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Neighborhood answers, current market data, and a clear next step, whether you're buying in Sienna or thinking about selling.

From Yolanda Ames of the Houston Properties Team at Real Broker, LLC.

Two-story brick and stone home at dusk. Warm light fills its windows, and lanterns glow beside the stone entry arch and its dark front door. A wrought-iron gate with a star closes the opening at the end of the driveway. Stone-edged flower beds and a mown lawn fill the foreground under a pink and blue sky, with tall trees on either side.

Sienna in numbers.

$528,000
Median sale price
42
Median days on market
692
Homes sold, trailing 12 months
$179
Average price per square foot

Sienna market data as of October 2026.

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What buyers and sellers ask about Sienna.

Is now a good time to sell a home in Sienna?

Homes are selling, but buyers have room to negotiate. As of October 2026, the median Sienna home took 42 days to sell and closed at 97.7 percent of asking. From June through August 2026, 53.1% of Sienna listings had a price cut and 7.2% of sales closed above asking, in Redfin's figures. A first price set from your own section's recent sales, with nearby builder incentives beside it, is the place to start.

Wondering what your home is worth? Ask Yolanda Ames for a valuation based on your section's sales. How to answer a builder's rate offer without cutting your price is set out in selling a Sienna resale when builders offer incentives.

How do you check a Sienna real estate agent's track record?

Look up the license on the Texas Real Estate Commission's website, then ask for the agent's own closed Sienna sales, with the address and month of each, rather than the brokerage's total. Read reviews from past buyers and sellers, and ask how the agent reads a Sienna tax bill, the levee district tax and the notices to purchasers. A good agent answers those with specifics.

Yolanda Ames has closed 24 sales in Sienna since 2014, most recently in July 2026 (Houston Properties Team records, September 2026), has held a Texas license since May 2009, and has a 4.98 of 5 client rating across 123 HAR surveys (September 2026). Ask her for her Sienna sales by address. Her record and contact details are under About Yolanda Ames.

How do you buy a home in Sienna?

Start with a lender pre-approval. Then, before you write an offer, look up three things for the exact address: which utility district it is in, whether it sits inside the Missouri City limits, and what the district and levee taxes add up to. On the rates the taxing units published for 2025, the total ran from about $2.29 to $2.94 per $100 of value, depending on the district.

So two homes at the same price can carry different monthly payments. If you are looking at new construction and want your own agent beside you, ask the builder's sales office before your first visit how it registers an agent. Looking at Sienna? Talk to Yolanda Ames before you tour, and read the questions to put to a Sienna buyer's agent.

What do homes in Sienna cost right now?

The median Sienna sale price was $528,000 as of October 2026, at $179 a square foot, with 692 homes sold over the past twelve months. Price varies by section and by utility district, so the community median describes Sienna as a whole rather than one street. Send Yolanda Ames the section you are watching and she will send its numbers.

Redfin, which files Sienna under its old name, Sienna Plantation, put the median for June through August 2026 at 4.3% below the same months of 2025. To learn what one house would bring, request a home valuation.

Is Sienna Point part of Sienna?

No. Sienna Point is a separate acreage neighborhood near Sienna, inside the same levee district, with 216 single-family homes on a median lot of about 2.7 acres, a median market value of $1,015,301 and a range of $654,000 to $1.63 million (HAR, 2025 figures). HAR lists no utility district for it but an emergency services district, so read the parcel's own tax account.

If using nearby Sienna amenities matters to you, confirm with the HOA what Sienna Point owners can access before you buy. Looking at Sienna Point? Talk to Yolanda Ames before you tour, and read Sienna Point, the acreage neighborhood near Sienna.

What is the real property tax rate on a Sienna house?

It depends on the utility district. For tax year 2025, Fort Bend ISD, Fort Bend County with its drainage fund, the levee district and a Sienna MUD added up to between $2.2889 per $100 of value in MUD 3 and $2.9414 in MUDs 6 and 7. The annexed former MUD 2 sections pay Missouri City's rate instead of a MUD.

The developer's tax table assigns each Sienna neighborhood to one district, and Tax Tech, the districts' tax collector, lists each rate line by line, including the road and contract taxes inside MUDs 4, 6 and 7. Several districts still have most of their voter-approved bonds left to sell, which can move a rate later. Exemptions come off taxable value first. Every unit, every district and each district's bond balance are in the table of Sienna property taxes by utility district.

Is Sienna protected by a levee, and does it still flood?

Most of Sienna sits inside two levee systems, 20.1 miles in all, run by the Sienna Parks & Levee Improvement District, which closes flood gates and pumps rain out when the Brazos is high. During Hurricane Harvey the levees held, but the district's engineers counted 73 homes with water damage from rain that fell inside the system.

Voters approved $139 million in November 2018 for more pumping, storage and flood gates, and the district levied $0.4125 per $100 for 2025 and 2026. It urges residents to look into flood insurance, and whether a lender requires a policy depends on the lot's FEMA map. The district's tax, its bonds, what Harvey showed and what to check on one lot are on the page about the Sienna levee district.

Is my Sienna address inside Missouri City?

Only if the lot is in one of the parts of Sienna inside the city limits. Most of Sienna lies in Missouri City's extraterritorial jurisdiction, where the city levies no property tax. Missouri City annexed the former Sienna MUD 2 sections on August 21, 2023, and parts of MUDs 3, 10 and 12 are inside its limits too. The parcel's appraisal district account lists the city where it applies.

The annexed homes went on the city's tax roll for 2024, with the first payment due January 31, 2025, and pay the city's rate, $0.570825 per $100 for 2025, where they used to pay MUD 2. Each of the other Sienna MUDs has an agreement with the city that may set how and when its land outside the city is annexed. The annexation, the other parts inside the city and how to check a lot are on the page about which parts of Sienna are in Missouri City.

Should I buy a new home or a resale in Sienna?

Compare them on the full monthly cost rather than the price alone. A builder prices a new home from its price sheet and sells it on its own contract, while a resale is priced against closed sales, and as of October 2026 Sienna homes closed at 97.7 percent of list price. In Redfin's figures for June through August 2026, 53.1% of listings had a price cut.

The tax rate can differ as much as the price: a home in MUD 6 or 7 carried $1.05 per $100 of utility district tax for 2025 against $0.3975 in MUD 3. Ask for each district's notice to purchasers, the builder's incentives in writing and the closed sales in the resale's own section. The figures behind the resale side, and how price per square foot has moved, are in the Sienna housing market update.

How do you get from Sienna to Beltway 8, and what does it cost?

The Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road starts at Sienna Parkway and runs 6.2 tolled miles to Beltway 8, then on to US-90A. With a toll tag, a two-axle car pays $0.51 at each of three plazas and $0.77 at Fondren, $2.30 for all four. The road takes no cash and has no pay by mail.

The Fort Bend County Toll Road Authority runs the section from Sienna Parkway to Beltway 8, and the Harris County Toll Road Authority runs it north of there. A car needs an electronic tag such as EZ TAG or TxTag, and a vehicle without one pays the violation rate. The authority publishes no drive time, so time the trip at the time of day you would drive it. The route, the schools and the rest of the community are in the Sienna neighborhood guide.

How this site works for you.

  • Start with your questions

    Prices, timing, streets, property taxes: every Sienna question gets a direct answer grounded in current data, not a sales pitch.

  • See the market as it is

    Neighborhood-level numbers, refreshed as the market moves, so a decision to buy or sell in Sienna rests on data rather than headlines.

  • Work with a neighborhood specialist

    Yolanda Ames works in Sienna specifically and follows it closely, with the details that only come from being local.

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