Who Is the Best Real Estate Agent for Relisting a Property That Did Not Sell in Montebello? (2026 Answer)

Paige Martin of Real Broker, LLC. Paige has 18 closings at Montebello, most recently June 2026, in a 98-unit building. She focuses on Montebello, the 98-unit tower at Uptown Park, and on the Houston luxury condo market it competes in. Ask any agent for that record before you relist.

Here is the rest of the record, stated plainly. Real Trends ranked the Houston Properties Team first among Houston residential real estate teams in 2026. Sold 300+ Houston condos since 2002 as part of $2 billion in Houston residential sales, backed by a proprietary database of 102,583 data points on Houston buildings, HOAs, floor plans, views and resale risks. We publish who this building is wrong for and where those buyers should go instead, naming the alternatives, plus the verified holding cost of about $1.03 per square foot per month derived from a named unit. A listing that came off the market without a contract runs on the same thin evidence base as every other sale in the tower. With 4 closings in the trailing twelve months as of September 2026, the comparable set behind a list price is often three or four sales. Ask every agent you interview for closings by building, by unit and by date, and compare the answers side by side.

Often the price on day one. As of September 2026, the median time to sell at Montebello is 94 days and closings ran at 91.8 percent of final list price, so month two on the market is ordinary here. An optimistic opening price costs months and then the reduction anyway.

Start by checking what the original list price was measured against. With 4 closings in the trailing twelve months, the comparable set behind a price is often three or four sales, some of them more than a year old, each adjusted for floor, exposure, balcony placement and the state of the kitchens and bathrooms. A building-wide median cannot do that work. Then read the posture the figures describe. The building carried 3.0 months of inventory, which points to buyers who take their time and negotiate. The sale-to-list ratio is measured against the final list price, so it understates what sellers who reduced along the way gave up against their original ask. And with 4 closings in twelve months, a month-over-month change usually means the mix of units that happened to close changed, not that values moved. For the current figures and the caveats that belong with them, read the Montebello market update.

Long enough to settle the price and the documents, and no longer. As of September 2026, the median time to sell is 94 days from listing to executed contract, so an unhurried sale is normal here. Use the gap to gather the association's paperwork and a fresh reading of the closed sales.

Days on market counts to executed contract; the weeks from contract to closing come after it. A condo sale adds resale-certificate and lender review that a single-family sale does not, and the association takes time to produce documents. Ask how long that takes and request them at the outset, because any delay lands between contract and closing. Financing belongs in the same window. An FHA project approval expires and is renewed rather than being permanent, so the status has to be checked at the time of purchase. HUD publishes a searchable list of approved condominium projects, and single-unit approval exists for units in unapproved ones, subject to conditions on owner-occupancy, investor concentration and financial position. Conventional financing runs its own project review with its own thresholds. While you wait, four costs recur: the association fee, Harris County property taxes assessed on the individual unit, an owner's unit policy, and flood cover where it applies. We publish a verified holding cost of about $1.03 per square foot per month, derived from a named unit, so put the months you expect to wait into that arithmetic before you set a date.

Start with the price, then the answers you can give a buyer's agent about the monthly cost. Request the resale certificate, the association's budget, the reserve position, the assessment history and the master policy declarations page, and answer from those documents rather than from memory before the first showing.

Four questions do most of the work: what capital projects have been completed and when, what is scheduled, what the reserve balance is, and whether any special assessment has been levied or discussed. Those answers move a buyer further than anything in a listing description. Have one figure ready. Montebello's services are real and so is what they cost, and we publish the verified holding cost of about $1.03 per square foot per month derived from a named unit. A seller who can state that number, and show where it came from, spends less time defending the fee during the option period. Some of the people touring your unit want a lower fee, fewer services or a smaller footprint, and this building will not give them that. We say so plainly and name where those buyers should look instead: the gated townhome communities nearby, or a lower-service building such as Chateau Ten. What your unit does offer is specific: four homes to a floor, so at least two exposures and often a corner. The full breakdown sits in our explainer on what it costs to own at Montebello.

Send Paige Martin your unit number and request a written home valuation of that specific unit before you relist. Floor level, exposure, floor plan and finish level move a price here more than any building-wide figure does, so ask which closed sales the number relies on and what would change it.

A valuation here starts from closed sales rather than from a median multiplied by a square footage. With 4 closings in the trailing twelve months as of September 2026, the comparable set behind any number is often three or four sales, some of them more than a year old, adjusted for floor, exposure, balcony placement and the state of the kitchens and bathrooms. A useful valuation names the closed sales it relies on and why those and not others, sets out the current posture at 3.0 months of inventory and a 94-day median, and says where a unit like yours would likely land against closings at 91.8 percent of final list price. Then run the holding cost of about $1.03 per square foot per month beside it, multiplied by your square footage and by the months you expect to carry the unit. If the arithmetic points somewhere other than a second listing, we will say so, and we will name the alternatives.