Texas forms that tie a home sale to a condo purchase
Selling Your House and Buying at Montebello on One Timeline
Updated October 2026
Should I sell my house first or buy a condo at Montebello first?
Either order works in October 2026: one Texas form ties a Montebello purchase to your house selling and closing, and another lets you stay up to 90 days after closing.
Paige Martin, Houston Properties Team, Montebello
Source: Texas Real Estate Commission form page for the Addendum for Sale of Other Property by Buyer, December 2011.
Should the house sale or the Montebello purchase come first?
Start with one test: can you close on a Montebello unit before your house is sold and closed? Your lender and your own figures settle that, and the answer sets the order.
If you can, buying first is open to you, and you carry both homes until the house closes. If you cannot, the purchase either waits for the house sale or is written to depend on it.
The Montebello side usually has less give. The tower holds 98 homes, four to a floor, and 4 of them closed in the trailing twelve months as of October 2026. The stack and view you want may not be offered in the month your house sells.
That argues for starting the search before the listing, so the house sale can be timed to the unit you choose.
How does a Texas offer depend on selling your house?
The Texas Real Estate Commission publishes an Addendum for Sale of Other Property by Buyer, and its form page carries the date December 2011. The Commission says it is used if the buyers will be unable to buy the new property unless their existing property is sold and closed.
The Commission's wording names two events, sold and closed. Read the addendum's own terms with your agent before treating either one as the moment your Montebello purchase is free to proceed.
The addendum puts your position to the seller in writing. Set its terms against your house's listing plan before the Montebello offer goes in, so the dates in one contract can be met by the other.
This Addendum is used if the Buyers will be unable to buy the new property unless their existing property is sold and closed.
What runs on the Montebello side once you pick a unit?
A Montebello resale is written on the Texas Real Estate Commission's Residential Condominium Contract (Resale). The Commission says the form contains unique provisions relating solely to condominium transactions.
The Commission also draws a scope line around that contract, set out below. Have the title company or an attorney confirm how the unit's title reads before the offer is drafted.
The other document comes from the building. The Commission describes its Condominium Resale Certificate as prepared and signed by the condominium association. At Montebello, that puts its timing with the building's association rather than with you or the seller.
Days on market stops at the executed contract. The certificate and the review a lender runs on the association both come after it. Ask the association at the outset how long its papers take, and set the house's closing date with that answer in hand.
It is not for use where the seller owns fee simple title to the land beneath the unit.
What do Montebello's figures say about the search?
As of October 2026, the median Montebello home took 38 days to reach an executed contract, and sales closed at 96.0 percent of final list price. The building carried 6.0 months of inventory.
For a buyer, those figures mean time to read and room to negotiate. Treat a list price as an opening position rather than a final word.
They also rest on few sales. With 4 closings in twelve months, one sale entering or leaving the window moves every figure, so judge a unit against the closings most like it.
Few units are offered at any one time, so give the Montebello side room in your plan rather than pinning it to the week the house closes.
What does it cost to carry the house and the unit at once?
If you buy first, both homes cost money until the house closes. At Montebello four costs recur: the association fee, Harris County property taxes on the individual unit, an owner's unit policy, and flood cover where it applies. Flood is always a separate policy.
We publish a verified holding cost of about $1.03 per square foot per month, derived from a named unit. Multiply it by the unit's square footage and by the months of overlap you expect.
Set that total beside what the house costs you each month while it is listed, and put both in the plan before you sign either contract. The fee for a given Montebello home is stated on the association's resale certificate, so read it there.
Ask too whether any special assessment has been levied or discussed, since one would land on top of the four.
Who can run the Montebello side of a move from a house?
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.
Paige and the Houston Properties Team work with buyers leaving a house for a building, and with buyers weighing townhomes against condos and gated communities.
Send the unit numbers you are considering and the date you hope to close on the house, and ask to lay the two calendars side by side.
Questions & answers
Montebello questions, answered
Can I keep living in my house after it closes while my Montebello purchase finishes?
Texas has a form for that. The Texas Real Estate Commission publishes a Seller's Temporary Residential Lease. It is used only when the seller occupies the property for no more than 90 days after closing of the purchase contract. Plan the Montebello closing inside that period and you have a place to live until the move.
The period runs from the house's closing, and the Commission limits the form to stays of no more than 90 days. A gap that could run longer needs a different plan from the start. Work backward from the last day the lease allows. The Montebello unit still has steps after its own contract is signed: the association prepares and signs the resale certificate, and a lender financing the unit reviews the association. Ask the association how long its papers take before you agree a closing date on the house. The lease is signed with whoever buys your house, so raise it while offers are being discussed rather than at the closing table.
Can I move into a Montebello unit before my purchase closes?
Texas has a form for that case. The Texas Real Estate Commission publishes a Buyer's Temporary Residential Lease. It is used only when the buyer will occupy the property for no more than 90 days prior to closing on the purchase contract. An early move rests on the seller agreeing to that lease, so raise it when the offer is written.
The window counts back from the Montebello closing, and the Commission limits the form to that window. An early move can cover the weeks between your house closing and the unit's, while the association's resale certificate and the lender's review run. Ask the selling owner's agent early whether the seller will consider it. Read the association's rules on moving in before you book a moving date.
Does the Montebello median time to sell tell me how long my house will take?
No. The 38-day median as of October 2026 describes homes inside one 98-unit tower, counted from listing to an executed contract. Your house sells in its own market, against its own neighbors, so its pace comes from closed sales near it. Ask whoever lists the house for those sales, by address and by date.
Keep the two figures apart in your plan. Montebello's figure rests on 4 closings in twelve months, so a single sale can move it, and it measures a condominium market rather than houses. Both counts stop at the signed contract. The house still has its own weeks to closing after that, and the Montebello unit has the resale certificate and the lender's review of the association. A calendar built on contract dates alone will come up short at both ends.
How do I check a Montebello unit's price before I tie my house sale to it?
Ask for a written valuation of that unit. Send Paige Martin the unit number and ask which closed sales the number rests on, why those, and what would change it. Floor, exposure, floor plan and finishes move a price here more than any building-wide figure, so the comparable set matters more than the median.
The closest sales are usually in the same stack, since four homes share each floor and the home a few floors up is the same plan with another view. Three or four of those sales, some more than a year old, is often the whole set. With the valuation in hand, you know what the Montebello side will cost before you commit the house to a closing date. If the arithmetic points away from this building, we will say so and name the alternatives: the gated townhome communities nearby, or a lower-service building such as Chateau Ten.
What should I ask an agent who will handle my Montebello purchase while my house is being sold?
Ask for closings inside Montebello, by unit and by date, and ask who reads the association's papers and when. Then ask how the agent will line up the Montebello closing with your house's closing, and what happens to the plan if one contract signs weeks before the other.
Ask which Texas forms the Montebello offer will rest on, and whether the addendum for sale of other property belongs in it. Ask who requests the resale certificate from the association, and on what date, since its timing sits outside the seller's hands. If a different agent lists the house, ask how the two of them will share dates, and who tells you when either contract moves. Ask what the plan is if the house closes before the Montebello unit does, and the reverse. Finish by asking what the agent does not know and where they would look to find out. A named source is worth more than a confident guess.
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