Greater Houston · Serving metros across Texas
Montes & Associates Realty is a Texas real estate brokerage helping families buy and sell homes across Greater Houston and metros statewide — first homes, move-ups, downsizes, land, and rental property. Derek Montes has sold more than 2,500 properties for banks and servicers and 300 more as an agent — and brings that pricing discipline, plus creative solutions when a deal needs them, to your side of the table.
Current listings
Active listings from Montes & Associates Realty, updated directly from the Houston MLS.
Why Montes
Before opening Montes & Associates Realty, Derek spent six years as an asset manager for a national mortgage servicer — the person on the bank's side of the table deciding what a property was worth, what it needed, and what it should sell for. Banks don't accept a guess and they don't wait.
That's an unusual apprenticeship for a residential agent, and it shows up in three places on your transaction.
Figures reflect a national portfolio managed as an REO asset manager, 2015–2021, and brokerage production since. Asset managers and servicers: see valuation & REO services.
How we help
Whether it's your first house, your fourth rental, or a portfolio assignment anywhere in Texas, you get the same broker and the same phone number.
A pricing conversation grounded in real comparable sales, a walkthrough of what's worth fixing before photos, and a marketing plan that puts your home in front of the buyers actually shopping your price band. You'll know where you stand every week.
Texas markets are big and uneven — flood history, school zoning, MUD taxes, and HOA rules can swing value block to block, and what is true in Katy is not true in Kyle. You get a straight read on what a house is worth before you write, and someone who has seen what deferred maintenance really costs.
Acreage and lot sales, rental underwriting, and buy-and-hold or flip analysis with the numbers run before you commit. Also commercial disposition and property management, including taking over properties with tenants already in place.
For servicers, asset managers, and funds: broker price opinions, full-cycle REO disposition, occupancy resolution, and preservation oversight across Texas. Homeowners facing hardship can also ask about short sale options.
Coverage area
Home base is Humble and Atascocita, with daily business throughout the Houston metro and out toward the coast. Beyond that, listings, valuations, and investment work are handled in metros across the state — and where a market needs local hands, they come from a vetted network rather than a name pulled off a list.
Houston metro footprint
Harris · Montgomery · Liberty · Chambers · Galveston · Fort Bend · Brazoria · Waller
About Derek Montes
Derek grew up in Friendswood and earned an accounting degree from the University of Houston–Clear Lake, which is how he came to real estate through the numbers side of it. He and his wife — a neonatologist caring for the area's most fragile newborns — are raising a son and a daughter.
Outside the office, the Montes family supports local philanthropies and stays involved in the community — including coaching youth soccer, which is its own education in patience and negotiation.
Professional memberships
Track record
Closed transactions from Montes & Associates Realty. The clearest answer to how a listing gets priced here is what those listings actually sold for.
Common questions
More than an online estimate will tell you. Automated values miss flood history, MUD tax rates, school zoning, condition, and what actually closed on your street in the last ninety days. A free home valuation from Montes & Associates Realty walks through the comparable sales an appraiser would use, so the number you list at is the number that survives underwriting.
Greater Houston is home base — Houston, The Heights, Montrose, Memorial, West University Place, Hunters Creek Village, Jersey Village, Humble, Atascocita, Kingwood, Spring, The Woodlands, Conroe, Tomball, Cypress, Katy, Richmond, Sugar Land, Missouri City, Pearland, Friendswood, Clear Lake, League City, Pasadena, Baytown and Galveston, across Harris, Montgomery, Liberty, Chambers, Galveston, Fort Bend, Brazoria and Waller counties. Listings, valuations, and investment work are also handled in Dallas–Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi, Beaumont–Port Arthur and Bryan–College Station.
Yes, and it is some of the most useful work there is. First-time buyers in Texas run into flood zones, MUD taxes, HOA rules, and new-construction contracts written by the builder's attorney. You get a straight read on what a house is worth before you write an offer, plus lender and inspector referrals if you need them.
A BPO is a licensed broker's written estimate of a property's value, built from comparable sales and a condition assessment — used by servicers, lenders, and funds where a full appraisal is not required. Montes & Associates Realty completes interior and exterior BPOs across Texas on Equator, Res.Net, Exceleras, Pyramid and client platforms, with documentation built to hold up on review.
Often, yes. Short sales, deed-in-lieu, and other loss-mitigation paths are familiar ground here, from six years spent on the servicer's side of those files. The earlier the conversation happens the more options exist, so it is worth a call even if you are only thinking about it.
Commission is negotiable and always set out in writing before any work begins — Texas requires a written agreement between a broker and the client. Sit down for a listing consultation or a buyer consultation and you will get the numbers in plain terms, with no obligation to sign anything that day.
Get in touch
Thinking about selling, just starting to look, or still deciding whether it's the right year — all of it is a fine reason to reach out. Every message gets a same-business-day reply.