The short answer: concierge home management in Dallas typically runs between $4,800 and $24,000 per year for an owner-occupied residence — roughly $400 to $2,000 per month — depending on the size of the home, the complexity of its systems, and the scope of the membership. A home around 5,000 square feet in the Park Cities will land near the lower end. A multi-acre estate in Preston Hollow with multiple structures, a pool, and substantial grounds will land toward the upper end.
That range is wide on purpose. The work scales with the residence. What follows is a more granular look — what drives the number, what's typically included, what isn't, and how to evaluate whether the math actually works for your home.
What drives the price
Three variables do most of the work.
The first is square footage. Larger homes have more systems, more finishes, longer walkthroughs, and more vendor activity. Most Dallas concierge firms price in tiers — a home up to 5,000 square feet sits at one rate, 5,000–8,000 at another, 8,000–12,000 at another, and anything above that is typically custom-quoted. Roost & Realm Pro, for reference, starts at $399 per month for homes up to 5,000 square feet.
The second is property complexity. A 6,000-square-foot residence with a pool, a guest house, an outdoor kitchen, an irrigation system across three zones, a generator, and a whole-home automation platform is operationally larger than a 6,000-square-foot residence without any of that — even if the square footage is the same. Detached structures, water features, specialty mechanical systems, and large grounds each add to the scope.
The third is service cadence. A standard membership typically includes quarterly handyman visits, semi-annual walkthroughs, semi-annual paint touch-ups, and on-demand emergency response. Some homeowners want more — monthly handyman cadence, quarterly walkthroughs, weekly check-ins during travel. The membership flexes to fit; the price tracks accordingly.
What's typically included in the membership
A reasonable Dallas concierge home management membership includes:
- A dedicated concierge — the same person, not a rotating pool — available during business hours and reachable for after-hours emergencies.
- A documented property profile, built during onboarding and maintained over time.
- Quarterly handyman or maintenance visits handling small repairs, filter changes, weatherstripping, and the steady accumulation of minor work.
- Semi-annual property walkthroughs with photographic condition reports.
- Vendor coordination across your existing trades and access to a vetted bench for new needs.
- Same-day emergency response.
- A member portal with a complete record of work orders, photos, and invoices.
- Seasonal planning — HVAC, irrigation, drainage, holiday lighting, and pre-storm preparation.
What's not included — and shouldn't be
The membership covers coordination, oversight, and routine maintenance labor. It does not cover the cost of larger third-party services — your pool company's monthly contract, your landscape company's mowing contract, your HVAC service contract, your pest control, your generator service. Those continue to be billed by the vendors directly, on the contracts you already have or the ones your concierge helps you put in place.
Major repairs and renovations are also separate. A roof replacement after hail, a kitchen update, a new water heater, an electrical panel upgrade — these are quoted by the appropriate trade, executed under contract, and managed by your concierge as project oversight rather than billed within the membership.
With a well-structured firm, these third-party costs are billed separately from the membership, and the concierge firm's compensation is the membership itself. It is worth understanding how any firm structures its pricing before you sign.
How to evaluate whether the math works
The question to ask is not "is this expensive" but "what is the displaced cost." A working framework:
Estimate, honestly, how many hours per year the homeowner currently spends on house operations — scheduling vendors, supervising work, paying invoices, responding to surprises, researching trades, sitting through service windows, and managing the small decisions that pile up. For a typical fine Dallas home with an attentive owner, that number is somewhere between 40 and 120 hours per year. Multiply by the homeowner's own time value.
Add the cost of the mistakes that get made when no one is holding the calendar — the deferred maintenance that becomes a repair, the vendor invoice that is paid without scrutiny, the seasonal service that gets skipped because it was on no one's specific list. A reasonable estimate for the financial drag of unmanaged home operations on a fine home is $3,000 to $8,000 per year.
Compare the total against the membership fee. For most fine Dallas homes, the math is favorable on the membership side — particularly when the homeowner's time has commercial value. The membership doesn't generate savings in the abstract; it generates them by closing the gap between what should be happening and what currently is.
What to ask before you commit
A short list of questions that separate the firms doing this well from the firms doing it adequately:
- Is the membership a fixed annual fee, or is there a per-call surcharge?
- Is the concierge the same person every call?
- How quickly does the firm answer an after-hours call?
- Is there a written property profile that updates over time? Can the firm walk you through a sample?
- What is the firm's response standard during severe weather events?
- Are you free to leave the membership at the end of the term, or are you locked into multi-year commitments?
For a longer overview of what concierge home management actually covers in this market, see our pillar page on concierge home management in Dallas — or, for the neighborhood-specific picture, Highland Park, Preston Hollow, and Park Cities.
If you'd like a candid number for your specific home — what membership would cost, what would be included, what would sit outside it — we're glad to walk through it with you. No long form, no pressure.
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