Selling Your Home in Balmoral?

Market data

Balmoral home values and market activity

HAR 2025 neighborhood facts

Source: HAR.com (HAR 2025 Facts, based on appraisal district records). Market and appraised values are not sale prices. HAR’s neighborhood boundary may not match the subdivision exactly.

Seller preparation

What Balmoral buyers will ask, and what to have ready

1. MUD 400 or MUD 423

   Balmoral is unincorporated Harris County with no city levy on HAR's tax table. 2025 adopted rates per $100 (Harris County Tax Office): Humble ISD 1.1052, Harris County 0.38096, Hospital District 0.18761, Flood Control District 0.04966, Port of Houston 0.0059, Department of Education 0.0048, ESD 1 0.08515 and ESD 10 0.10, plus MUD 400 (0.55) or MUD 423 (1.35). On a $340,000 taxable value the MUD gap alone is about $2,700 a year.

   • MUD 400 says it lies entirely in Houston's ETJ and Humble ISD.
   • The $140,000 school homestead exemption applies after you file with HCAD; the seller's bill is not your bill.

   What buyers will do: Check the HCAD account for the exact MUD before you compare two Balmoral homes on price.

   What to have ready: Your latest tax statement with its list of taxing units and your exemptions. Buyers know their own bill will be figured on their own value and exemptions, so a clear breakdown helps.

   Sources: Harris Central Appraisal District · Harris County Tax Office rates · HC MUD 400: About

2. Fees due at closing

   The Property Owners Association of Balmoral is managed by Associa PMG Houston. Its recorded certificate (signed Feb. 2024) lists for resale buyers: a $950 community enhancement fee, an operating fund capitalization fee of 50% of the annual assessment ($412 then), an administrative fee of up to one-third of the assessment, an Adopt A School assessment of one-quarter of it, a $220 transfer fee and a $65 account setup fee. The resale certificate costs $340.

   • Who pays which fee is negotiable in the contract; the certificate only says what is charged.
   • Resale documents are ordered through Community Archives from PMG's site.

   What buyers will do: Ask for the resale certificate before the option period ends and total the closing charges into your offer.

   What to have ready: The management company’s contact, an early order for the resale certificate for every association on the lot, and approval letters for exterior changes.

   Sources: Balmoral management certificate · Associa PMG Houston

3. Flood research for a newer community

   Balmoral sits north of Beltway 8 near Woodland Hills Drive in the west Lake Houston area. No HCFCD page names its watershed, and a newer build year does not by itself tell you a lot's flood risk; the lagoon and lakes are amenities, not a statement about drainage.

   • Ask the seller for the survey, any elevation certificate and the flood insurance history.
   • If the home is under ten years old, ask for the builder's warranty papers and whether coverage transfers.

   What buyers will do: Look up the address on the FEMA map and the Harris County flood tool and get a flood insurance quote before the option period ends.

   What to have ready: Your seller’s disclosure flood answers, any elevation certificate, your flood insurance declarations page and records of any claim, repair or mitigation work.

   Sources: FEMA Flood Map Service Center · HCFCD Flood Education Mapping Tool · TDI: check a property's claim history

Insurance and disclosures: buyers will price homeowners and flood insurance before they commit. Have your current declarations pages, any elevation certificate and any flood-claim history ready; Texas sellers also answer flooding questions on the seller’s disclosure notice (Texas Property Code §5.008). See our Houston flood map guide.