Houston days on market and the Texas condo resale forms
Selling a Montebello High-Rise Condo: Houston Market Time and the Texas Condo Forms
Updated October 2026
How long does a high-rise condo in Montebello take to sell in Houston, and what paperwork do buyers get?
As of October 2026, a Montebello condo took a median 38 days to reach contract, and its buyer gets a resale certificate the condominium association prepares and signs.
Paige Martin, Houston Properties Team, Montebello
Source: Montebello market data as of October 2026.
How long does a Montebello condo take to reach a contract?
As of October 2026, the median home at Montebello took 38 days to go from listing to an executed contract. That count stops at the signed contract, and funding follows weeks later.
The tower holds 98 homes, four to a floor, and 4 of them closed in the trailing twelve months. A median built on so few sales moves whenever one closing enters or leaves the window. The building carried 6.0 months of inventory, a ratio that jumps when a single home is listed or goes under contract.
For a seller, the opening price sets the clock. A home listed above what its own stack has closed at tends to wait out the median, then reduce anyway.
How does Montebello's pace sit against Houston and Texas figures?
In its housing insight for October 2024, the Texas Real Estate Research Center reported that the state's average days on market fell to 61 days in October, a two-day drop. In the same report, the Texas Real Estate Research Center put Houston's median price at $337,852, after a 0.1 percent fall.
The Texas Real Estate Research Center calculates those measurements from seasonally adjusted data, with month-over-month percentage changes unless stated otherwise. Both figures cover a whole state or metro across all home types, rather than one building.
A statewide average and a building median are different measures, so read the state average as background. The days a Montebello home needs come from its own closings, counted only to the executed contract.
What forms does a Texas condo buyer receive?
Texas uses a Condominium Resale Certificate for condo sales, and the Texas Real Estate Commission says the condominium association prepares and signs it.
The contract is a separate state form too. The Texas Real Estate Commission publishes a Residential Condominium Contract (Resale) for the resale of a condominium unit.
The Texas Real Estate Commission's list of promulgated forms states that real estate license holders are required to use them. Agents on both sides of a Montebello sale therefore start from the same state documents.
This form is used in connection with the sale of a condominium and is prepared and signed by the condominium association.
What does the paperwork add after a Montebello contract is signed?
At Montebello, the certificate comes from the building's own association, so its timing sits outside the seller's control. Ask the association how long it takes, and request it at the outset.
A lender financing the purchase also runs its own review of the association, which a house sale does not carry. Both steps fall between the executed contract and funding.
Have the budget, the reserve position, the assessment history and the master policy declarations page ready as well. A buyer's agent will ask about the monthly cost, and those documents answer it.
Questions & answers
Montebello questions, answered
Which Texas contract form does a Montebello condo sale use?
A Montebello resale runs on the Texas Real Estate Commission's Residential Condominium Contract (Resale). The Commission says the form contains unique provisions relating solely to condominium transactions. It also says the form is not for use where the seller owns fee simple title to the land beneath the unit. That exclusion is the scope line to check before anyone fills in a blank.
Confirm with the title company or an attorney how a particular unit's title reads before the contract is drafted. The answer decides which form applies. Agents on both sides then work from the same one, and the buyer reads provisions written for condominium sales.
What happens if a Texas contract form is used wrongly or filled in badly?
The Texas Real Estate Commission warns that mistakes in the use of a form may result in financial loss or a contract which is unenforceable. That warning sits on its list of promulgated contract forms and addenda. Have a license holder or an attorney prepare and check the paperwork on any Montebello sale.
The Commission's own advice to anyone obtaining the forms for possible use in a real estate transaction is to contact a real estate license holder or an attorney for assistance. At Montebello, the condominium contract and the association's certificate arrive in the same file, so a mismatch between them is worth catching early. Ask your agent which form version the contract uses. Ask the association which certificate form it completed, and on what date.
How long did higher-priced Houston homes take to sell?
The Texas Real Estate Research Center's 2017 data put Houston's higher price cohorts close to DFW's pace. In the Texas Real Estate Research Center's words, Houston came in at nearly 46 and 62 days for the 95th and 99th percentiles, respectively. Those figures come from a December 2018 article on the Texas luxury market. Read them as history rather than as a current reading.
Montebello's own median, 38 days as of October 2026, comes from a far smaller set of sales. Percentile figures describe the top slice of a metro market, while the building median describes 4 closings in one tower. Compare a Montebello listing with the closed sales in its own stack, and treat the 2017 Houston numbers as context.
How close to the asking price do Houston condos sell?
The Texas Real Estate Research Center found single-family homes and condos each had a median closing-to-list ratio of 97 percent in the overall market in 2017. The Texas Real Estate Research Center reported that Houston had the lowest ratio that year, at 96 percent, and DFW the highest, at 98 percent. At Montebello, closings ran at 96.0 percent of final list price as of October 2026.
The Montebello ratio is measured against the final list price, so a seller who reduced along the way gave up more than the percentage shows. Ask what a comparable home first listed at, along with what it sold for. The 2017 figures cover the market at large, while the building figure rests on 4 closings.
Were more Houston homes coming on the market in late 2024?
Yes, according to the Texas Real Estate Research Center's monthly report covering October 2024. Among the Big Four metros, the Texas Real Estate Research Center reported Houston's new listings up 10.3 percent month over month, to 14,627. The same Texas Real Estate Research Center report put San Antonio's rise at 8.6 percent, to 4,447. Both figures come from seasonally adjusted data.
A metro rise in listings is background for a single tower. Montebello carried 6.0 months of inventory as of October 2026, and one new listing in a 98-home building can shift that ratio on its own. Read competition at Montebello through the homes in your own stack that are offered or recently sold, rather than through a Houston count.
Who can handle the condo forms on a Montebello sale or purchase?
Paige Martin of Real Broker, LLC has 18 closings at Montebello, most recently June 2026, in a 98-unit building. Paige specializes in condo purchases and purchases in an association-governed building. Ask any agent you interview how many contracts inside the tower they have carried from signing to funding.
Paige and the Houston Properties Team have sold over 300 condo units throughout Houston as part of $2 billion in Houston residential real estate sales. Send the unit number and ask for the association's certificate, budget and master policy page to be read before the offer goes in or the listing goes live.
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