Why Simone Biles’s Houston Home Didn’t Actually Sell for $1.275 Million

Nearly every headline about Simone Biles‘s Houston house sale carried the same number: $1.275 million. That was the asking price. The figure the Houston Association of Realtors actually filed, a range of $1.08 million to $1.24 million, suggests what she got may have been as much as $195,000 less, and Texas law means the exact number stays private.

Texas is a non-disclosure state, which means the sale price of a home is not public record. What HAR reports instead is a band, the association’s accounting of where the closed price landed, which is why the gymnast’s sale shows up as a range rather than a check. The band tops out below the asking price: $1.24 million against $1.275 million, a $35,000 gap at the kind end, and a $195,000 gap, 15.3 percent under the ask, at the floor.

The county’s own number sits in the middle of that band. The Montgomery Central Appraisal District had the house valued at $1.2 million — the asking price ran 6.25 percent above it, and if the sale closed at the floor of HAR’s range, Biles accepted about 10 percent less than the county’s number. What she sold was a 3,998-square-foot contemporary in the gated Benders Landing Estates section of Spring: four bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a pool, a media room and a custom wine wall, held by Melissa Franklin of Re/Max Integrity under a listing that called it “pure perfection” and “built for entertainment.”

Speed was never the question. The house went under contract on September 26, about five days after it was listed, against a neighborhood where sellers currently wait a median of 27 days, per Houston MLS figures pulled October 17. Benders Landing homes sold over the past year fetched 97 percent of their final list price, about 95 percent of their original one. Biles’s sale, at anywhere from 84.7 to 97.3 percent of ask, was fast and generous at one end of the band, fast and discounted at the other.

When a fan asked in the TikTok comments why she would sell a house she loved, Biles answered in seven words: “because we built our dream home.” The dream home is the five-year project she started designing in 2020, broke ground on in February 2022, and finished in November 2025 — a custom waterfront mansion in the Spring area, the house she and her husband Jonathan Owens actually live in now. The home that just sold was the interim one, bought while the builders were still building.

There’s an Indianapolis chapter to this as well. Biles confirmed in an October 22 Parade interview that she has moved to Indianapolis, where Owens is playing his first season with the Colts, so the sale is a relocation trade as much as a property deal. The paperwork carries a family footnote: Biles is listed on the deed alongside her mother, Nellie. And the farewell video that made the rounds was pre-recorded on listing day (“Today is the first day the house is going to be on the market,” she says through tears) and posted on October 20, two days after the October 15 closing.

She’s not the first famous name to learn that a fast sale and a strong price are different things. Deshaun Watson’s Houston home first listed in 2017 at $1.65 million, cycled through listings and withdrawals, came back in February 2025 at $1.8 million, took a cut to $1.65 million by June, and finally found a buyer that August — with the filed range landing at $1.24 to $1.43 million. Five days against eight years. Both sales closed below their asking prices. The listing price is the advertisement; the range is the receipt.

Biles’s own count, in the video’s caption: “The house sold in 4 days 😭. I was so excited to put in air fresheners for the potential buyers & showing Jonathan the last look. I just cried instead.”