5%-10% of collected rent ($150/mo min), a one-time placement fee, and six guarantees in writing. Median rent in the area: ~$2,397/month. Bilingual team — English & 中文.
Cinco Ranch, Firethorne, Elyson, Cross Creek Ranch and Cane Island — subdivision by subdivision, because the tax and HOA math is not the same twice.
Master-planned community homes leased and managed for long-tenure family tenants.
Bilingual support for Energy Corridor and medical-sector relocations.
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Researched October 2026. Sources: Trulia and average-rent.com listing data (Oct 2026); Doorstead Houston Metro Report (Sept 2026); Zillow Home Value Index (July 2026); Katy ISD 2026 adopted tax rate; Niche 2026 and U.S. News 2026 district rankings; BlockShopper effective tax rates.
Katy spans Harris, Fort Bend and Waller counties, so submarket spreads are wide. Ranges reflect October 2026 listing data.
| Bedroom | Rent / mo | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 3 bed, single-family | $2,000 – $2,200 | Trulia $2,060 · apartment-only data lower at $1,991 |
| 4 bed, single-family | $2,400 – $2,750 | Trulia $2,411; upper end reported by local PM firms for newer builds |
| Apartment | $2,124 | Cheapest rental type citywide (Trulia) |
| All property types | $2,288 | Katy citywide average (Trulia, Oct 2026) |
Katy ISD holds an A+ overall grade on Niche and ranks #1 among Houston-area districts for the fifth consecutive year (2026); the Texas Education Agency rates the district B. It serves 95,000–97,000+ students with a 94% graduation rate and a 15:1 student-teacher ratio. Seven Lakes HS ranks #51 in Texas (U.S. News 2026), Tompkins #73, Cinco Ranch #139. A 'Katy' mailing address spans three counties — it does not guarantee a Katy ISD campus.
Katy sits on the eastern edge of the Energy Corridor — the shortest big-employer commute in Houston's northwest suburbs. ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and the corridor's engineering firms are the anchor demand, with Memorial Hermann and Houston Methodist West adding healthcare employment. Average commute runs 31.3 minutes (Census 2024), though I-10 peak can stretch downtown runs to 60–90 minutes; many residents use the METRO Park & Ride at Grand Parkway.
Katy is driven by one thing above all else: Katy ISD. Districts like Cinco Ranch, Tompkins and Seven Lakes pull families off the Energy Corridor at a steady rate, and the tenant pool skews toward higher incomes and longer lease terms than the Houston average. Median asking rent sits at $2,397 with a 45-day median time on market and vacancy around 4.8% — tight. The subtlety is that Katy is not one market but a collection of master-planned communities, each with its own tax rate, HOA regime and price band.
| Segment | Median asking rent | Where you see it |
|---|---|---|
| 4BR / 2.5BA single-family | $2,600 | Cinco Ranch, Firethorne, Elyson |
| 3BR / 2BA single-family | $2,150 | Cinco Ranch (older sections), Memorial Parkway |
| 3BR townhome | $1,975 | Cane Island, Katy city limits |
| 5BR+ / luxury | $3,400 | Cane Island, Cross Creek Ranch, Grand Lakes |
Asking-rent bands reflect current listings and recently executed leases across our Katy portfolio and public market sources; segment medians are compiled from the two, so treat them as an indicative range rather than an appraisal. Headline market figures: Realtor.com Research (Louisiana, July 2026) and Doorstead Houston-metro market data (July 2026); HUD FY2026 Small Area Fair Market Rents for the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metro. The cards further up this page blend bedrooms and property types across our own portfolio, so they will not match a segment median exactly — your free rental analysis uses live comparables for your specific address and updates this report monthly. Get a free Katy rental analysis →
State law sets the floor. County, parish, city and private covenants stack on top of it — and in Katy the layer that catches owners out is usually the last one.
How we handle this in practice. Katy rewards owners who treat the school zone as a product feature. A four-bedroom house zoned to a top-rated campus leases faster and holds rent better than a comparable one in a lagging attendance zone — and zones shift as Katy ISD opens new campuses. We re-verify the zone for every address before every listing cycle, because a stale zone claim is both bad marketing and a fair-housing problem waiting to happen.
Regulations change and municipal desks read them differently street by street — always confirm the current requirement for the specific address with the city, parish or county before you rely on it. We run compliance for every property we manage, including registration renewals, annual alarm checks and the paperwork trail that decides a deposit dispute.
Three engagements from our Katy portfolio. Addresses are withheld at the owners' request; figures are as executed.
An owner who had it vacant at $2,450 for six weeks. We re-verified the attendance zone, corrected the listing, re-shot the photographs at the right time of day, and had 14 applications in the first weekend — leasing at $2,650 on a 24-month term.
A long-tenure family tenant who could have bought. We ran a renewal analysis against live comps, held the increase to roughly 3%, and kept a tenant whose total lifetime cost to the owner is far below the cost of a turn.
New construction in a MUD-backed community. We explained the MUD and PID assessments in writing before the application so there was no surprise at the tax stage, and leased it twelve days after the certificate of occupancy.
Rent and vacancy for this city, guides by ZIP code, and every monthly report we have published for Katy.
Published monthly since May 2026. Figures are statistical estimates from public sources (Zillow, Realtor.com, RentCast, HUD, U.S. Census ACS) and are general information, not legal, tax or investment advice.
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