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“Al Bunch from Creekstone was exceptional to work with. By far the most professional, ethical, knowledgeable and patient realtor we have had the pleasure working with.”
“Elissa was very helpful throughout the process and her attention to detail was very impressive. She answered all my questions and provided valuable guidance.”
“Creekstone helped get this property on MLS and we got 7 offers in 5 days. Great experience. Great group to work with!”
“Showing frequency ended up being better than when the house was listed with a full service broker, and they successfully sold the house.”
“Al Bunch was exceptional. He was knowledgeable, punctual, and very much on top of all aspects of the process. He kept me informed and was excellent at offering me his expert and professional guidance.”
“Al and team are excellent to work with and did an amazing job to help us sell our house.”
“Al and Creekstone Real Estate are the best! Through a series of real estate transactions with them we have saved thousands of dollars. Despite the incredibly low costs, customer service is outstanding.”
“I saved over $7,000 in commissions by using Creekstone Realty. On top of the substantial savings, Al Bunch made the entire listing and selling process a smooth ride.”
“Great communication through entire process!”
“Simply cannot recommend the Creekstone group highly enough. The absolute best service and attention to detail was second only to the wealth of knowledge. From start to finish, the process was well explained and easy to understand.”
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“Cannot recommend Al highly enough. Professional, knowledgeable, goes above and beyond, and a pleasure to work with!”
“Creekstone has been absolutely phenomenal! They listed our home with zero issues, and it was the smoothest and most responsive process we have ever been through.”
“Quick and easy process selling a house with this company! Their team walked us through the process step by step and made sure we were comfortable the entire time.”
“Excellent service, knowledgeable broker and flexible options. I would recommend Creekstone Real Estate for all of your real estate needs!”
“Realtor helps me go through the process very well.”
“He is there whenever you need him and keeps you well informed of each step and anticipated process with solid solutions.”
“I highly recommend Al with Creekstone. He is professional and knowledgeable.”
“Our experience with Al was wonderful. We appreciated that he didn't make us feel like we needed to hurry up. He was patient and informative throughout the entire process.”
“He works hard and won't give up. He has a lot of experience and is well connected. He was extremely knowledgeable about the area and very helpful in the negotiations.”
“Al has the best communication skills, and was always one step ahead of the game. His experience and expertise gave him the ability to anticipate my needs and questions, and provide answers to questions I didn't even know I had.”
Same scope of service. The 2% difference goes back into your equity.
Compared to a traditional 3% listing-side commission. Buyer-agent compensation is separate and negotiated as part of the offer.
Same mechanics as a 3% listing — the only difference is the fee at closing.
Free, on the phone. We walk through recent sales of homes like yours, talk through current market conditions, and cover pricing and timing strategy. The most important part is listening to what you're trying to accomplish.
We send the listing paperwork to complete electronically, schedule the listing photographer, and schedule the yard sign and lockbox install. You review and approve everything before we set a go-live date.
Once you approve and we hit go-live, your listing goes active in HAR MLS and syndicates within hours to HAR.com, Realtor.com, Zillow, Redfin, and the rest of the buyer-facing portals.
Buyer agents request showings through the MLS showing system. You accept, reject, or reschedule yourself — by phone, email, text, or app. We collect feedback and present every offer with our recommendation.
Option period management, inspection negotiations, appraisal issues if they come up, title coordination, and closing-table representation. We handle all of it.
The 1% listing fee is paid from sale proceeds at the closing table. No upfront fees, no per-service add-ons, no surprises.
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Creekstone Real Estate lists Houston homes for a 1% listing fee with full-service representation — professional photography, HAR MLS exposure, pricing strategy, showing coordination, and negotiation all the way through closing.
Houston is the largest and most-traded real estate market in Texas — and one of the most varied. Based on Redfin's Data Center for Houston city-proper:
Source: Redfin Data Center, 30 days ending March 31, 2026.
Those numbers average across an enormous metro. Some Houston neighborhoods are still selling in single-digit days; others take more than a hundred. The number that actually matters for your sale is what's happening with homes like yours, in your neighborhood, that have recently sold — not the citywide median.
Same MLS exposure. Very different scope of work.
A few questions come up almost every listing consultation in Houston — they’re worth answering directly:
“If your fee is lower, your service must be lower too.” The fee is lower because the brokerage operates leaner, not because the listing scope is reduced. Same MLS, same photography, same negotiation, same closing support. Photography, marketing remarks, and showing coordination are not the line items where 3% agents spend most of their gross fee.
“Will buyer agents show a 1% listing?” This used to be a fair concern when MLS published offered buyer-agent commission, but that practice ended with the 2024 NAR settlement — buyer agents can no longer see any offered compensation in the MLS at all. Buyer-side fees are now negotiated between the buyer and their agent up front, and typically come through as part of the offer (often as a request for you to cover some or all of the buyer’s agent fee). Your 1% listing fee is between you and Creekstone, not visible anywhere in the MLS. Whether buyer agents show your home depends on what their buyer is looking for, not on what you’re paying us to list it.
“My home is in a tough Houston neighborhood — will a 1% listing be aggressive enough?” The work that sells a home in a slower neighborhood is pricing accuracy, photography, and MLS presentation. A 3% fee doesn’t buy more aggressive marketing — it just costs more. We’ve listed homes from the Heights to Alief, from West U to Spring Branch, and the listing scope is identical across them.
Houston’s neighborhoods behave very differently from each other, and the “right” recent sales to price your home against come from your specific neighborhood, not a citywide average. We list across:
Houston spans several school districts, and the boundaries don’t follow city lines or freeways the way buyers expect. Houston ISD is the largest, but listings inside Loop 610 and around the Memorial corridor often sit in Spring Branch ISD. Northwest Houston is largely Cypress-Fairbanks ISD or Klein ISD. Far west Houston listings can fall inside Katy ISD, and southwest portions of the city fall into Fort Bend ISD — both highly regarded districts that affect Houston pricing well outside their namesake cities. School zone matters in pricing, and the right zone isn’t always the one you’d guess from the address — we verify the current attendance zone from district records before the listing goes live.
Houston is the most varied seller market in Texas. The same listing strategy that wins in West U falls flat in Spring Branch, and the recent sales that justify your price in Memorial are the wrong ones to use in Clear Lake. The 1% fee on a Houston-median home keeps about $6,900 more of your equity at the closing table — but the bigger value is in pricing the home correctly for its specific neighborhood. That's where most Houston sellers leave money on the table, regardless of who lists their home.
— Al Bunch, Broker, Creekstone Real Estate
Learn more about our pricing approach on our How a Realtor Can Charge 1% Commission page, run the numbers yourself with the Houston seller net sheet calculator, or start with a free, no-obligation Houston market analysis.
Houston is the largest real estate market in Texas, with thousands of listings closing every month and commission rates that have stayed stubbornly high. A 1% listing fee keeps a meaningful slice of your equity at the closing table — on a $345,000 Houston home (the city's current median sale price), you keep about $6,900 more than you would with a traditional 3% listing. Creekstone Real Estate handles photography, HAR MLS marketing, pricing strategy, showing coordination, and negotiation from contract to close — the same scope as a 3% listing, with the listing-side fee cut to 1%.
Full service, not limited service. As a licensed Houston broker, Creekstone provides the same representation a 3% agent provides — pricing built off recent comparable sales, professional listing photography, HAR MLS marketing that syndicates to HAR.com, Realtor.com, Zillow, Redfin, and the rest, showing coordination, offer review and counter strategy, transaction management, and closing-table support. The fee is what changes; the work doesn't. We're not a flat-fee MLS service that drops your listing into HAR and walks away.
Houston's footprint is enormous — Harris County alone runs from the Energy Corridor west, through downtown and the Med Center, out to Clear Lake and the Bay Area. Neighborhoods inside the city differ wildly: 1920s bungalows in the Heights, mid-century ranches in Meyerland, gated patio homes in West U, post-Harvey rebuilds across Memorial and Bellaire, master-planned newer construction on the outskirts. The 'right' price for a Houston home is a neighborhood question, not a citywide one — which is exactly why the recent sales we use to price your home matter more here than anywhere else in the metro.
If you're searching for a discount realtor in Houston, a flat fee listing agent, or a low commission real estate broker, Creekstone Real Estate delivers full-service representation for a 1% listing fee. Unlike limited-service flat fee MLS brokers, we handle everything — pricing strategy, professional photography, MLS marketing, showing coordination, offer negotiation, and closing — so you save on commission without sacrificing service.
Our listing fee is 1% of sale price with a $3,000 minimum. On a $345,000 Houston home (the current median) you'd pay $3,450 instead of roughly $10,350 to a traditional 3% listing agent — about $6,900 more of your equity stays at the closing table. Use the savings calculator above to plug in your own sale price.
Based on Redfin data through March 2026, Houston as a whole is sitting at 5.0 months of supply — balanced territory leaning slightly toward buyers. Median sale prices are down about 3% year-over-year, active inventory is essentially flat, and median days on market sits at 64 days. That's normal-to-slow pace for the city as a whole, but neighborhoods vary widely — homes in the Heights, West U, and Bellaire still move quickly, while parts of Spring Branch and the south side take longer. The number that matters for your sale is what's happening in your neighborhood, not the citywide average.
Yes. Your home is listed on the full HAR MLS, which syndicates to HAR.com, Realtor.com, Zillow, Redfin, and hundreds of other sites. There is no buyer-facing difference between a 1% listing and a 3% listing — they appear identically on every search portal.
Since the 2024 NAR settlement, buyer-agent compensation is fully negotiable and is no longer published in MLS. The buyer and their agent agree on the buyer-agent fee up front, and the buyer typically asks the seller to cover some or all of it as part of their offer — meaning it's negotiated alongside price, closing date, and other terms. Most Houston sellers still end up agreeing to cover at least part of the buyer-agent fee because it widens the buyer pool, but the amount is your call. We walk you through current Houston norms during the listing consultation.
Absolutely. We list on the Houston Association of Realtors MLS directly, which feeds HAR.com, Realtor.com, Zillow, Redfin, and the rest — not a limited-service flat-fee MLS entry. That means full marketing remarks, full photo set, accurate showing instructions, and the broker contact on file is us, not you.
A flat fee MLS service charges a few hundred dollars upfront and enters your home into MLS — that's it. Showings, calls from buyer's agents, contract negotiation, inspections, and contract-to-close paperwork are your problem. Creekstone's 1% listing is the same full service a 3% agent provides — we handle all of it. The 1% fee is paid at closing from sale proceeds, not upfront.
The typical Houston home is currently taking about 64 days to get an accepted offer, and 1% listings move on the same timeline as 3% listings — buyers and their agents do not see or care about the listing-side fee. What actually affects how fast you get an offer is pricing, presentation, and your specific neighborhood, which is exactly what the listing consultation focuses on.
No. The 1% listing fee covers professional photography, MLS entry and marketing, pricing analysis, showing coordination, negotiation, transaction management, and closing-table representation. The only separate cost is whatever buyer-agent commission you choose to offer (negotiable), and standard third-party closing costs that any seller pays regardless of listing agent — title insurance, HOA transfer fees, county recording, and similar.
