We Buy Houses in Katy, TX — Cash Offers in 24 Hours

Katy is two markets, not one. The first is the western half— Cinco Ranch, Cross Creek Ranch, Cane Island, Falcon Ranch, the master-planned communities that drove the area's growth from a small farming town to one of the fastest-expanding suburbs in Texas. These homes are mostly post-2005 construction, sit on smaller MUD-district lots, and trade quickly when they're move-in ready.

They also carry the highest property tax burden in Greater Houston — Katy's MUD overlays push effective rates above 3% in many subdivisions, which means a typical $425K home costs $13,000 a year just to hold.

The second Katy is the eastern half— the original town center, the 1970s and 80s subdivisions off Mason Road, Old Katy proper. These homes are 30 to 50 years old, sit on larger lots, and have everything a 50-year-old slab-on-grade Texas house tends to have: foundation movement from the Cinco Ranch clay layer, original HVAC at end of life, roof past warranty, kitchens and baths from the Bush 41 era. They're harder to list traditionally because the buyer pool comparing them to Cinco Ranch new builds at a similar price point usually picks the new build.

The seller mix in Katy reflects both halves. Western Katy generates corporate-relocation sellers — Energy Corridor layoffs, transfers from the Westchase office parks, families reposting to a different ExxonMobil or BP location. Eastern Katy generates inherited-property sellers — the original Katy buyers from the 1970s and 80s are now in their 70s and 80s, and adult children inheriting from out of state are the most common path. We see both every week. The cash sale works for both because it removes the comparison-against-new-construction problem entirely.