady reinvestment has brought pockets of newer infill alongside the original character housing.
- Denver Heights
- Dignowity Hill
- Near East Side
- St. Paul Square
- Iowa Street corridor
- Commerce Street corridor
- Hackberry Street area
Same-day response during posted business hours.
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Free to renters
Community pays the referral fee
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TREC #9003398
Spirit Real Estate Group, LLC
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NAAL member
National Association of Apartment Locators
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Same-Day Response
During posted business hours
The gap between the listing and the answer
A renter working from a listing site sees sticker price and no signal about whether their application will clear in Denver Heights. Both gaps close with the same work.
The listing shows price, not policy
Zillow tells you a unit is available. It does not tell you the property wants 620 credit with a 7-year eviction lookback and will not take a guarantor. Two buildings on the same street, same rent, run different standards.
Application fees are the real cost of guessing
They run $50-$75 each and are non-refundable. Apply at four properties that were never going to approve your file and you have spent $200-$300 to be told no four times.
A $200 balance blocks like a $2,000 one
Property debt is the hardest single screening factor in San Antonio. A small balance is rarely ignorable; at a lot of properties it is a hard stop until it is cleared or a payment plan is documented.
The advertised rent is not the monthly cost
Valet trash, pest, RUBS water and sewer, billing admin and tech or amenity packages add 7-15% over base rent, and CPS Energy swings hard in summer.
Rent by unit type in Denver Heights
Ranges across the communities we work with in this submarket. The July 2026 metro averages for comparison: studio $888, 1BR $1,095, 2BR $1,394, 3BR $1,826.
| Unit type | Typical range | What drives the spread |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | $750 - $1,000 | Limited; most stock is 1BR and 2BR in fourplex and bungalow format. |
| 1 Bedroom | $875 - $1,150 | Below the July 2026 metro average of $1,095; older finishes are standard. |
| 2 Bedroom | $1,075 - $1,450 | The volume unit type in fourplex and single-family stock. |
| 3 Bedroom | $1,375 - $1,800 | Single-family and larger bungalows; proportionally large share of the non-conventional rental layer. |
Ranges across the communities we work with, confirmed July 2026. Metro baseline: RentCafe / Yardi Matrix, July 2026. Add the mandatory fee stack (7-15% over base rent) for your real monthly cost.
Commutes from Denver Heights
Off-peak drive-time estimates to the employment centers this submarket actually serves. Peak-hour times on Loop 410, Loop 1604, I-10, I-35 and US-281 run materially longer.
| Destination | Off-peak drive | Route |
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| Downtown employment core | 5-10 min | I-37 or surface streets; western edge addresses can reach the River Walk on foot |
| JBSA-Fort Sam Houston | 10-15 min | I-37 N then I-35 N or Broadway |
| South Texas Medical Center | 20-28 min | I-37 N to I-10 W |
Off-peak estimates, confirmed July 2026. We check your specific address and shift on request.
What the stock in Denver Heights is actually made of
The bulk of Denver Heights rental inventory is early-1900s Class C: bungalows, fourplexes, and single-family homes with independent ownership, street parking as the norm, and window units in most units. In-unit laundry connections are uncommon, and CPS Energy summer bills run higher than average in older units without central air. A thin layer of newer infill sits alongside the original stock, and the single-family and duplex share is proportionally large compared with the rest of the map. Independent ownership is the key variable here: on-site managers and owners review files directly more often than in any software-screened submarket. Clients should pull their own Bexar County JP record before applying. Blocks near the rail line carry noise on event nights at the Alamodome and Frost Bank Center.
Why building age matters to your application
About 18% of San Antonio's rental stock, roughly 47,352 units, was built between 1980 and 1989. That older Class B and C product is where an on-site manager still makes case-by-case decisions on a complicated file. Newer Class A generally runs a software rule with a hard floor. If your file carries a credit, rental history or background complication, the age profile of a submarket predicts your odds better than its reputation does.
How we handle specific communities in Denver Heights
Denver Heights rental inventory is tracked in the San Antonio Apartment Locators Screening & Cost Index with particular attention to which independent properties review property debt and broken leases case-by-case, and what deposit or documentation that requires. Because much of the stock is small-owner managed and not listed on platforms like Zillow or Apartments.com, our team confirms availability and screening standards directly with each landlord before passing the list to you. Properties here typically skip RealPage or Yardi-based software screening in favor of a direct owner review.
We publish aggregates rather than a public property list for one reason: a named list with a credit minimum attached goes stale within weeks, and a stale screening number is worse than no number. Every community entry we hand you carries the date it was last confirmed and who confirmed it. That is the standard our San Antonio apartment locators hold across every submarket in Bexar County, and it stays free to you.
Get the current list for Denver HeightsHow we search Denver Heights
Same three screening hubs, applied to this submarket's specific stock and screening standards.
Credit Issues
The credit file itself. Score, thin file, derogatory marks, and income qualification, matched to properties that will review it.
- Credit-band-to-class table: 650+ opens everything, down to Class C only under 550
- Deposit ranges and when a third-party guarantee applies
Rental History
What a prior landlord reported, broken leases, evictions, and property debt. The highest-intent of the three screening hubs.
- How amount owed and age of the incident drive the outcome
- Property-debt playbook, clear it or document a payment plan first
Background Issues
Criminal history, handled with the most care of the three hubs. Property policies stated factually, never framed as automatically disqualifying or acceptable.
- How offense age and class change the outcome
- Which property classes review older non-violent records case-by-case
Military & PCS Relocation
BAH-aligned, base-proximate searches for service members and PCS movers across Joint Base San Antonio, with SCRA guidance.
- BAH-to-neighborhood alignment by rank (MHA TX285)
- Proximity and commute realities for each JBSA base
Relocation & Remote Renters
For out-of-town renters who can't tour from 1,000 miles away, video walkthroughs, remote applications, and submarket orientation.
- Video walkthroughs of shortlisted units
- Remote application and lease signing
Luxury & High-Rise
High-rise and luxury inventory in the Pearl, Downtown, Stone Oak, La Cantera, and The Rim, with full fee-stack transparency at the top end.
- Which submarkets hold true high-rise and luxury stock
- The compressed ~$180/month luxury-to-mid-tier gap
Moving Concierge
Utility, internet, and insurance setup framed around San Antonio's unique municipal utility stack, CPS Energy and SAWS.
- CPS Energy setup (sole electric provider) and seasonality budgeting
- SAWS water/sewer setup
Four steps to a verified Denver Heights list
Tell us the complication
Three screening questions, credit, rental history, background, plus budget and move date. Nothing is shared with a property until you say so.
We pre-qualify your file
We check your file against current standards for communities in Denver Heights, and call the leasing office directly where the answer is not already recorded.
You get a verified list with the full math
Properties that will review your file, each with base rent, the mandatory fee stack, current concession, net effective rent and a confirmation date.
We advocate through application and lease
We flag your file to the leasing office ahead of the application, follow up during review, and handle a remote application and lease signing if you are moving from out of town.
Denver Heights on the map
Searching in Denver Heights?
Tell us the complication and the budget. We will tell you which communities here will review your file.
Why Denver Heights renters choose us
We publish the screening numbers
The rent range, commute times and class mix on this page are not behind a form. Check any other San Antonio locator site and see whether you can find the same thing for this submarket.
We pre-qualify before you pay anything
Your file gets checked against a property's current standards before you submit a non-refundable application fee. If it will not clear, we say so and route you somewhere it will.
We talk to leasing offices weekly
That is how we know which Denver Heights properties just dropped a credit minimum, which concessions never hit a listing site, and which on-site managers genuinely review a complicated file.
Free to you, and we explain how
The community pays a referral fee out of the budget it would otherwise spend on listing-site advertising. No cash-back gimmick, no fee to you, no charge if you never lease.
What renters searching Denver Heights say
We publish reviews only from this brand's own Google Business Profile, with written permission. The examples below are illustrative of the work and are labelled as such until verified reviews replace them.
"They ran my file first and told me straight which properties would look at a broken lease with a balance still owed. No wasted application fees."
Renter (example)
Northeast San Antonio
"I was PCSing to Fort Sam from out of state and leased sight-unseen off a video walkthrough. They matched the search to my BAH by rank."
Service Member (example)
Fort Sam Houston
"They showed me the full monthly cost, valet trash, RUBS, the tech fee, not just the sticker rent. The 'cheaper' unit was actually more expensive."
Renter (example)
Medical Center
Denver Heights: your questions
How close is Denver Heights to Downtown San Antonio?
Very close. The Downtown employment core is 5 to 10 minutes from most Denver Heights addresses via I-37 or surface streets, and the western edge of the neighborhood is within walking distance of the River Walk and convention district. That proximity at below-average rents is the practical argument for the submarket.
What kind of apartments are available in Denver Heights?
Mostly early-1900s Class C: bungalows, fourplexes, and single-family rentals with independent ownership. Window units and street parking are standard; in-unit laundry connections are not common. As of 2026, a 1BR in Denver Heights typically runs $875 to $1,150 and a 2BR runs $1,075 to $1,450, both below the San Antonio metro average. The single-family and duplex share is higher here than in most San Antonio submarkets.
Can I rent in Denver Heights with a broken lease or prior eviction?
Denver Heights is one of the more workable submarkets for complicated files because independent ownership is the dominant model. A landlord or on-site manager can review a file directly, which is different from how a RealPage or Yardi software rule operates at Class A properties. Clients should pull their own Bexar County JP record before applying. The age and balance of the incident drive the conversation more than the label - a $200 property debt balance is often treated the same as a $2,000 one until it is cleared or a payment plan is documented.
Does Denver Heights have in-unit laundry or off-street parking?
Both are limited in the original housing stock. In-unit laundry connections are not common in early-1900s bungalows and fourplexes. Street parking is the norm, and event nights at the Alamodome and Frost Bank Center increase demand on street parking across the neighborhood. If either is a requirement, we will identify which properties have it before you tour.
What transit options serve Denver Heights?
VIA Metropolitan Transit runs service along Commerce Street and Hackberry Street through the neighborhood. For future planning: the Silver Line rapid transit route has a projected eastern terminus near the Frost Bank Center, which would improve frequency and connections, but that service is projected around 2030 and is not yet operational.
How does event traffic affect parking in Denver Heights?
The Alamodome and Frost Bank Center host major events year-round. On event nights, parking demand spills into Denver Heights streets across the neighborhood. If you are touring on a game or event day, plan for that. If you are signing a lease, ask whether the block has meters or restrictions on event nights before you commit.
Is there a free apartment locator near Denver Heights?
San Antonio Apartment Locators covers Denver Heights and the broader Near East Side, including Dignowity Hill and the St. Paul Square area. Same-day response during posted hours, Monday to Friday 9 AM to 6 PM and Saturday 10 AM to 4 PM. The service is free to renters - the community pays a referral fee from the budget it would otherwise spend on listing-site ads.
Question not answered here?
Send it over with your file details and we will answer it against current property standards, not a general rule of thumb.
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Apartment help in Denver Heights
Free pre-qualification, same-day response during posted hours. We publish the numbers so you can apply where you have a real chance.
- Free to you. The community pays the referral fee
- Licensed under Spirit Real Estate Group, LLC
- No approval promises, no undated numbers