Bryan & College Station, Texas
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Most people find out about a house near campus from a search ad. Our clients hear about it from someone they already know. Shears Realty is a family-run brokerage working the market around Texas A&M — with a broker's thirty-year record standing behind an agent who is actually in the room where these decisions start.
The honest number
Right now, buying near campus is a rent-avoidance play — not an appreciation play.
You will hear a lot about long-run appreciation in College Station. Over a long enough window that story is real. It is also not what the market is doing this year — values here have been essentially flat.
So we do not lead with it. The case for buying a place for your student is the rent you stop paying and what roommates cover while they live there. That case is often strong. Sometimes it is not, and we will say so before you write a cheque, not after.
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What we do
Three kinds of client, one standard.
Parents buying near campus
Four years of rent is real money. We will show you what buying actually costs against it — including taxes, management, vacancy and the exit — and tell you plainly when renting wins.
Investors & local landlords
We know this rental cycle from inside it — when leases turn, which streets fill first, which ones sat empty last fall. Deals that pencil, not listings forwarded in bulk.
Students finding a place
No commission on a lease is worth treating someone badly over. You will get a text back the same day, every time, whether or not there is anything in it for us.
THE ONLY PROMISE WE MAKE TWICE
2 hours
Every call, text and email gets a reply from an actual person within two business hours. If we do not have your answer yet, you will still hear from us inside two hours, with the time you will get it. Nothing sits overnight. This is the one thing a two-person brokerage can do that a large team genuinely cannot.
Who you're working with
Two people. Both answer the phone.
[Broker's Name]
DESIGNATED BROKER · TREC #[XXXXXXX]
Thirty years in Texas real estate, most of it commercial. He reviews every contract this firm writes and he is the reason a brand-new brokerage can be trusted with a purchase.
Charlie Shears
SALES AGENT · TREC #[XXXXXXX]
Runs the day to day. A student at Texas A&M, which is the whole point — he hears where people are moving before it reaches a listing site. He is who you will talk to first.
Listings
Nothing listed yet. That's not a typo.
We opened this year. Rather than pad this page with other brokerages' inventory, we would rather show you nothing until we have something of our own. In the meantime, tell us what you need and we will go find it — most of what sells near campus never makes it to a public search anyway.
Thinking about it? Start there.
You do not need to be ready to buy, sell or sign anything. Most useful conversations we have start a year before a transaction does.
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