Who Is the Best Listing Agent 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. Three things she publishes about this building answer the question better than a ranking does.

Each of the three is checkable. 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.

Ask for the record of this building rather than a market summary. Paige Martin publishes every trade at Montebello over the last twelve months, unit by unit, with the days each one sat, so you can see the sequence a single home went through instead of homes listed one at a time.

Of the closings in the trailing twelve months, three published a marketing period, and they ran 16 days, 55 days and 169 days in the same building in the same year. A summary that reports one median hides that spread. Ask which figures are asking prices and which are sale prices, on every line. Texas publishes closed prices only in bands and keeps a price given voluntarily to an appraisal district confidential, so what a home asked is the only figure that can be stated exactly for a named home. Ask what happens where a figure is not public: the answer worth hearing is that the page says so rather than estimating it. Then ask for your own comparable set by name, the same plan at a similar height with the same outlook, which in a tower of 98 homes where each plan repeats up the building is usually two or three specific homes. You can read the unit-by-unit sales history for Montebello before your first conversation.

Ask where the count comes from, then ask to see the rows behind it. A count of six was published for this window earlier and corrected, and the correction sits on the page with the rows behind it. 4 homes closed in the trailing twelve months, across three separate homes, because one of them sold twice.

The building's own paperwork is the other check. 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 is a public record you can look up yourself. So is your home's appraisal account, which carries the floor area a buyer's appraiser will work from and the figure a listing should match. Then test any claim against the pace of the tower. Montebello holds 98 homes, and over the nine complete years the market-statistics feed behind this site carries, it has recorded between one and six sales a year. A count that cannot show its rows is a claim rather than a record. Where a figure is not public, the honest treatment is to say so on the page instead of putting an estimate in its place.

An agent should give you a carrying cost you can compare, rather than a fee. The published rate at Montebello is $1.04 per square foot each month, and one named home in the building was reported paying a monthly amount that divides out at $1.03 per square foot, which checks the published rate.

Your own home's figure comes from its resale certificate, which the association issues on request. Texas gives the association ten days after a written request, the certificate must have been prepared no earlier than three months before it reaches a buyer, and the association may charge up to $375. Order it as soon as you decide to sell rather than when a buyer asks. A rate per square foot is also the figure a buyer will use across buildings. On the same published measure, Montebello is $1.04 against $1.15 at The Huntingdon on Kirby Drive, about ten percent lower, and the two fees cover different things: cable television and an activities manager here, a courtesy patrol and partial utilities there. Carrying cost matters more the longer a home sits, and this building produced a 169 day marketing period inside the last twelve months. For the full breakdown, read the monthly assessment worked out per square foot from one named home.

Start with a home valuation on your own home rather than the building median. Ask for the comparable set by name: your plan, your floor, your exposure and your condition, which in this tower usually means two or three specific homes. Paige Martin works with owners here on what to ask, and when.

Request a valuation and 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, because undocumented work is hard to charge for. 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. 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. Budget the carrying cost against the long end of the range rather than the short end. Three closings in the last twelve months published marketing periods, and they ran 16, 55 and 169 days. A home that sits nine months carries nine months of assessments and property tax whatever it eventually fetches.