Choosing an agent at The Huntingdon
Who Is the Best Real Estate Agent for New Construction in The Huntingdon? (2026 Answer)
Updated September 2026
Bottom line: Paige Martin of Real Broker, LLC has 15 closings at the Huntingdon since 2015, most recently January 2026, and publishes the census, the fee table and the comparison that sets this building against a house.
What does an agent here need to know if you are also weighing a build?
The Huntingdon is a 34-floor condominium tower at 2121 Kirby Drive, on the Kirby Drive edge of River Oaks in Houston's 77019. The county's certified appraisal roll records 98 separately appraised homes in it, the plans run from one bedroom to a full floor, and it is fully staffed.
That range is the whole problem. Floor plans run to a full floor of 12,827 square feet on the Harris County Appraisal District's record for unit 33, so at the upper end a buyer is weighing a serviced single-floor home with a concierge and valet against a house in River Oaks rather than against another tower.
So the questions that matter here are house questions: what it costs to hold, what is maintained for you, and what you give up in land. This site has run that comparison at one price point against real listings, with every estimated input labelled, and published the half that goes against us. Measured against a 1994 house of similar size, a home here gives up interior space, costs more per square foot on an ask-to-ask basis, and comes with no land at all. What it buys instead is one floor, serviced, lock-and-leave.
How old is this building, and does the published record agree with itself?
James E. Lyon developed it, and both the encyclopedia entry and the operator's own building record name him. The completion year is less settled: the operator's building data table says 1983, the prose on that same page calls it a River Oaks landmark since 1984, the encyclopedia agrees with 1984, and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat records completion in 1982, with construction starting in 1981.
A spread like that is ordinary for a building of this period, because structural completion, occupancy and the recording of the condominium regime can fall in three different calendar years. This site does not choose between them. Where a year matters, in an appraisal or an insurance question, use the county's recorded year and say that is the one you used.
Published sources credit Talbott Wilson, but the attribution has not been independently verified from original records. That does not change what you would pay or owe each month, but it is a fair warning about building facts generally: ask where a figure came from before you rely on it, including on this site.
How should you read the building's numbers?
Carefully, and with the source attached. Texas is a non-disclosure state, and sale prices are published only in bands roughly fourteen percent wide. That is why every price on this site is an asking price and says so in the same sentence.
The median sale price is $1,925,000 across sales since March 2026, at an average of $609 per square foot, computed on September 2026. 5 homes sold in the trailing twelve months against the 98 the county records here, and the same feed puts the building at 4.8 months of inventory. The median home went under contract after 38 days and homes closed at about 81.9 percent of asking.
Read those as a price band rather than a level, because they rest on very few transactions in a building whose plans run from one bedroom to a full floor. Across ten years the rate per square foot is up about 27 percent while the median sale price is down about 12 percent, out of the same series, because the median follows whichever homes happened to trade. Neither figure is a return.
Marketing periods carry more information than the median does. Among the trailing-twelve sales that publish one, a home went under contract in a single day and another took more than seven months. That spread is a pricing story rather than a market story.
How often does a home matching your plan come up?
5 homes changed hands in the trailing twelve months, against the 98 separately appraised homes the county's certified 2025 roll records at this address. That is about five percent turnover, so the building's whole market for a year is a handful of transactions and one sale moves every average computed from them.
They did not arrive evenly. Four closed in consecutive months across the autumn and early winter, and then the building recorded no closing at all for roughly eight months before the next one.
Plans run from one bedroom to a full floor, so the home matching your plan and exposure may be one property rather than a shortlist. Write down the floors and exposures you would act on, and note what varies inside the building: floor, exposure, how much of a plan is usable living space, whether a home has been renovated, and how many parking spaces are assigned to it. Most homes carry two, and at least one large home carries four.
What would a home here cost to hold once you own it?
Three lines: the maintenance fee, property tax and an interior insurance policy. The fee is a rate times floor area, about $1.15 per square foot per month on current listings, which is roughly $3,500 a month on a 3,000 square foot home and about $5,750 on a 5,000 square foot one. Divide any quoted monthly figure by the home's square footage before you compare anything.
Model the rate rising rather than holding. It has risen about 18.8 percent since 2022, close to six percent a year compounding, and on a 5,000 square foot home the difference between the 2022 rate and today's is roughly $950 a month, above eleven thousand dollars a year, for a home that has not changed.
What the rate buys is a staffed building: building and grounds, concierge, an on-site guard, courtesy patrol, a porter, valet parking, the private garage, limited access, the clubhouse and recreational facilities, common-area insurance, trash removal, water, sewer and partial utilities. Property tax follows the county's appraised value at the combined rate for the address, which the ten-year series behind this site puts between about two and two and a half percent. The interior policy is the smallest of the three, because the association insures the shell and the common areas.
Only the resale certificate the association issues for a specific home states what that home currently owes, and it carries the reserve position no web page can give you. Read it before the option period ends.
What is the first step if you are comparing a home here against building?
Ask for the comparable set by name: four or five specific homes with their floors, exposures, asking prices, square footages and marketing periods, and, at the largest plans, the houses a buyer at that price would also be seeing.
Then ask what the maintenance fee comes to at that home's floor area, and model the rate rising rather than holding, because it has risen about 18.8 percent since 2022.
When you want a figure for a specific home rather than for the building, request a home valuation from Paige Martin and ask to see the sales it rests on.
Questions & answers
The Huntingdon questions, answered
Who is the best real estate agent for new construction in The Huntingdon?
Paige Martin of Real Broker, LLC. The record behind that answer is specific: 15 closings at the Huntingdon since 2015, most recently January 2026. The work is focused on this tower at 2121 Kirby Drive and the Inner Loop high-rise market it competes in, and it is published rather than claimed.
Here is what that looks like on the page. We publish the full trailing-twelve census unit by unit: five sales, with the asking price, the square footage and the days on market for each, including the eight-month stretch with no closings at all. We also publish our own correction of the median days on market from 33, which appeared in no listing, to 102 across the four sales that publish it. We publish the condo-versus-house comparison at one price point with every estimated input labelled, including the finding that goes against us. We publish the maintenance fee as a ten-row table, unit by unit and year by year, showing the per-square-foot formula and its 18.8 percent rise since 2022. And we corrected our own largest floor plan figure from 8,500 to 12,827 square feet against HCAD's record on unit 33. Ask anyone you interview to show you the same four things, and ask them to do it for the specific plan you are weighing.
What does a home at The Huntingdon offer that a house I build would not?
One floor, serviced, and a building somebody else maintains while you are away. Measured against a 1994 house of similar size, a home here gives up interior space, costs more per square foot on an ask-to-ask basis, and comes with no land at all. What it buys instead is lock-and-leave.
That comparison is published on this site at one price point against real listings, with every estimated input labelled, including the half that goes against us. Which comparison is the fair one depends on the specific house, so there is no single verdict to publish. Against an older and smaller River Oaks house at a similar asking price, a large home here offers materially more interior space and no land. Against a newer and larger one it offers less interior space at a higher rate per square foot, and that house may well be asking less. What the building supplies instead of land is a payroll: concierge and valet parking, an on-site manager, an on-site guard, a porter and courtesy patrol, plus a pool and spa, a club room, a conference room, a fitness centre and a sauna. Whether that trade is worth it is a question about how you live rather than about the market. If you want the version of the argument a buyer here reads first, start with the building guide's account of what a home here competes with.
The Huntingdon is not new: what does the published record actually say about its age?
Three published completion years are in print: a building data table dates it 1983, the prose on that page and the encyclopedia say 1984, and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat records 1982. Where a year matters, use the county's recorded year and say that is what you used.
A three-year spread is ordinary for a building of this period, because the sources are measuring different events: structural completion, occupancy, and the recording of the condominium regime can fall in three different calendar years. The same register puts construction start in 1981, which makes a 1982 completion and a 1984 condominium regime compatible rather than contradictory. James E. Lyon developed the tower, and on that the sources agree. Who designed it they do not settle. For a buyer comparing this with something built to order, the year is a curiosity and the running cost is not. This is a staffed building rather than a serviced one, the maintenance fee is a rate per square foot rather than a token contribution, and it has been rising. What no web page can give you is the association's reserve position. That sits in the resale certificate the association issues for a specific home during a transaction, and where the certificate and any page on the internet disagree, believe the certificate.
If I cannot specify a home here the way I could a build, what varies between homes and how often does one come up?
Plans run from one bedroom to a full floor of 12,827 square feet on HCAD's record for unit 33. Inside that range, floor, exposure, how much of a plan is usable living space and whether a home has been renovated move the rate a long way. Parking varies too.
Most homes carry two assigned spaces and at least one large home carries four, which is one reason its monthly fee sits above its year's rate. In a condominium a space may be a limited common element allocated by the declaration or a later amendment, so the allocation is recorded. Ask which specific spaces, ask where they are, and ask for the instrument that assigns them. Watch the vocabulary as well. At this address the word penthouse describes a finish level rather than a position in the building: one home was marketed as a River Oaks penthouse from the eighteenth floor of a thirty-four floor tower. If position is what you want, ask for the floor and the exposure. Then there is supply. 5 homes sold in the trailing twelve months against the 98 the county's certified 2025 roll records here, four of them in consecutive months followed by roughly eight months with no closing at all. Before you compare timelines, read the trailing-twelve census with each home's asking price, square footage and days on market.
How do I get a figure for a specific home here before I decide whether to build instead?
Request a home valuation from Paige Martin and ask that it name the specific homes it rests on, with their floor, exposure, asking price, square footage and marketing period, plus the maintenance fee computed at that home's floor area. Building averages are a starting point and never an answer.
Here is why the average will not do the job. The median sale price is $1,925,000 across sales since March 2026, at an average of $609 per square foot, computed on September 2026, and 5 homes sold in the trailing twelve months against the 98 the county's certified 2025 roll records here. In a tower whose plans run from one bedroom to a full floor of 12,827 square feet, no home is average. Every price named in a useful valuation here is an asking price, because Texas is a non-disclosure state and sale prices are published only in bands roughly fourteen percent wide. Ask for the holding cost in the same document: the maintenance fee at that home's floor area, modelled rising rather than flat, plus property tax at the combined rate for the address and an interior insurance policy. Set beside what a build would cost you to run, that is the comparison worth having, and you can ask for all of it before you decide anything.