2727 Kirby Real Estate

Three things, and none of them is on a listing. What the building's own architects say it is, as opposed to what aggregators repeat. What the monthly assessment covers and which documents state it. And how rarely homes here change hands, which shapes both what you can negotiate and what you can later resell.

A tour tells you about a home. The building is a separate question, and at a full-service tower it is the larger one, because the association's decisions will cost you more over ten years than most of the finishes will. Start with what the architects published about the building, which is specific and checkable, and notice which figures they state and which they do not. Then ask for the association's documents, which are the only source for the fee, the reserves and the assessment history. Then look at how many homes have sold here in the last few years, because a thin resale market is a real constraint on timing. All three are set out in the buyer's guide to the building.

The median sale price is $1,512,500 as of August 2026, at an average of $566 per square foot, from 4 closings across the trailing twelve months. The median home took 70 days to go under contract and closings ran at 89.7 percent of final list price.

Those are building-level figures, computed over sales in a stated window and refreshed automatically rather than retyped. They describe a slow market that negotiates. What they cannot do is value a home, because with this few sales a year the median is the middle of a handful of transactions rather than a market-wide midpoint, and one closing entering or leaving the window moves several of the figures at once. Use them to understand the negotiating environment, then look at the closed sales most like the specific home. The full set, with the caveats each figure deserves, is on the market update.

Start from what the home is worth against the small set of closed sales most like it, then price it correctly on the first day. With a 70-day median and closings at 89.7 percent of final list, an optimistic opening price costs months and then the reduction anyway.

Two things carry most of the outcome here. The first is the comparable set, which will be small: expect three or four closed sales, adjusted for floor, exposure, plan and finish, some of them more than a year old. The second is what your home actually includes, and at this building that specifically means its recorded parking allocation, which has been formally reallocated by amendment and may not match what an older listing says. Get both right before the home goes on the market rather than after. The place to start is a valuation of the specific home.

More than most buyers realise, and all of it is public. The recorded declaration and its amendments describe every home in the building, its boundaries and its allocated interests. The county clerk's index is free to search by file number. The architects' own published description of the building is still online in two versions.

This matters more here than at most buildings, because the published record for this one contradicts itself. Four different unit counts are in print, the most repeated of them is footnoted to a page that says something else, and the year the building was finished is given as 2008, 2009 and 2010 by three different sources. None of that is settled by searching harder. It is settled by reading the recorded instruments, which anyone can pull, and by noticing which figures the architects themselves state and which they decline to state. The whole disagreement is laid out, with file numbers, on the page about how many homes the building has.

Ask how many homes the agent has closed inside this building and when the most recent one was. In a tower where fewer than ten homes sell in a year, experience in Houston condominiums generally is not the same thing as experience in this building specifically.

The second question is better than the first, and almost nobody asks it: where did that answer come from? An agent who can name the document behind each answer, the declaration for the parking, the resale certificate for the fee, the recorded amendments for what changed and when, is an agent who has done the work at this address rather than repeating what a portal says. The test costs nothing to apply and it separates the field quickly, because the published record for this building is unreliable enough that anyone working from it alone will get something wrong. Our own answer, and the record behind it, is on the page about choosing an agent here.