Maintenance Fees at The Huntingdon: The Rate, the Formula, and the Document Behind Both

How much is the maintenance fee at The Huntingdon?

About $1.15 per square foot per month on current listings, which is the rate the operator's own building record for this address publishes. On a 3,000 square foot home that is roughly $3,450 a month; on a 5,000 square foot home it is roughly $5,750. There is no single monthly figure for this building, because the fee is a rate rather than a charge.

That is the first thing to fix when reading listings here. A monthly fee quoted without the home's floor area tells you almost nothing, and two homes with very different bills can be paying exactly the same rate. Divide before you compare.

It also means the fee scales with the thing that makes the home desirable. The largest plans in this building reach a full floor, and a full floor at this rate carries a monthly obligation larger than the entire mortgage payment on a median Houston house. That is the arithmetic a buyer at the upper end has to do first rather than a criticism of the building.

Why can this page say the fee is set on floor area?

Two independent records say so, and they were compiled by people who were not talking to each other. The first is the listings. Ten homes listed here between 2021 and 2025 publish both a monthly fee and a floor area, and dividing one by the other gives a rate for each. Homes listed in the same year land on the same rate almost to the cent: three listed in 2022 all come out at $0.96, two listed in 2023 both come out at $1.08, and two listed in 2025 both come out at $1.14. Fees set any other way would not line up like that.

The second record is the county's, and it is the stronger of the two. Texas requires a condominium declaration of this building's vintage to state each home's fractional interest in the whole regime, and makes every owner liable for common expenses in that proportion. Those interests are published, home by home, on the appraisal roll. Across all 98 homes they run at very close to a constant share per square foot, and the table below spans the building from an 800 square foot home on the mezzanine to the full floor on the thirty-third, and the last column barely moves.

One home departs from the line, and it departs in both records at once. The largest home in the listing table carries four reserved parking spaces where most homes here carry two, and its fee rate sits about four percent above the pair listed alongside it in the same year. Its recorded interest in the building sits about four percent above the line as well. Two records compiled for different purposes both say the same home carries more than its floor area alone would give it, which is about as good as this kind of evidence gets.

One link is still missing and this page will not paper over it. The appraisal roll shows the interests and the statute makes owners liable in proportion to them, but the clause that says how the association actually assesses is in the recorded declaration, whose image this page has not read. So the fee behaving as a rate per square foot is an inference from two records rather than a quotation from the document that governs it.

What share of the building does a home at The Huntingdon own?

A fraction stated in the recorded declaration and published against every account on the county's appraisal roll. It runs from about a fifth of one percent for the smallest home in the building to just over three percent for the full floor on the thirty-third, and the ninety-eight shares sum to a whisker under the whole.

This is the number that matters for anything the association does by ownership rather than by head count. Common expenses fall on owners in proportion to it under Texas law. It is also, in a building whose declaration allocates it this way, the reason the monthly fee behaves the way it does.

It is worth knowing your own home's figure before you need it, and it costs nothing to look up. Two homes that look alike on a floor plan can carry different shares, and the share travels with the home rather than with the owner.

Has the maintenance fee at The Huntingdon gone up?

Sharply. The rate on listed homes went from $0.92 per square foot per month in 2021 and $0.96 in 2022 to $1.14 in 2025, a rise of about 18.8 percent in three years from the 2022 base, or close to six percent a year compounding. Current listings sit at about $1.15, which agrees with where the series was heading.

A second and independent source points the same way. The market-statistics feed behind this site computes a median monthly fee across the homes that sold in each year, and its series is in the table below. It is a different measurement (it follows which homes sold rather than which were listed, so it swings with the size mix), but the two agree where they overlap, and both describe a building repricing its labour and its contracts rather than one holding a fee steady.

Underwrite the rate rising, not the current bill holding. 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. Over a ten-year hold that assumption is worth more than most of the negotiating points a buyer will spend energy on.

What does the maintenance fee at The Huntingdon cover?

The operator's building record for this address lists building and grounds, concierge, an on-site guard, courtesy patrol, a porter, valet parking, a private garage, limited access, the clubhouse, a lounge, recreational facilities, the gym, an outdoor kitchen, a pet run, storage outside the unit, common-area insurance, trash removal, water and sewer, and partial utilities.

Read that as a payroll before you read it as a list of features. Door staff, a guard, a porter, valet and a concierge are people, and people reprice every year whether or not anything about the building changes. Two pools, a club room, a conference room, a fitness centre and a sauna are common area somebody insures, cleans, heats and eventually replaces. A building that runs a front desk around the clock cannot have a small fee, and one that does should prompt a question rather than relief.

What it does not cover is everything inside your own front door. Common-area insurance is not a policy on your interior finishes, and a buyer needs their own. The private guest suites carry a charge of their own in addition to the fee. The two hours of engineering services a month that the building includes are a genuine convenience and not a maintenance budget.

Which document states a home's exact fee, and what else does it tell you?

Two documents matter and they do different jobs. The recorded declaration of condominium is public: Texas law requires each county clerk to maintain condominium records in which declarations are recorded, so anyone can pull it, and it is where this building's allocation is actually stated. The association issues the resale certificate for one specific home during a transaction rather than publishing it, and it is the only document that states what that home currently owes.

Ask for both, and read the certificate rather than skimming it. It is where the matters this page deliberately does not publish live, and it is the version of these facts that a seller and an association are accountable for. Where the certificate disagrees with any page on the internet, including this one, believe the certificate.

Which law applies here is worth knowing, because most Houston condominium pages get it wrong. Texas has two condominium statutes, and the newer one applies only to regimes whose declaration was recorded on or after 1 January 1994. This building predates that by a decade, so it is governed by the older chapter, under which the declaration must state each apartment's fractional or percentage interest in the entire regime. The newer chapter's resale certificate provisions do reach back to older buildings, which is why a buyer here is entitled to one at all.

The declaration is worth pulling even when a transaction is not in prospect, because it is the document that decides arguments. How the interests are allocated, what is a limited common element and to which home it is allocated, and what the association may and may not do are all in it, and every amendment to it is a separate recorded instrument filed later.

Is The Huntingdon approved for FHA financing?

This page does not know, and neither does any page that tells you it does. FHA lending in a condominium turns on whether the project holds FHA approval, that status is granted and withdrawn over time, and the only reliable answer is the one you read off the federal list on the day it matters. What this page can do is explain the two wrong answers that circulate, because both cost buyers real time.

The first wrong answer is that a project without FHA approval cannot be bought with an FHA loan at all. That is not so. Single-unit approval exists precisely for units in unapproved projects: the lender underwrites the individual home rather than the whole project. Federal rules cap the FHA-insured homes in such a project at ten percent of its units, and a project must have at least five dwelling units to qualify at all. A building of this size clears that floor comfortably.

The second wrong answer is that project approval can be assumed. It cannot. Single-unit approval is a narrower, slower and less certain path with owner-occupancy and project-financial conditions attached, and a buyer who plans around project approval that does not exist loses weeks at the worst point in a transaction. Treat it as a lender question, ask it before you write an offer, and get the answer in writing from someone who has looked at the list rather than from a page like this one.

What can this page not tell you?

The association's reserve position, whether a special assessment has been levied or is contemplated, the insurance deductibles the building carries, or the association's account balances. Their only source is a resale certificate package delivered in an agency capacity during a transaction, and this site does not publish from that source at all, on any building.

It cannot give you a current fee for a specific home either. Every row in the first table above is what a listing stated at the time it was listed, transcribed by the operator on the date named in the caption. Those rows are not links a reader can open, and a home listed in 2021 is not paying its 2021 fee today.

It cannot tell you what any individual amendment changed. Two independent county records agree on where the chain currently stands: the clerk's index names an instrument recorded on 4 October 2024 as the Sixteenth Amendment to the Fourth Amended and Restated Declaration, and every one of this building's appraisal accounts carries a legal description ending in the sixteenth amendment to the fourth. But a further condominium instrument was recorded on 17 September 2025 whose contents this page has not read, and amendments supersede one another without the index saying what each one did. That is a reading job through the chain in order.

It also cannot tell you the fee attaching to any home's recorded share. The appraisal roll does publish each home's undivided interest in the common elements (the largest home in the building carries a shade over three percent, a small one carries around half a percent), and that share is the statutory basis on which common expenses fall. What no public record publishes is the amount the association is currently levying against it.

And it cannot tell you whether the association is self-managed. The recorded management certificate for this building names no third-party managing agent: it gives the association's address as the building itself and names only its attorney and an online document portal. That is a different statement from asserting the association manages itself, and this page makes only the statement the record supports.