Who Is the Best Real Estate Agent for Buying and Selling at the Same Time in Lofts on Post Oak? (2026 Answer)

An owner selling here and buying the next home wants an agent who can set out both prices, both sets of papers and both closing dates side by side. One agent to weigh is Claudette Callebs, of Real Broker, LLC. Claudette Callebs lives at Lofts on Post Oak and owns her home there. Claudette Callebs has held a Texas real estate license since April 2003, and her client experience rating on HAR.com, the Houston Association of Realtors' site, is 4.96 out of 5 from 252 completed surveys (September 2026).

She helps owners in the complex sell their homes, and she helps buyers weigh one home here against another, in the eight-story tower or in the four-story mid-rise. Most of that work happens on paper before a home is listed or toured: what the county's appraisal roll records for a unit, what the association charges when a home changes hands, and what the monthly assessment and the property tax bill add to the price. When you interview any agent for a sale and a purchase together, ask four questions. Which sales of homes near your square footage does the list price rest on? When will the resale certificate be requested, given the ten days the association has to produce it and the three months it stays current? Which closing comes first, and what happens to the other if one date moves? And what will the tax bill on each home look like once the seller's homestead exemption ends?

Early enough that it is ready when your buyer is, and late enough that it is still current. The association has ten days from a written request to produce it, and under Section 82.157 of the Texas Property Code it must be no more than three months old when the buyer receives it. The management certificate lists $75 to update one and $100 for a rush order.

The seller hands the buyer the declaration, the bylaws, the association rules and the resale certificate before a contract is signed, and the charge for the certificate is capped at $375. When your purchase depends on your sale, a certificate that arrives late can hold up the sale contract, and the next closing with it. The management certificate, signed on 27 February 2026, also lists a $250 transfer fee and a $175 statement of fact fee, and says its fees change from time to time, so the managing agent, Rise Association Management Group, has the current figures. The sale contract and the parties decide who pays each one. Each charge is set out in what the Lofts on Post Oak association charges when a home is sold.

You sit on both sides of the same association's paperwork. As seller, you hand your buyer the declaration, the bylaws, the rules and a resale certificate no more than three months old. As buyer, you receive the same set for the unit you are buying, with its own certificate stating its own assessment, reserves and fees. Each unit is priced against sales of homes near its own size.

The two units may sit in different parts of the complex. The county roll does not record whether a home is in the eight-story tower or the four-story mid-rise, so the listing, the floor plan or a visit settles that for each one, and each is compared with sales from its own part of the complex. Floor, outlook, distance from a pool or the parking, and kitchen and bathroom condition are adjusted for separately on each side. Size changes the ongoing cost as well. Each home's share of the common property on the county roll runs from 0.18 percent for the smallest to 0.72 percent for the largest, and the assessment for the unit you are buying comes from its resale certificate rather than from a listing page.

Not on the day of closing. The Harris County Appraisal District cancels the seller's exemption as of January 1 of the year after the sale. For a next home you occupy as a principal residence, you file for your own, and the appraisal district's filing window runs from January 1 to April 30. A home kept as a second residence does not qualify.

The appraisal district says a qualifying owner receives at least a $140,000 homestead exemption on school taxes, with further exemptions from other units. At Lofts on Post Oak, nine taxing units levy on every home, and their adopted 2025 rates add up to $2.26867 per $100 of taxable value. At the county's middle 2025 value of $274,853, the tax came to about $6,235 before any exemption. If your next home is also a unit here, the tax on it is that combined rate against its own value, less any exemption you qualify for. The full list of rates and the arithmetic are under property taxes at Lofts on Post Oak.

Yes. You can request a valuation of your unit at no charge before you set a budget for the next purchase. It starts with your living area on the county roll and the recent sales of homes closest to it, then adjusts for floor, view, condition and whether the home is in the tower or the mid-rise.

Bring your move date and the price range you have in mind for the next home to the conversation, so the valuation and the pace of sales can be read against both. The median home that sold took 60 days to go under contract as of October 2026, and homes sold for about 96.3 percent of list price, a complex-wide figure that can follow reductions. The county's appraised value is a tax figure. For 2025 the certified values here ran from $198,275 to $602,171, with $274,853 in the middle, and those can sit some distance from a sale price, so treat it as one input. If the next home is also a unit here, you can request a valuation of that one too, so both numbers are on the table.