Morton Meadows

Morton Meadows curls its streets through the hills southeast of 42nd and Center — a 1920s plat of brick Tudors, Cape Cods, and storybook cottages whose curvilinear design broke from Omaha's grid a generation before the suburbs did. The Med Center campus is five minutes north, and the Saddle Creek corridor's businesses line the neighborhood's western edge.

Apartments for rent in Morton Meadows are limited — a few small buildings and converted units on the boundary streets — with most rental activity coming from single-family homes leased by owners, often to medical residents on multi-year programs. Renters wanting the neighborhood usually monitor it patiently; inventory surfaces in early summer with hospital calendars.

Homes for sale are the neighborhood's heart: brick Tudors with arched doorways and slate accents, on streets where owner tenure runs long and the neighborhood association is among the city's most organized. Pricing sits in Omaha's middle-upper band — below Dundee, above the citywide median — and homes with renovated kitchens behind original facades sell in days.