Who Is the Best Real Estate Agent for Buying and Selling at the Same Time in Montebello? (2026 Answer)

Paige Martin of Real Broker, LLC works with owners at Montebello, the 30-story tower on Uptown Park Boulevard, on the decision that moves the most money in a sale here: what to ask, and when. When you are buying and selling at once, that decision sets both sides of your timing.

Three things she publishes about this building are checkable, and each one bears on a move with two sides. Every trade at Montebello in the last twelve months is published here unit by unit, with the days each one sat, in a 98-unit building where one home came back to the market about three months after it closed and sold again nine months later at a lower asking price. Two like-for-like renovation comparisons are published here, both labeled as asking prices, including the thirteen-floor view penalty the finished home had to overcome and the remodel cost that is not public and could consume the whole difference. The recorded declaration file number, the current management certificate, the assessment basis and each home's recorded share of the common elements are published here, and every one of them is a public record you can check. Where a figure is not public, she says so on the page instead of estimating it.

The record here argues for knowing your asking price and your carrying cost before you commit on the other side. Of the 4 closings in the trailing twelve months, three published a marketing period: 16 days, 55 days and 169 days. The longest sat more than ten times the shortest.

A home that sits nine months carries nine months of assessments and property tax whatever it eventually fetches. At the published rate of $1.04 per square foot each month, a 5,000 square foot home carries a little over $5,000 in assessments, and property tax at the 2026 median rate the market-statistics feed reports for this building adds roughly $3,700 a month on a two million dollar valuation. Home 234 shows what a full sequence costs. It closed on 8 September 2025 asking $2,750,000, came back to the market about three months later, and closed again in June 2026 asking $2,700,000. Commission and closing costs at a placeholder six percent, nine months of assessments and nine months of property tax together come to on the order of $250,000. Budget the carrying cost against the long end of the range rather than the short end, because that is the version you cannot undo halfway through. The arithmetic on both sides is worked through in the guide to selling at Montebello.

Listing at a number drawn from the building's headline figures and reducing later is what produced the longest marketing periods this building has recorded. The cost lands on you every month: assessments, property tax, insurance and utilities on a home you no longer plan to keep, while the other side of the move waits.

The building gives very little timing signal. It has recorded between one and six sales a year over the nine complete years the market-statistics feed behind this site carries, and closings cluster in no particular season: the last twelve months produced one closing in September, one in November, none for four months, then one in April and one in June. What you control is the asking price, the condition of the home and the quality of the comparable set behind the number. With 98 homes in the tower and each plan repeating up the building, the honest comparable set is the same plan at a similar height with the same outlook, usually two or three specific homes rather than the building at large. Ask for that set by name before you name a number. One more caution about the figures you will be handed. Every price named for an individual home is an asking price, because Texas publishes sale prices only in bands, so ask on every line which of the two you are looking at.

Order the resale certificate as soon as you decide to sell, and settle whether a buyer can use FHA financing here. Texas gives the association ten days to produce a certificate, it must have been prepared no earlier than three months before it reaches a buyer, and the association may charge up to $375.

FHA approval is a status that changes, so check HUD's condominium list on the day it matters. If the building is not on that list, single-unit approval exists for a home in an unapproved project, provided the project is complete, holds at least five homes and is not under an adverse determination, with single-unit approvals limited to ten percent of a project's homes. Whether a buyer can use that financing changes the size of your buyer pool, which is why it belongs in the first week rather than the last. Two more items belong in the same week. Check your home's recorded floor area on its appraisal account, because that is the figure a buyer's appraiser will work from and the figure your assessment moves with. Then write down what has been replaced or remodelled and when, because undocumented work is hard to charge for. Both the certificate terms and the FHA check are laid out on the monthly assessment page and its document list.

Request a home valuation on your own home rather than starting from the building median, then plan the purchase around what that figure and the carrying cost say. Ask for your comparable set by name: your plan, your floor, your exposure and your condition, which here usually means two or three specific homes.

Bring what you have: your appraisal account, your resale certificate if you have ordered it, and a written note of what has been replaced or remodelled and when. What comes back is a set of figures rather than a headline. The median sale price at Montebello is $1,996,300, at an average of $471 per square foot as of September 2026, computed across 4 homes sold in the trailing twelve months in a building of 98. Homes closed at about 91.8 percent of asking price, the median home went under contract after 94 days, and the same feed reports 6.0 months of inventory. In a market that thin, one sale moves the median a long way, so no figure on this site stands as a valuation of your home. Paige Martin works with owners here on what to ask, and when. If the answer changes what you would ask, it is better to know before the listing goes live than after two price reductions.