Julie Q.'s Blog

If you think Firethorne's tennis coach is just an ace on the tennis court, you couldn't be more wrong. Resident athlete/sports coach Chris Dante didn't even take up the sport until he was 30, after excelling in baseball, (in 1988 he made it as far as the Olympic Trials), basketball, (City Univers...

According to Drew Meyers, Zillow Business Development Manager, "When agents try to differentiate their listings from others or make the homes they represent really pop, home staging has gone from "nice-to-have" to a "must-have" strategy in the selling process." I couldn't agree more! To separate ...

Katy’s Grand Lakes Master Planned Community residents are invited to the Grand Lakes First Annual Fourth of July Celebration on Saturday, July 3, from 4 to 6 p.m. The festivities will be held at 3650 Hollow Trace Drive by the Lazy River Pool. Activities include: Mike Amabile and the Run Over Twic...

In the annual Newsweek Magazine rankings of high schools nationwide, four Katy high schools, Cinco Ranch, Seven Lakes, Taylor and Katy, again scored high enough to make the list’s top high schools. Last year Seven Lakes scored a bit higher than Cinco Ranch but, this year, the table’s have turned ...

It"s nearly impossible for the average citizen to keep track of all events directly impacting housing and mortgage markets.  Professional mortgage lenders monitor the live trading of Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS). Government and conventional mortgage rates are directly based upon MBS. So...wha...

What’s the difference between Westheimer Lakes North and Westheimer Lakes South? In a sentence: Students residing in Westheimer Lakes North attend the Katy Independent School District while children living in Westheimer Lakes South are zoned to the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District. ...

Mortgage Insurance Premiums Increase April 5th @ http://www.onlykaty.com/all/mortgage-insurance-premiums-increase-april-5th/

Information provided by Home Warranty of America Since January 1st, the EPA has required R-410A refrigerant, also known by the brand names of Puron, SUVA and Gentron AZ-20, in newly manufactured air conditioners and heat pump systems. What does this mean to you as a Katy home owner? It means that...

  Cinco Ranch was the nation’s number one master-planned community (MPC) for new-home sales in 2009, according to a report by RCLCO, an independent real estate advisory firm. With 887 new-home sales in 2009, Cinco Ranch was one of only two Houston MPCs on RCLCO’s top 10 list to report a sales inc...

Zip Code 77450 is a very tough one to analyze. There is an extremely wide-range of home values; houses are appraised below $100,000 all the way to over a million. Unlike other Katy Zip Codes, when looking at 77450 statistics, I must reject “average” pricing. Due to the huge variance, the data is ...