Who Is the Best Real Estate Agent for New Construction in The Woodlands? (2026 Answer)

Kim Vargas of Real Broker, LLC reads a lot's paperwork before anyone writes an offer. Kim Vargas has held a Texas real estate license since February 2016, and her profile on houstonproperties.com lists $80M+ in closed volume (September 2026). The Houston Properties Team has served over 3,000 families and has 21+ full-time staff (houstonproperties.com, September 2026). On November 2, 2021, voters turned down making The Woodlands a city, 16,431 to 7,932 on Proposition A in the unofficial count (Community Impact).

That vote left the Township, the counties and the utility districts sharing the work a city would do, and the split matters most on a build. The Township adopts no ordinances and runs no traditional building department, so its covenants govern what goes on a lot. The building code still prevails where the two conflict. Before an offer on a lot or a new house, Kim reads which utility district taxes it, whether the county line puts it in Harris County and Tomball ISD, what the Township's covenants and the neighborhood's own rules allow on it, and whether its section has flooded along Spring Creek. Ask every agent you interview to do the same for one address you are weighing, and to show the record behind each answer.

The Township's covenants govern what can be built on every Woodlands lot, and its covenant administration department reviews applications and issues permits. Which covenant set applies depends on the village, and each neighborhood adds more specific criteria of its own. Read both for the specific lot before you sign with a builder, and ask to see the Township approval for the plans.

The Woodlands Community Association's covenants cover Panther Creek, Grogan's Mill, Cochran's Crossing and Indian Springs east of Falconwing Drive. The Woodlands Association's cover Alden Bridge, College Park, Creekside Park, Sterling Ridge and Indian Springs west of Falconwing Drive. The Township adopts no ordinances and runs no traditional building department, so these covenants and its Residential Development Standards do that work. Construction still has to meet the building code, which the standards say prevails where the two conflict. The full list of approvals and deadlines is under what needs Township approval before you buy, build or repaint.

Removing any living tree more than six inches across, measured two feet above the ground, needs the Township's prior written approval. On a lot you plan to build on, that rule reaches every such tree the house, driveway or pool would replace, so the trees belong in the plan before the design goes in for review.

The Township asks owners to mark the outline of a proposed improvement on the lot, and to flag any tree they want removed, before staff visit. A complete application is to be acted on within 45 days of receipt, and one not acted on in that time is automatically disapproved. Staff can approve items that clearly meet the standards; anything else goes to a committee meeting. An owner or an affected neighbor can appeal in writing to the Development Standards Committee within 10 days, and that committee's decisions are final. It can grant a variance where strict compliance would create an undue hardship, though it will not hear one while a violation on the property is on notice.

Ask whether the lot's section has flooded along Spring Creek, what the current FEMA map shows for the parcel, and how the utility district drains the section. In Creekside Park, compare the draft Harris County map too. Newer neighborhoods have a record of their own: residents estimated about 100 flooded homes in Timarron Lakes during Hurricane Harvey in 2017, and about 200 in neighboring Timarron.

Timarron Lakes pays Harris-Montgomery Counties MUD 386, which the Houston Chronicle reported in October 2017 was created in 2001 and served about 4,900 homes in some of The Woodlands' newest neighborhoods. The district's engineers said in 2017 that its drainage was designed for a 100-year storm, as Harris County requires. In 2018, 485 homeowners in the Timarron Park area sued The Woodlands Land Development Company, The Howard Hughes Corporation and LJA Engineering, alleging homes were built at unreasonably low elevations in a 500-year floodplain; those are the homeowners' allegations, not findings. FEMA's draft Harris County maps, released on February 12, 2026, reach only Creekside Park within The Woodlands, and they are not final and do not change insurance requirements or building rules. Price a flood policy during the option period, because the Texas Department of Insurance says most home policies do not cover flood damage and most flood policies have a 30-day waiting period. Each section's history, from the 2016 storms to the draft maps, is set out in the Spring Creek flood history for The Woodlands.

Request a home valuation before you commit to a build, so the sale of your current Woodlands house is priced from recent sales in its own section and utility district. Redfin's village medians for June through August 2026 ran from $363,575 in College Park to $818,605 in Creekside Park, so the community median says little about one house. You can ask Kim Vargas for the valuation.

Timing moves the number as well. Redfin's median was 51 days on the market in the three months to February 2026 and 22 in the three months to June, and 39.3% of homes took a price cut in the three months to August. A sale planned around a build's schedule is priced against the same months of the year before. Start with the house's own records, beginning with the Township's permit history, because a buyer inherits any change the covenants never approved and an application to correct it has up to 45 days to be acted on. Request a home valuation, and ask to see the comparables and the reasoning behind the number.