Resale certificates, association documents and who pays
Resale Certificates and Association Fees When You Buy at The Huntingdon
Updated October 2026
Who pays for the resale certificate when buying a condo at The Huntingdon, and what does it cost?
In September 2026 the Texas condominium contract puts a Huntingdon resale certificate at the seller's expense, though the Texas State Law Library warns a buyer may pay a fee.
Paige Martin, Houston Properties Team, The Huntingdon
Source: Texas State Law Library, guide to property owners' association records and access, October 2026.
Who pays for the resale certificate, and what may the association charge?
On a sale at The Huntingdon, the condominium association prepares and signs the resale certificate, using the Texas Real Estate Commission's condominium form.
Who pays for it is set by the contract. The promulgated Residential Condominium Contract (Resale) has the certificate prepared at the seller's expense, no more than three months before it is delivered to the buyer.
The association's own charge has a ceiling. Under Section 82.157(a) of the Texas Property Code, it may charge a reasonable and necessary fee, not to exceed $375, to furnish the certificate.
Even so, a buyer can face a charge. The Texas State Law Library says Texas law requires most associations to give a requesting buyer the governing documents and a resale certificate. It adds that the buyer may have to pay a fee.
Subdivisions with mandatory association membership run on Chapter 207 instead. In its legal column, the Texas Real Estate Research Center flags paragraph 3, the clause that allocates the cost of obtaining the information from a property owners' association. The Texas Real Estate Research Center reported that a Chapter 207 amendment caps those fees at $375 for assembly and delivery, and requires them to be reasonable and necessary.
This form is used in connection with the sale of a condominium and is prepared and signed by the condominium association.
What does the certificate tell a buyer about a home at The Huntingdon?
The Huntingdon's declaration was recorded before 1 January 1994. Section 82.002(c) of the Texas Property Code still carries the resale certificate section to a regime of that age, which is why a buyer here receives one.
For a home in this tower, the certificate is the one document that states what that home currently owes the association. The Texas State Law Library describes a resale certificate as summarizing the association's financial status and listing any unpaid debts owed by the property owner.
The reserve position, any special assessment, the insurance deductibles and the account balances for this association all come out of a certificate package delivered during a transaction. The Commission's form attaches an operating budget, an insurance summary and a balance sheet.
Ask the seller to make the request in writing as soon as you are under contract, and read the certificate before the option period ends. Where it disagrees with a listing or a web page, work from the certificate.
What are the association fees at The Huntingdon, and how have they moved?
The monthly maintenance fee here is a rate times floor area, about $1.15 per square foot on current listings. That comes to roughly $3,450 a month on a 3,000 square foot home and about $5,750 on a 5,000 square foot one.
Listings between 2021 and 2025 put the rate at $0.92 in 2021 and $1.14 in 2025. From its 2022 base of $0.96, the rise is about 18.8 percent, close to six percent a year compounding.
Divide any quoted monthly figure by the home's floor area before comparing two homes. A large bill and a small one can carry exactly the same rate.
The fee pays for a staffed building: concierge, valet parking, an on-site manager, an on-site guard, a porter and courtesy patrol. It also covers building and grounds, common-area insurance, trash removal, water, sewer and partial utilities. Everything inside your own front door is yours to insure and maintain.
A fee printed on a listing two or three years old understates what the same home owes today. Model the rate rising rather than holding.
Where are this association's transfer charges written down?
The Huntingdon's association records a management certificate in the county's real property records. That document states the amount and description of every fee charged to a seller or a buyer on a transfer.
The certificate recorded for this building gives the association's address as the building itself. It names the association's attorney and an online document portal, and no third-party managing agent.
Anyone can pull it from the county clerk without being in a transaction, so you can see the transfer charges before you make an offer. Read that list beside the resale certificate, which also states the fees payable on a transfer of ownership.
Paige Martin specializes in condo purchases and purchases in an association-governed building. When you want a figure for a specific home, request a home valuation and ask that it compute the maintenance fee at that home's floor area.
Questions & answers
The Huntingdon questions, answered
Do I ask the association for the resale certificate myself when I buy at The Huntingdon?
Usually the seller's side asks. The Texas Real Estate Research Center's legal column says that in a property owners' association, the seller or the seller's agent usually requests the documents. The condominium statute also starts with the seller. The association has until the 10th day after a selling owner's written request to furnish the certificate to that owner or the owner's agent.
In practice, the seller puts the request in writing as soon as the contract is signed. The ten days run from the association's receipt of that written request, not from a phone call or the contract's effective date. If you want the certificate sooner, ask through your own agent for the date the seller sent the request and for the association's confirmation that it arrived. Keep a copy of both. The contract gives you seven days from receiving the certificate to terminate, so the delivery date matters.
What if the resale certificate goes out of date before my closing at The Huntingdon?
For a condominium, the certificate must have been prepared no earlier than three months before it reaches the purchaser, so a long wait can mean ordering a fresh one. The Texas Real Estate Research Center describes a separate update route for property owners' associations under Chapter 207. There the request comes within 180 days of the original, delivery follows within seven business days, and the update fee is capped at $75.
The two sets of terms come from different parts of the Texas Property Code. Section 82.157 sets the condominium rules, and Chapter 207 sets the rules for subdivisions with mandatory association membership. So do not assume the Chapter 207 update price carries over to a tower. Ask the association in writing what it charges for a new certificate and how quickly it can issue one. Then time the request so the copy you receive falls inside the three-month window when it is delivered.
Is there a penalty if an association is slow to deliver resale information?
For property owners' associations under Chapter 207, yes. The Texas Real Estate Research Center reported that the judgment penalty for failing to deliver the information on time increased from $500 to $5,000. The Texas Real Estate Research Center's legal column puts the delivery deadline for subdivision information at 10 business days from the request.
A condominium sale at The Huntingdon runs on the condominium statute instead. Where the association does not furnish the certificate, or any information required in it, within its 10-day window, the selling owner may give the purchaser a sworn affidavit in its place. The affidavit states that the owner asked the association about its financial condition and did not receive a timely certificate. The buyer and seller may then agree in writing to waive the certificate. A selling owner or the owner's agent is not liable to the purchaser for erroneous information the association puts in a certificate.
What changed on the Texas condominium resale certificate form in 2024?
The Texas Real Estate Commission amended the Condominium Resale Certificate so the language in Paragraphs K and L conforms with Section 82.157 of the Texas Property Code. The form in use, TREC No. 32-5, took effect on 25 November 2024. Item L records whether the board has received notice from a governmental authority about health or building code violations affecting the unit, its limited common elements or any other part of the condominium.
For a buyer here, the compliance lines deserve a slow read. A code notice touching the home or the wider building points to repair work somebody will have to fund. The board's knowledge of alterations that breach the governing documents tells you what you might inherit and have to correct. The Commission states each promulgated form's ID and effective date on its own forms page. Check that the certificate you receive is on the current version before you rely on it.
Is the subdivision resale certificate (TREC 37-5) the form for a Huntingdon unit?
The Texas Real Estate Commission's 37-5 form complies with Chapter 207 of the Texas Property Code. It reports on a property owners' association where a property is subject to mandatory membership in it. The Huntingdon is a condominium, and the Commission's 32-5 form is the one used in connection with the sale of a condominium, prepared and signed by the condominium association.
The 37-5 form covers assessments, judgments, right of first refusal on resale and other information about the association. Its condominium counterpart carries the statements Section 82.157 requires: transfer restraints, assessments and unpaid amounts, approved capital spending, reserves, judgments and pending suits, insurance, the managing agent, the budget and balance sheet, and transfer fees. If paperwork for a home here arrives on the subdivision form, ask the seller for the condominium version before you rely on any figure in it.
If the resale certificate leaves out a debt, am I liable for it after I buy?
Section 82.157 protects a purchaser, lender or title insurer who relies on a resale certificate from any debt or claim it does not disclose. The association also may not deny the validity of any statement in it. Where a properly executed certificate understates the seller's delinquent sums, the purchaser is not liable for additional delinquencies unpaid on the date it was prepared.
That protection has edges. It leaves untouched the association's right to recover debts that arise after the certificate was prepared, and its lien for future assessments. So keep your copy, and check the lines on unpaid common expenses, special assessments and other amounts payable. Look at the preparation date as well. The maintenance fee at this building has climbed year after year, so a certificate prepared close to closing is the one worth relying on.