From the daisto the deal.

Tajana Surlan founded Texas Interests Real Estate Advisory to do one thing well: position land in west Houston over multi-year horizons. The firm is a certified MWBE and a Katy Area EDC member. Her brokerage license is held with RE/MAX Fine Properties; the advisory work is the practice.

Long before representing developers, she sat on Fulshear City Council during the city’s transition from rural town to one of the fastest-growing cities in Texas. She championed the Dark Skies Ordinance — a business-friendly lighting code that passed — and the Tree Ordinance, which did not pass but reframed how the city talks about canopy and growth. On the Parks Committee, she helped Fulshear win a Houston-Galveston Area Council award for the Irene Stern Butterfly & Pollinator Garden.

That civic record is the why behind the practice. Sitting through public hearings on impact fees, drainage, lighting, and tree preservation teaches an advisor what actually decides whether a project ships — and what landowners are really selling when they sell. It’s why Fulshear Junction’s three-year pre-development with planners, engineers, the City of Fulshear, Fort Bend County, and the Katy EDC produced a unanimous City Council approval in May 2024.

The work spans the spectrum: acreage acquisition, multi-year seller representation, mixed-use entitlement, off-market value-add (an RV park repositioned into an occupied Tiny House village), commercial pad sites, and the residential and relocation business that runs alongside it — same advisor, same standard of care.

Outside the deal sheet, Tajana writes Real Texas Dirt on Substack — long-form on Texas land, the people who steward it, and the deals that shape its future. She supports the Fulshear Historical Association and remains active in the West Katy Netweavers, which she founded.