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Houston Condominium Management
RISE is headquartered in Houston and manages condominiums here as a specialty: high-rise towers, mid-rise and garden-style buildings, loft conversions, and townhome condos. In-house accounting, the RiseShield master insurance program, and building operations run on the High RISE Operating System.
Managing a single-family or master-planned HOA in Houston? See Houston HOA management: deed restrictions, MUDs, and the suburbs RISE serves from its headquarters.
Houston’s condo boards run buildings, not subdivisions. RISE manages them from its Houston headquarters, and treats the work as its own discipline.
Houston’s condominium stock runs from twin-tower high-rises at Hermann Park to historic loft conversions downtown, Galleria mid-rises, and tree-shaded townhome regimes on the West Side. Each one is a building with a board attached: shared mechanical systems, elevators and life-safety equipment, a master insurance policy with unit-boundary complexity, and reserves sized to a roof, a chiller, or a garage rather than a pool and an entry monument.
RISE was founded in Houston in 2016 and treats condominium management as a parallel pillar to HOA management, never a subordinate of it. Co-Founder John Elmore has spent 20+ years specializing in high-rise and master-planned communities, and the company keeps accounting, facilities, risk, and developer services in-house rather than outsourced. The Houston buildings RISE manages today, including The Mosaic, The Woodway, The Lofts on Post Oak, and The Keystone Lofts, are the proof.
Every Kind of Condominium, From Tower to Townhome
Condominium management in Houston covers more than high-rises. These are the building types RISE manages across the metro, each with its own operating profile and reserve picture.
High-Rise Towers
Staffed lobbies, elevators, and life-safety systems that never sleep. The Mosaic’s two towers at Hermann Park and The Woodway in Memorial are RISE-managed.
Mid-Rise Condominiums
Galleria and Inner Loop buildings where a smaller footprint still carries building-level budgets and shared infrastructure. The Lofts on Post Oak is one.
Loft & Historic Conversions
Downtown conversions with character to protect and older systems to plan around, like The Keystone Lofts.
Garden-Style & Low-Rise
Multi-building communities with shared roofs, breezeways, parking, and pools, where the association, not the owner, maintains the structures.
Townhome Condominiums
Attached homes organized as condominium regimes, where the regime carries exteriors and grounds. Georgetown Townhomes on the West Side is RISE-managed.
Mixed-Use & Retail-Base Buildings
Residential towers over ground-floor retail, where commercial tenants, parking structures, and residents share one set of systems and one budget. The Mosaic rises above 22,500 square feet of retail.
Houston Condo Management, Building by Building
Everything in full-service association management, plus the building-specific operations Houston condominiums demand. The examples are from RISE-managed Houston buildings.
Capital & Reserve Planning
Houston buildings carry elevators, chillers, garages, and envelopes with limited useful lives and large replacement costs. In-house budget analysts use proprietary projection tools and annual planning sessions to fund them on a schedule, so a deferred project doesn’t become a surprise special assessment. At The Mosaic that meant a 20% increase in the annual reserve contribution and a $170K building deficit restored.
Master Insurance: Windstorm & Flood
Condo master policies are their own discipline, and on the Gulf Coast the exposure is real: FEMA flood maps decide what a building must insure, and in designated coastal counties such as Galveston, windstorm and hail are written through TWIA. RiseShield, the master program structured through Archer Risk Services, delivers broader coverage with fewer exclusions and pricing leverage a single association can’t reach alone. The Keystone Lofts cut building insurance by 54% through it.
Building Systems Oversight
Elevators, fire and life-safety systems, pumps, chillers, generators, and access control on documented inspection and service schedules, managed through the RISE Elevate System rather than handled only when something breaks. The Woodway caught up its chillers, clay valves, and emergency generator with no special assessment.
Elevators & Life Safety
Annual fire-safety training with the Houston Fire Department on-site at The Mosaic, mock water-loss and fire drills that find weak spots before an emergency does, and elevator capital projects planned against the reserve picture. At The Keystone Lofts, hands-on project oversight saved more than $100,000 on capital work, including elevator replacements.
Owner Communication
Online voting, amenity reservations, real-time collections, and Sunny, CINC’s AI Concierge, answering residents 24/7. Comprehensive weekly management reports keep the board informed, and resident and guest surveys hold the on-site team to a standard of raving fans.
Concierge, Staffing & Leasing Compliance
Recruiting, training, and supervising the front desk so every shift delivers the same service, plus leasing-cap monitoring that tracks sub-leasing timelines and watches short-term-rental sites. The Lofts on Post Oak replaced a contracted front desk with an in-house concierge team, brought leasing from 44% to 35%, and runs 10,000+ inspections a year.
Four Things Every Houston Condo Board Has to Know
Managing a building here means working inside a coastal, multi-county system most other markets don’t have. These are the pieces a Houston condo manager keeps straight.
Floodplain & Windstorm
FEMA flood maps determine whether a building needs flood coverage; in designated coastal counties such as Galveston, windstorm and hail are written through the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association rather than a standard carrier. Both drive a Houston condo budget every year.
Chapter 82, Not Chapter 209
Texas condominiums are governed by Chapter 82 of the Property Code, the Uniform Condominium Act, rather than the Chapter 209 rules most HOAs follow. Notice, records, and enforcement procedures differ, and a misstep on process can undermine an otherwise valid board action.
Five Counties of Record
Greater Houston spans Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Galveston, and Brazoria counties. Recording, permitting, and appraisal districts differ by county, so a manager has to know which courthouse your declaration lives in.
The Most Competitive Market in Texas
Associa and FirstService Residential, two of the largest national firms, are both headquartered in Houston. Boards here know large-firm management and its frustrations: feeling like an account number, manager turnover, and functions outsourced to third parties. RISE was founded in Houston in 2016 as the deliberate counter.
Storm Season Is a Building
Operations Discipline
A Houston tower sits on flat coastal land in a hurricane corridor. The High RISE Operating System builds readiness into the routine: Prepare drills teams and boards for water damage, fires, hurricanes, and freezes before they happen, and Prevent tracks preventative maintenance on generators, pumps, and roof systems in proprietary software.
During Hurricane Harvey, RISE team members loaded kayaks into their trucks and drove through flooded streets to reach communities, assess damage, and bring supplies to residents. That is the standard the Houston team still works to.
Hurricane & storm readiness guide →High-Rise & Mid-Rise, in Depth
Vertical living adds a layer a garden-style community never touches: elevators and vertical transportation, fire and life-safety systems, shared chillers and generators, envelope and façade cycles, and a staffed lobby that has to deliver the same service on every shift. RISE manages that layer for The Mosaic, The Woodway, and The Lofts on Post Oak in Houston, and for Vidorra in San Antonio.
The specialty page covers each of those systems, how reserves and master insurance change for a coastal tower, and the questions high-rise boards ask most.
Houston & Texas high-rise management →
Proof, by Address
Houston condominium communities under RISE management, from a 792-residence twin tower to a historic downtown loft. See all featured properties →
What Changed When RISE Took Over
Three Houston buildings came to RISE with the problems condo boards know well: books behind, service that dropped off after the first shift, and deferred maintenance with no plan to pay for it.
From Financial Disarray to $0 Delinquency
Roughly 18 months without financial statements and a backlog of delinquent assessments. RISE reconstructed the financials, partnered with the board to eliminate the delinquencies, cut building insurance 54% through its proprietary insurance program, and redirected the savings into reserves. See The Keystone Lofts →
Uniform Service Across All Three Shifts
Inconsistent concierge service, unmonitored leasing compliance, and a backlog of deferred maintenance. RISE put ongoing training and supervision behind the front desk, built a leasing-compliance system, and caught up chillers, clay valves, and the emergency generator with no special assessment. See The Woodway →
A Landmark Address, Re-Engaged
By 2019, inconsistent financials, a contractor overcharging the association, and a disengaged on-site team. RISE brought a support structure, in-house staff, and condominium-specific methodology: a 20% increase in the annual reserve contribution, a $170K building deficit restored, and a team that bought in. See The Mosaic →
A condominium is governed differently from an HOA, and Houston boards feel the difference every month.
Texas condominiums fall under Chapter 82 of the Property Code, the Uniform Condominium Act, while most single-family and master-planned HOAs follow Chapter 209. The statutes shape notice requirements, enforcement procedures, owner rights, and records access, and getting them right matters: a misstep on notice or process can undermine an otherwise valid board action. RISE handles governing-document administration and statutory compliance so the process holds up.
The questions Houston condo boards bring us most often are the ones that sit between the building and the market: what a condo owner maintains versus what the regime maintains, why a building lands on Fannie Mae’s ineligible list and how that affects every owner’s financing, how to bill and site EV charging fairly, and how Houston’s short-term rental rules apply to a condominium. Each has its own guide in the Learning Hub.
Two Decades in Vertical Communities
Co-Founder John Elmore has spent 20+ years specializing in high-rise and master-planned communities across Texas and the Southwest. A decorated USMC combat veteran and Purple Heart recipient, he anchors the high-rise and condominium expertise that sets RISE apart in Houston’s urban core.
Behind him sits a company built to keep the critical functions in-house: budget analysts and accrual-basis, GAAP-aligned accounting with financial statements by the 15th, a facilities team running the RISE Elevate System, the RiseShield insurance program, and developer services for buildings that haven’t seated their first board yet.
Meet the founders →Houston Boards Rate RISE 4.5 out of 5
Every review is public and unedited. Across RISE's four Texas offices, boards and homeowners have left 1,205 Google reviews averaging 4.6 out of 5.
Read the reviews on Google →Houston Condominium Management, Answered
A Houston HOA board enforces deed restrictions and maintains common areas; a condo board runs a building. That means larger operating budgets, shared mechanical systems that serve every unit at once, a master insurance policy with unit-boundary complexity, and capital-intensive reserves for the roof, the garage, and the envelope. Texas condominiums are also governed by Chapter 82 of the Property Code rather than the Chapter 209 rules most HOAs follow.
RISE runs condominium management as a parallel pillar, never a subordinate of HOA management. If your community is a single-family or master-planned HOA, the Houston HOA management page is the better starting point.
High-rise towers, mid-rise and garden-style buildings, loft and historic conversions, mixed-use buildings with ground-floor retail, and townhome condominium regimes. Named Houston communities under RISE management include The Mosaic at Hermann Park, The Woodway in Memorial, The Lofts on Post Oak in the Galleria, The Keystone Lofts downtown, and Georgetown Townhomes on the West Side.
FEMA floodplain designations determine whether a building needs flood coverage, and in designated coastal counties such as Galveston, windstorm and hail damage is written through the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) rather than a standard carrier. Because the association insures the structure itself, insurance is one of the largest line items in a Houston condo budget, and a single uncovered claim can devastate the association’s finances.
RiseShield, RISE’s master insurance program structured through Archer Risk Services, is built for exactly this exposure: broader coverage with fewer exclusions, lower premiums, streamlined claims handling when storms hit, and ongoing risk-management support.
Yes. The Mosaic, a two-tower high-rise with 792 residences directly across from Hermann Park, and The Woodway, a high-rise condominium in Memorial, are both RISE-managed. High-rise work adds elevators, life-safety systems, shared mechanical plant, and staffed lobbies to the condo discipline; see high-rise condominium management for how RISE handles that layer.
Every record is aggregated and new systems are stood up: an association website, owner and board portals, the accounting framework, banking integration, and vendor migration. That is how The Mosaic moved to RISE in 2019 after years with its original management company. Where the books are behind, they get rebuilt first: at The Keystone Lofts, RISE reconstructed roughly 18 months of missing financials, partnered with the board to bring delinquency to $0, and built a long-range funding plan before turning to the building itself.
Co-Founder John Elmore, a BBA in Accounting from UTSA, decorated USMC combat veteran, and Purple Heart recipient, brings 20+ years specializing in high-rise and master-planned communities across Texas and the Southwest. RISE was founded in Houston in 2016, and condominium and high-rise expertise is what sets it apart in Houston’s urban core.
RISE is headquartered at 3131 Eastside St, Suite 130, Houston, TX 77098, with a second Gulf Coast office in League City. Call (713) 936-9200 or request a proposal below and the Houston team will respond within one business day.
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What Partnering with RISE Includes
- A dedicated community manager who knows your community
- Financial statements by the 15th, in-house, accrual basis
- Same-day callbacks and 24/365 emergency availability
- The RiseShield master insurance program