Selling Your Home in Richmond?

Market data

Richmond home values and market activity

HAR 2025 neighborhood facts

Source: HAR.com · HAR.com · HAR.com · HAR.com · HAR.com · 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 Richmond buyers will ask, and what to have ready

1. Brazos River stages and levees

   Richmond sits on the Brazos River, and the river gauge there sets the flood picture: NWS flood stage is 45 feet, homes in Richmond begin to flood at 50 feet, and at 53 feet FM 359 becomes impassable between US 90A and the Pecan Grove levee. Recent crests include 55.19 feet in Harvey (Sept. 1, 2017), 54.74 feet (June 2, 2016) and 45.92 feet (May 12, 2024). Some neighborhoods sit behind levee improvement districts, others do not, and risk differs by street and elevation.

   • Compare the address with the county's Brazos River inundation maps (43 to 55 feet at the Richmond gauge).
   • Inside city limits, floodplain work needs a city permit with 1.0 foot of freeboard.
   • Ask for the elevation certificate and flood claims history, and price flood insurance either way.

   What buyers will do: Before you offer, check FEMA's map, the county inundation maps and the levee district map for the exact address.

   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 · Fort Bend County Drainage District maps · Brazos River at Richmond gauge · NWS flood categories and crests (RMOT2)

2. City or MUD, and which school district

   Inside city limits, the City of Richmond adopted $0.62 per $100 for 2026. Outside them, a MUD usually takes its place, with adopted 2025 rates such as Pecan Grove MUD $0.625, Fort Bend MUD 215 (Veranda) $0.73, MUD 134E (a Harvest Green district) $0.85 and MUD 121 (River Park West) $1.005. Everyone pays Fort Bend County ($0.407, 2026) and the drainage district ($0.01), plus Lamar CISD ($1.139, 2026) or Fort Bend ISD ($0.9969, 2026); levee districts add their own tax where they apply. School districts exempt $140,000 of a homestead's value. The seller's bill is not yours, since a sale can change the assessed value and the seller's exemptions end.

   • Many MUDs bill separately through their own collector (Pecan Grove MUD uses Tax Tech, Inc.).
   • File the homestead exemption with FBCAD online; the district lists April 30 as the deadline.

   What buyers will do: Pull the FBCAD record to list every unit (city or MUD, school district, any LID), then check each adopted rate.

   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: Fort Bend Central Appraisal District · FBCAD timeline · Fort Bend County tax rates by unit · Texas Comptroller: homestead exemptions · City of Richmond utility service area

3. A fast-growing school district

   Most Richmond addresses are in Lamar CISD, which told Community Impact in April 2026 that enrollment is still growing by 1,600 to 1,900 students a year. The district caps full campuses and sends new students to a neighboring school, rezones when new schools open, and uses parent attendance boundary committees. Some Richmond-address neighborhoods, such as Aliana, are in Fort Bend ISD instead.

   • Lamar CISD's School Finder shows the zoned campuses for an address.
   • Enrollment needs proof of residency such as a closing disclosure or utility bill.

   What buyers will do: Run the address through the right district's lookup for the school year you will enroll, and confirm with the district.

   What to have ready: Point buyers to the school district’s own school finder; never state a school assignment yourself.

   Sources: Lamar CISD new student enrollment and School Finder · Lamar CISD attendance boundaries · Fort Bend ISD 2026-27 School Locator

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.