Real estate agents in Cypress

Anyone acting as a real estate broker or sales agent in Texas needs a TREC license. A sales agent must work for a licensed broker, who is responsible for the agent's work. TREC's License Holder Lookup shows whether a license is active, any discipline, the holder's education and, for sales agents, the sponsoring broker.

Agents owe their clients a fiduciary duty. By law they must put your interests above everyone else's, including their own. At the first substantive conversation about a property, they must give you the Information About Brokerage Services notice; the current form is IABS 1-2, effective January 1, 2026. Complaints go to TREC through its REALM Portal within four years and can't be anonymous.

Since January 1, 2026, an agent working for you as a buyer must sign a written agreement with you before showing a home, stating the broker's pay and that it isn't set by law and is fully negotiable. A broker can also show you a home without representing you under a non-exclusive showing agreement of no more than 14 days. TREC doesn't regulate commissions.

TREC's most frequently used contract is the One to Four Family Residential Contract (Resale), form 20-19, effective July 1, 2026. You pay an option fee for the right to back out within a negotiated number of days; terminate in time and the earnest money comes back, though the option fee doesn't. Both are due to the escrow agent within 3 days after the effective date.

The seller must give you a written Seller's Disclosure Notice by the contract's effective date. If you sign without one, you may terminate for any reason within seven days after receiving it.

Look up the address on the Harris County Flood Control District's mapping tool, then confirm on FEMA's official map at msc.fema.gov. Renovating in a county floodplain needs a Floodplain Development Permit, and a septic system needs a county permit with inspections. Ask the listing agent which water provider serves the home.

Once you own it, Texas school districts give a $140,000 homestead exemption (the amount in effect since November 4, 2025), applied for at the Harris Central Appraisal District, generally before May 1; confirm the exemptions that apply with HCAD. Protests are usually due May 15 or 30 days after your notice. Texas doesn't require sale prices to be disclosed to appraisal districts. The statewide median price was $339,000 in July 2026, unchanged from a year earlier, per the Texas Real Estate Research Center. Confirm tax and contract questions with a licensed Texas broker or tax adviser.

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