Montebello agent selection
Who Is the Best Real Estate Agent for Probate and Estate Sales in Montebello? (2026 Answer)
Updated September 2026
Bottom line: Paige Martin of Real Broker, LLC prices an estate sale at Montebello from the same record as any other sale here: every trade in the building unit by unit, the documents behind the assessment, and what the estate carries each month it waits.
What does choosing an agent for an estate sale at Montebello decide?
The decision that moves the most money in a sale here is what to ask, and when. A sale arranged for an estate is priced from the same record as any other sale in this building.
Montebello is a 30-story tower on Uptown Park Boulevard with 98 homes and four homes to each floor, so a home's outlook is one quarter of the compass and its plan repeats on twenty-odd other floors. The comparable set for the home is the same plan at a similar height with the same outlook: two or three specific homes rather than 98.
Over the nine complete years the market-statistics feed behind this site carries, the building has recorded between one and six sales a year, so the comparable sales it gives are often years apart. Paige Martin of Real Broker, LLC works with owners here on that decision, and publishes the record it rests on.
What does the estate pay for every month the sale runs?
The published assessment rate is $1.04 per square foot each month, so a 5,000 square foot home carries a little over $5,000. Property tax at the 2026 median rate the market-statistics feed behind this site reports for this building adds roughly $3,700 a month on a two million dollar valuation. Insurance and utilities follow, and commission and closing costs are negotiated rather than fixed.
Home 234 is the sequence itself, on the twenty-third floor. It closed on 8 September 2025 asking $2,750,000, returned to the market about three months later, and closed again in June 2026 asking $2,700,000, which is $50,000 lower. Whether the second seller lost money is not published, because Texas releases closed prices only as ranges and both closings fall inside the same range.
What the sequence cost can be stated whatever the prices were: about $162,000 in commission and closing costs at a placeholder six percent, about $44,900 in nine months of assessments, and about $45,400 in nine months of property tax at the median rate the feed reports for this building. That is on the order of $250,000.
Three of the closings in the last twelve months published a marketing period, and they ran 16 days, 55 days and 169 days in the same building in the same year. Plan around the range, and budget the carrying cost for the long end of it.
Which prices here are exact, and which are bands?
Texas law makes a sale price given voluntarily to an appraisal district confidential, and the local listing service releases closed prices only as ranges. The only figure that can be stated exactly for a named home is what that home asked, and every price named for an individual home on this site is labeled that way. The median prices this site quotes are measured over the homes sold since March 2026.
The medians are a different kind of figure, computed by the market-statistics feed behind this site across the homes that sold. The median sale price is $1,996,300, at an average of $471 per square foot as of September 2026. 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.
Read that median as a description of the few homes that sold. It rests on 4 closings across three separate homes in a building of 98, so the mix decides the number: a year with two penthouses in it and a year with two of the smallest plans in it produce medians hundreds of thousands of dollars apart with nothing having changed about the building.
Ask whoever prices the home to say which of the two they are showing you, on every line.
Which documents does a listing at Montebello rest on?
Four, and three of them take time. The resale certificate from the association, which states this home's own assessment and every fee payable when ownership transfers. The recorded declaration and its amendments, which hold the assessment formula and the use restrictions, including anything governing leasing. The home's own appraisal account, which carries the floor area a buyer's appraiser will work from. And a written record of what has been replaced or remodelled and when.
Order the resale certificate as soon as you decide to sell rather than when a buyer asks. 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. The certificate is also where figures this site publishes for no building live, including reserves and any special assessment.
Settle the financing question early as well. 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 the buyer pool.
Which figures can you check yourself?
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. So is the home's appraisal account, which carries the floor area a buyer's appraiser will work from and the figure the assessment moves with.
Two like-for-like renovation comparisons are published here as well, 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. Height was priced steeply here from the start: the developer's launch price sheet asked 66 percent more for the same 3,500 square foot plan on the twenty-eighth floor than on the second.
Ask any agent to show the rows behind a count. A count of six for this window was published and corrected, and the correction sits on the page with the rows behind it. Where a figure is not public, saying so on the page is the treatment used here, in place of an estimate.
Then ask for a home valuation built on the home's own plan, floor, exposure and condition rather than on the building's median.
Questions & answers
Montebello questions, answered
Who is the best real estate agent for probate and estate sales in Montebello?
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 are checkable, and each bears on a sale run for an estate.
Each one is a published record rather than a ranking. 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 estate is carrying this Montebello home until it closes. What does each month cost?
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. Property tax at the 2026 median rate the market-statistics feed behind this site reports for this building adds roughly $3,700 a month on a two million dollar valuation. Insurance and utilities follow.
Commission and closing costs are negotiated rather than fixed, and they are the largest single line in the sale. Home 234 shows what a long sequence costs: it closed on 8 September 2025 asking $2,750,000, returned to the market about three months later, and closed again in June 2026 asking $2,700,000. About $162,000 in commission and closing costs at a placeholder six percent, about $44,900 in nine months of assessments, and about $45,400 in nine months of property tax at the median rate the market-statistics feed behind this site reports for this building come to on the order of $250,000. Three closings in the last twelve months published a marketing period, and they ran 16 days, 55 days and 169 days. Budget against the long end of that range rather than the short end, because that is the version you cannot undo halfway through. The home's own monthly amount comes from its resale certificate, which the association issues on request. For the full breakdown, read the monthly assessment worked out per square foot from one named home.
Can the estate charge for a remodel the owner paid for if we have no paperwork for it?
The market at Montebello pays a large premium for finished condition, and undocumented work is hard to charge for. Write down what has been replaced or remodelled and when, from whatever records the home holds, because that written record is what lets a listing charge for work already done.
Two like-for-like comparisons sit in the record, both asking prices. Home 132, finished, on the thirteenth floor, asked $497 per square foot and sold in November 2024. Home 262, taken back to the studs, on the twenty-sixth floor, asked $451 per square foot and sold in May 2025. Same 5,528 square foot plan, 10.2 percent apart, and the finished home did that from thirteen floors lower in a building where the developer asked 66 percent more for the same 3,500 square foot plan on the twenty-eighth floor than on the second in 2001. Home 244, 4,885 square feet on the twenty-fourth floor, asked $409 per square foot in December 2022, was gutted and remodelled, asked $634 in July 2024, and sold in five days. What that work cost has never been published, and this site does not estimate it. Check the home's recorded floor area on its appraisal account before a listing quotes one, because that is the figure a buyer's appraiser will work from.
What record can we show to support the asking price on a Montebello home?
Every trade at Montebello in the last twelve months is published unit by unit, with the days each one sat, so the number rests on the building's own record rather than a summary. 4 homes closed in that window, across three separate homes, because one of them sold twice.
Three of the closings in that window published a marketing period, and they ran 16 days, 55 days and 169 days in the same building in the same year. A summary reporting one median hides that spread. A count is worth what the rows behind it are worth: a count of six was published for this window earlier and corrected, and the correction sits on the page with the rows behind it. 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. Then ask for the comparable set by name, the same plan at a similar height with the same outlook, which in a tower of 98 homes usually means two or three specific homes. Read the unit-by-unit sales history for Montebello before the first conversation.
How do we get a figure for a Montebello home that is being sold for an estate?
Request a home valuation on the home itself rather than starting from the building median. Ask for the comparable set by name: the plan, the floor, the exposure and the condition, which in this tower usually means two or three specific homes. Paige Martin works with owners here on what to ask, and when.
Bring what the home has: its appraisal account, its resale certificate if one has been ordered, 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. 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 the 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.