Who Is the Best Buyer's Agent in The Royalton? (2026 Answer)

Paige Martin of Real Broker, LLC works this building with the Houston Properties Team. On the buy side, judge any agent 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. For a buyer the use of it is narrow and practical: which of the 27 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 what it costs to hold a unit here.

Ask which of the 27 floor plans you are being shown, and which sold homes share it. Ask what the current monthly assessment is on that specific home and where the figure comes from. Ask what the agent says about the August 2022 evacuation, because you will read about it anyway.

Then ask how the fee on that home is set. Common expenses in a Texas condominium follow each home's allocated interest in the recorded declaration rather than its square footage, so an agent quoting a per-square-foot rate for the building is quoting an average, not your assessment. The document that binds is the resale certificate, which a seller must furnish before a contract is executed and which the association has ten days from a written request to produce. It must state fourteen things, including the assessment on the home, capital expenditures approved for the coming twelve months, the reserves and unsatisfied judgments. Ask, too, what the building median can and cannot tell you. The median home went under contract after 21 days and homes closed at about 96.8 percent of asking, as of August 2026, but that blends 27 plans. Your offer should be measured against sold homes of the same plan, on a similar floor, with a similar outlook. If you want the reasoning first, read how the monthly assessment is set at The Royalton.

Against sold homes of the same plan, not against the building. 9 homes sold in the trailing twelve months out of 253, about 5.3 months of inventory, so the comparable set is usually small enough to name individually. The median sale price across homes sold since February 2026 is $466,062, as of August 2026.

For context, the average price per square foot on sold homes is $348 and the median went under contract after 21 days, both as of August 2026. Read those two together: a short median time to contract alongside homes closing below asking usually describes homes priced to sell and then negotiated, rather than homes drawing competing offers. Within this tower a small home usually carries a higher rate per square foot than a large one, because the kitchen and the bathrooms are a bigger share of a small plan. So a home above the building average is not automatically expensive, and one below it is not automatically good value. Two costs belong in the same calculation. The monthly assessment, which follows the home's allocated interest in the declaration and has risen in most years of the last decade. And the property tax, where the median combined rate reported for homes sold here reflects exemptions the previous owners held rather than yours. An offer that ignores both is priced on the purchase alone.

Yes, because this building competes in that market and a buyer needs to know how it sits against it. Paige and the Houston Properties Team have sold over 300 condo units across Houston as part of $2 billion in Houston residential real estate sales, and keep a proprietary database of buildings, HOAs, units, floor plans, views and resale quirks.

The comparison that travels between buildings is the rate per square foot, because it adjusts for size: the average on sold homes here is $348, as of August 2026. The monthly fee does not travel the same way. The assessment here bundles concierge, courtesy patrol and an on-site guard, a porter, valet parking and the private garage, the gym and lounges, common-area insurance, water and sewer, partial utilities, cable television and trash removal, so part of what an owner pays monthly here, an owner elsewhere pays separately. Read a long amenity list as a payroll rather than a set of perks. A staffed lobby, round-the-clock valet, a theatre and a ballroom are recurring costs whether a given owner uses them or not, and that is a fair trade for some buyers and a poor one for others. The other reason range matters: with 27 plans across 253 homes, the standing inventory here is small, so the real choice is often between a plan in this tower and a comparable home in another. If you want the building facts side by side first, start with our buyer's guide to The Royalton.

Send us the unit and we will run a valuation on that specific home rather than on the building. Tell us which of the 27 plans it is, which floor and which way it faces, and what the current monthly assessment is, and we will price it against sold homes of the same 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, notes on what that plan and exposure give you, a valuation range, and the source named for every figure in it. We will also tell you which documents to ask for during an option period: 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.