Four ZIP codes. Three counties. One agent across every price tier.

Start with the ZIP, because the four behave like four markets. 77494 on the Fort Bend side carries the highest incomes and home values, with a median owner-reported value of $476,200. 77450 is the established section built around 1994, home to Cinco Ranch's original phases. 77493 is the northern growth area with a median year built of 2014 and most of the current construction. 77449 on the eastern Harris County side is the most affordable at $255,900. After that it is community by community, because Cinco Ranch near $565,000 and Elyson starting in the $230,000s are not the same purchase in any respect. Tom walks the ZIP and the community before you tour, not after.

Buyers have more leverage than at any point in several years. Active listings were up roughly 10 percent year over year in June 2026, days on market sat near 41, and more than a third of Katy listings have taken at least one price reduction. The gap between the $389,999 median list price and the $337,250 median sold price tells you sellers are still starting from last year's comparables. That is a normalisation from an unsustainable pace, not a structural decline. For a well-priced, well-located home with a clean flood history, the case holds: population growth continues, Energy Corridor employment is stable, and the infrastructure work underway expands access rather than restricting it.

Because it is the corridor's primary demand driver. Katy ISD holds an A+ grade from Niche and has been ranked the top district in the Houston area in that publication's rankings, though rankings are one organisation's methodology and change annually. Two practical things matter more than the ranking. First, the district spans Harris, Fort Bend and Waller counties, and the district boundary is not the same shape as the Katy city limits, so a Katy mailing address does not guarantee Katy ISD. Second, the district rezones as new campuses open. Verify the assignment at txschools.gov by exact address before it becomes the reason you chose the house.

About 70 percent of Katy transactions land between $300,000 and $700,000, and in that band you are typically looking at an updated three or four bedroom home of 2,500 to 4,000 square feet, often with a pool. Below roughly $300,000 you are in starter homes and properties needing updates, still inside Katy ISD assignments in communities like Cimarron and Governors Place. Above roughly $600,000 the market shifts to estate-style homes on larger lots, custom builds and gated communities, running to around $1,500,000. Tom has closed in all three tiers, and each one negotiates differently.

Less bad than the distance suggests, and it depends heavily on which ZIP you land in. The Energy Corridor is the nearest major employment center to Katy and it remains one of the strongest suburban office submarkets in the country, with vacancy near 7.4 percent against roughly 24 percent for Houston overall. In 77450, closest in, 25.5 percent of workers travel 45 minutes or more each way. In 77493 that rises to 35.1 percent. Remote and hybrid work has also changed the calculation for a large share of buyers here, with 23.8 percent of 77494 workers reporting they work from home. Drive your actual route at your actual departure time before you commit to a community.

He has worked this corridor since 2000 across every price tier in it, from a first purchase near $295,000 to a gated-community property at roughly $1,500,000, which means the strategy you get is built for your tier rather than recycled from a different one. He tracks the things that move Katy values before they reach closed-sale data: rezoning announcements, builder activity, Grand Parkway work and Energy Corridor absorption. He reads flood designations and elevation certificates rather than glancing at them. And he caps his active client list at seven, so the person who catches a county line or an attendance boundary is the person you hired. Licensed by TREC since 2000, with the ABR, CRS and SRES designations.