Who is Tajana Surlan?

Tajana Surlan, MBA, is the founder of Texas Interests Real Estate Advisory and the broker behind the 126.9-acre Fulshear Junction mixed-use development. She is a former elected member of Fulshear City Council, a certified MWBE, and a member of the Katy Area Economic Development Council. Her brokerage license is held with RE/MAX Fine Properties.

Who is the broker for Fulshear Junction?

Tajana Surlan represented the seller team for Fulshear Junction across three years of pre-development. The 126.9-acre mixed-use development north of FM 1093 was approved by Fulshear City Council on May 21, 2024, and includes 251 single-family homes, 21.21 acres of commercial / restaurant / office / national daycare, and a 5.3-acre detention pond gifted to the City for downtown drainage. Century Communities is the residential builder; the project is adjacent to Polo Ranch with first construction anticipated summer 2025.

Did Tajana Surlan serve on Fulshear City Council?

Yes — Tajana served as an elected member of Fulshear City Council during the city's transition from rural town to one of Texas's fastest-growing cities. She championed a business-friendly dark-sky lighting ordinance, worked on tree-preservation rules, and helped Fulshear win a Houston-Galveston Area Council award for the Irene Stern Butterfly & Pollinator Garden. Earlier coverage of her council work was published under the name Tajana Mesic.

Does Tajana Surlan sell land in Katy and Fulshear?

Yes — land acquisitions and seller representation across Fulshear, Katy, and Fort Bend County are the core of the Texas Interests Real Estate Advisory practice. Work includes off-market sourcing, multi-year representation of landowners and family estates through entitlement and closing, and long-horizon positioning that covers zoning, TIRZ strategy, impact-fee navigation, and infrastructure timing.

What kind of clients does Tajana work with?

Landowners and family estates dispositioning acreage, developers and operators acquiring or repositioning land, investors evaluating mixed-use and commercial opportunities, and residential clients moving into and across the Katy/Fulshear corridor. The thread across all of them is patient, multi-year strategy on real estate that does not move quickly.

Where does the firm work?

Fulshear and Katy are the home markets. The land and commercial work extends through Fort Bend and Waller Counties; residential and relocation extends into Memorial, the Energy Corridor, Sugar Land, Richmond, Rosenberg, and Brookshire.

Land. Development.Long-Term Strategy.

Q: What is Texas Interests Real Estate Advisory?

Texas Interests Real Estate Advisory is the development-oriented practice founded by Tajana Surlan, covering land acquisitions, seller representation, development coordination, and long-term land positioning across Fulshear, Katy, and the greater west Houston growth corridor. Residential and relocation services run alongside the land and development work under the same advisor.

Tajana Surlan, MBA — founder of Texas Interests Real Estate Advisory. Acquisitions, seller representation, development coordination, and long-term land positioning across Fulshear, Katy, and the greater west Houston growth corridor.

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Texas Interests Real Estate Advisory

MBA

RE/MAX Fine Properties

MWBE • Katy Area EDC

Fulshear • Katy • West Houston

Marquee Project

Fulshear Junction

A 126.9-acre mixed-use district north of FM 1093 anchoring Fulshear's downtown growth corridor. Three years of pre-development with planners, engineers, the City of Fulshear, Fort Bend County, and the Katy EDC preceded council approval.

251 single-family homes across ~100 acres

21.21 acres of commercial, restaurant, office, and a national daycare

5.3-acre detention pond gifted to the City for downtown drainage

Adjacent to Polo Ranch; first construction anticipated summer 2025

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126.9 acres • mixed-use

Approved by Fulshear City Council, May 21, 2024

The Practice

How Texas Interests Works

Acquisitions

Off-market sourcing and disciplined diligence on acreage, infill, and development-ready parcels.

Seller Representation

Multi-year representation of landowners and family estates through entitlement and closing.

Development Coordination

At the table with planners, engineers, city and county officials, and EDC partners.

Long-Term Land Positioning

Zoning, TIRZ strategy, impact-fee navigation, infrastructure timing — the patient work.

Full Services

In Her Own Words

On the Record

“While representing my seller team, I look forward to enhancing the positive transformation of the Fulshear area as we continue bringing sales tax-generating businesses, office space and other commercial entities that enhance Fulshear.”

Community Impact — Fulshear Junction

“A TIRZ becomes a magnet, it becomes a commercial magnet.”

Bisnow Houston — on TIRZ as a development tool

“Increasing those impact fees will kind of discourage the kind of attractive commercial and higher-density residential development that the city says it wants.”

Bisnow Houston — on Fulshear impact fees

In the Media

Why It Matters

Civic record. Development discipline.

Before representing developers, Tajana served on Fulshear City Council during the city’s growth years. The work on dark-sky lighting, tree preservation, and the Irene Stern Butterfly & Pollinator Garden taught the practice what good land use looks like from the inside.

Fulshear City Council

Served as an elected council member during the period that shaped Fulshear's transition from rural town to one of Texas's fastest-growing cities.

Dark Skies Ordinance

Championed a business-friendly dark-sky lighting ordinance for Fulshear — preserving the night sky, reducing glare on roads, and lowering outdoor energy use. Passed.

Tree Ordinance

Championed tree-preservation rules during a wave of new development. Did not pass at the time, but reframed the conversation around canopy and growth.

Parks Committee • HGAC Award

Helped Fulshear win a Houston-Galveston Area Council award for the Irene Stern Butterfly & Pollinator Garden — putting the city on the map for civic placemaking.

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Tajana Surlan, MBA — founder, Texas Interests Real Estate Advisory

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Where the Work Happens

West Houston Submarkets

Fulshear

From council chamber to ground-breaking — the home market.

Katy

Established west Houston growth engine.

Cross Creek Ranch

Resort-scale master-plan, premium school zoning.

Weston Lakes

Gated, golf-anchored estate community.

Cinco Ranch

Established Katy ISD luxury core.

Thought Leadership

Real Texas Dirt

“Exploring Texas through its land, people, and stories.”

A long-form publication on Texas land, the people who steward it, and the deals that shape its future. Written first-person by Tajana — not ghost-written market summaries.

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Texas

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A Tajana Surlan publication