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

Updated August 2026

Bottom line: Paige Martin of Real Broker, LLC has closed 43 sales at The Royalton since 2004, most recently July 2026, and works both sides of a move inside this building: a comparable set drawn from your own plan, and the documents you furnish and demand.

What makes selling one home here and buying another a different problem?

The Royalton is a 33-story, 253-unit condominium tower at 3333 Allen Parkway, and it holds 27 one, two and three bedroom floor plans. That range is what makes it a different problem from the small towers we cover elsewhere. In a building of seventy or ninety homes the decision is whether the address suits you. Here the decision moves inward, to which plan, which floor and which exposure — and if you are selling one home and buying another, you are on both sides of the same question at once.

The price point widens it further. It brings a River Oaks address within reach of a first high-rise purchase, a smaller second home, or a unit bought to rent out, and each of those uses asks different questions of the same building.

So the question set is specific, and it is the same set twice over. Which plans give usable space and which only read larger on paper. Which floors and exposures see Downtown, which see the Galleria, and which look into another building. What the maintenance fee covers, and why two homes of the same size in this building can owe different amounts. What it costs to hold a unit here, and how one has held its value. What you argue for on your listing is what you test on the home you are buying.

What is our record inside The Royalton?

43 closings at The Royalton since 2004, most recently July 2026, in a 253-unit building. Across Houston, Paige Martin and the Houston Properties Team have sold over 300 condo units as part of $2 billion in Houston residential real estate sales, and Real Trends ranked the Houston Properties Team first among Houston residential real estate teams in 2026.

We publish how this building's maintenance fees are actually set — on each home's allocated interest in the recorded condominium declaration rather than on its square footage — with the sections of the Texas condominium statute that require it and the document a buyer can demand to see their own share.

Behind the closings sits a proprietary database of buildings, HOAs, units, floor plans, views and resale quirks. On a move that runs both ways, that is where two comparable sets come from: not the building median, but named homes of the same plan, on similar floors, with similar outlooks.

What do the current figures mean when you are on both sides of a move?

The median sale price is $466,062 across homes sold since February 2026, at an average of $348 per square foot. 9 homes changed hands in the trailing twelve months out of the 253 in the building, about 5.3 months of inventory. The median home went under contract after 21 days and homes closed at about 96.8 percent of asking. All of it is as of August 2026.

Read that as a price band rather than a trend line. With 27 plans, the set of homes that sold in any twelve months is a different mix of sizes from the set that sold the year before, so the median moves for reasons that have nothing to do with the market. The per-square-foot figure is the more portable one, because it adjusts for size, and within this tower a small home usually carries a higher rate than a large one.

Two or three homes for sale is a full inventory here. So on the purchase side the practical question is rarely whether to buy in this building, but whether the plan and the exposure you want is on the market now, or whether it is worth waiting for. On the sale side, the set your home competes against is small enough to name individually.

Which documents move in both directions?

As the seller, Texas law requires you to furnish the declaration, the bylaws, any association rules and a current resale certificate before a contract is executed, and the association has ten days from a written request to produce that certificate. As the buyer of the next home, you are asking a seller for exactly the same set.

Three documents sit outside the certificate and are asked for rather than furnished: the board minutes and engineering reports covering the 2022 repair, the insurance history, and the current reserve study. Ask for them on the home you are buying, and expect a buyer to ask for them on the home you are selling. Starting both lists early keeps them off the critical path when an option period is running.

How do we handle the fee and the 2022 evacuation?

The same way on both sides of your move. Common expenses here follow each home's allocated interest in the recorded declaration rather than its square footage, so a per-square-foot rate quoted for the building describes an average and binds nothing. The resale certificate is the document that binds. The median monthly fee on homes sold in this building has risen in most years of the last decade, and more steadily than the price series has moved, so underwrite the fee on your next home as a number that keeps moving.

August 2022 is on the record and we publish it. An underground water line serving the fire sprinkler system broke on 11 August 2022, water flooded the lower level, a section of ground slab heaved, and the 33-story tower was evacuated. Engineers inspected the following day and reported that they did not identify conditions representing an immediate concern to the structural integrity of the primary vertical and lateral systems, while noting that further conditions could be exposed once repairs were opened up. The city allowed some residents back on 4 October 2022.

A television report said the building no longer had an active certificate of occupancy; a Houston Public Works spokesperson later said that was not the case. A buyer will find the first and may never find the second, which is why we publish both. Ask any agent you interview here what they say about it, and whether they can point you to the association documents that carry the repair record.

What will we tell you we do not have?

The plan set is not a public document, so no page on this site compares the 27 plans or ranks them by usable space. That comparison sits in working knowledge of the building, and it is the thing most worth asking an agent for directly when you are judging your own plan against the one you want next.

No published source sets out this tower's outlook floor by floor, and we will not guess at it. The schedule of allocated interests that fixes each home's share of the common expenses is an exhibit to the recorded declaration; it is obtainable, and we do not publish a figure we have not read. This site also publishes no flood zone for the building, because it has not been able to retrieve one from the federal map service.

If you are selling here and buying next, send us the unit you own, the plan and exposure you are looking for, and the questions you have not been able to answer from published sources. We will tell you which document answers each one, which we would have to obtain, and how each home looks against sold homes of its own plan.

Questions & answers

The Royalton questions, answered

Who is the best real estate agent for buying and selling at the same time in The Royalton?

Paige Martin of Real Broker, LLC works this building with the Houston Properties Team, on the sale and the purchase together. Judge any agent doing both here on closings inside the tower, on what they publish about the maintenance fees and the August 2022 evacuation, and on whether they can compare the 27 floor plans. Here is our record.

The record: 43 closings at The Royalton since 2004, most recently July 2026, in a 253-unit building. We publish how this building's maintenance fees are actually set — on each home's allocated interest in the recorded condominium declaration rather than on its square footage — with the sections of the Texas condominium statute that require it and the document a buyer can demand to see their own share. Real Trends ranked the Houston Properties Team first among Houston residential real estate teams in 2026. Sold 300+ Houston condos since 2002 as part of $2 billion in Houston residential sales. Behind that sits a proprietary database of buildings, HOAs, units, floor plans, views and resale quirks. When you are selling one home and buying another, that database is where both comparable sets come from: named homes of the same plan, on similar floors, with similar outlooks, rather than the building median.

How do I line up selling my condo at The Royalton with buying my next home?

There is no calendar answer here, only an inventory one. 9 homes sold in the trailing twelve months out of 253, about 5.3 months of inventory, as of August 2026. Two or three homes for sale is a full inventory, so the sequence turns on whether a home of the plan you want is listed now.

On the sale side, the median home went under contract after 21 days and homes closed at about 96.8 percent of asking, as of August 2026. A short median time to contract alongside a ratio below asking usually describes homes priced to sell and then negotiated. That median also blends 27 plans, so a well-positioned home and an awkward one can sit at opposite ends of the range while the median sits between them. On the purchase side the constraint is standing inventory. With 27 plans across 253 homes, the pool for sale at any moment is small and drawn from many different layouts, so the question is whether the plan and exposure you want is on the market now or worth waiting for. Across ten years the median sale price at this building has moved within a band rather than climbing steadily, while the median rate per square foot has risen more consistently, and the sold set has ranged from single figures to more than twenty homes a year. For the decade behind both sides of your move, read the building's ten-year price and sales series.

What should I ask an agent who is handling both my sale and my purchase at The Royalton?

Ask which of the 27 floor plans you are selling and which you are buying, and which sold homes share each one. Ask what the monthly assessment is on both homes and where each figure comes from. Ask what they tell buyers who raise the August 2022 evacuation, because most of them will.

Two comparable sets, not one. With 9 homes sold in the trailing twelve months out of 253, spread across 27 plans, each set is usually small enough to name individually: sold homes of the same plan, on a similar floor, with a similar outlook. An agent who prices either side against the building median is describing the address rather than the home. Then the fee. Common expenses in a Texas condominium follow each home's allocated interest in the recorded declaration rather than its square footage, so a per-square-foot rate quoted for the building is an average and binds nothing. The resale certificate is the document that binds, on both homes. Then 2022. A buyer looking at your home will find the coverage, including a television report that the building no longer had an active certificate of occupancy and the later statement from a Houston Public Works spokesperson that this was not the case. Ask what your agent says to that. Last, ask what they will not claim: the plan set is not a public document, and no published source sets this tower out floor by floor.

Which documents do I have to furnish as a seller and demand as a buyer at The Royalton?

Both lists overlap. As a seller you must furnish the declaration, the bylaws, any association rules and a current resale certificate before a contract is executed, and the association has ten days from your written request to produce that certificate. As a buyer you demand the same documents on the home you are buying.

The certificate must state fourteen things, including the assessment on the home, capital expenditures approved for the coming twelve months, the reserves and any part designated for a named project, unsatisfied judgments and the nature of pending suits. Read it as the association's financial position rather than as an invoice. Three more documents sit outside it and are asked for rather than furnished: the board minutes and engineering reports covering the 2022 repair, the insurance history, and the current reserve study. Request them on the home you are buying, and expect a buyer to request them on the home you are selling. Start early on both. The association has ten days from a written request to produce a certificate, and an option period is a poor time to begin. Fees here follow each home's allocated interest in the recorded declaration rather than its square footage, which is why the schedule in the declaration matters more than any rate quoted for the building. If you want the statute and the mechanics first, read how the monthly assessment is set at The Royalton.

How do I find out what my current home would sell for and what I should offer on the next one?

Ask us for a valuation on each home rather than reading the building median. Tell us which of the 27 plans you own, which floor and which way it faces, the current monthly assessment, and the same three facts for the home you are considering. We price each against sold homes of its own plan.

For context, the median sale price across homes sold since February 2026 is $466,062, the average price per square foot on sold homes is $348, homes closed at about 96.8 percent of asking, and the median went under contract after 21 days, all as of August 2026. Those figures describe the band this address occupies. They do not price a home. What comes back is a comparable set of sold homes of the same plan for each side, notes on what those plans and exposures give you, a valuation range on the home you own and a supported number on the one you want, and the source named for every figure in it. We will also list the documents that move in both directions: the declaration, the bylaws, the association rules and a current resale certificate, plus the board minutes, the engineering reports and the insurance history covering the August 2022 repairs. What we will not do is guess. The plan set is not a public document and no published source sets this tower out floor by floor, so we say what we have read and name what we have not.