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By Deb Dahlberg - Rowland, Deb Sells Texas!
(Hart Land Real Estate)
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When I moved to Texasas a horse breeder and a horse property specialist  I was eager to see what kind of show facilities are available.  I joined the Gulf Coast Paint Horse Association and showed my paint gelding Jigsaw at the show facility in Katy.  It is awesome!  It was an easy drive from the ...

By Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty, Florida Space Coast Homes
(Waves Realty)
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Construction has started on the final section in Trendmaker's Green Trails subdivision. The section, called The Enclave at Green Trails, will be a gated and boast 23 homesites. Trendmaker has developed and is building all the homes in this section. The prices will start in the $500,000's. Many la...

By Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty, Florida Space Coast Homes
(Waves Realty)
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Construction on Kingsland Blvd from the Grand Parkway to the Katy Mills Mall has begun. When completed the extension will help alleviate traffic from the neighborhoods on the northern part of Falcon Ranch and Falcon Rock. This project will also help traffic patterns on the feeder roads of the Gra...

By Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty, Florida Space Coast Homes
(Waves Realty)
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The new Shops at Bella Terra on the southwest corner of The Grand Parkway and Westpark Tollway is set to open in April of 2008. Super Wal-Mart and Kohl's are the anchor stores that will initially open. Others who have signed on to do business at the shops are; Petsmart, Ross, Famous Footwear, Wac...

By Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty, Florida Space Coast Homes
(Waves Realty)
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Here is a schedule for the Middle School (WoodCreek and Greenhouse) zoning meetings. They had been missing from the katyisd.org site so we called an got the school board to e-mail us a copy. This meeting is not to be missed by anyone who is zoned to Beck Jr High School. The November 8th meeting w...

By Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty, Florida Space Coast Homes
(Waves Realty)
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The Katy ISD is considering rezoning children who are presently zoned to Beck Jr High School well east of the Grand Parkway out to the new Woodcreek Reserve Jr High School in the far western part of the school district. The idea behind the moves is to ease some of the children out of Beck and mak...

By David Slavin, CDPE, ABR, SRES Keller Williams Premier
(Keller Williams Premier)
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                                             The Katy Chamber of Commerce has been hosting this event for 27 years.  Don't miss this great party!  October 13 & 14 you will enjoy the excitement and family fun with three stages of continuous live entertainment, craft and food booths, a carnival and...

By Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty, Florida Space Coast Homes
(Waves Realty)
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The 2007 Rice Harvest Festival is coming on Oct 13th-14th. The festival which began in 1978 is the largest festival in the Katy area. Included in this years event will be the parade, food, crafts and entertainment. The related Wild Wild West Pageant will be held at the Club at Falcon Point. Go to...

By Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty, Florida Space Coast Homes
(Waves Realty)
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Many people move to the Katy area because they are relocating within the city...or are coming here from out of town and have heard we have great schools or have wonderful medical facilities. While this in our opinion is all true, we feel all potential buyers should have an area tour before they b...

By Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty, Florida Space Coast Homes
(Waves Realty)
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We are always asked...what is the right time of year to sell? Is one season better than the next? What months should I NOT be on the market? These are all good questions, but it is hard to give any kind of definite answer. First: any time of year can be a good time...we sell homes all 12 months, ...

By David Slavin, CDPE, ABR, SRES Keller Williams Premier
(Keller Williams Premier)
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                                                                  School is now in session and the enrollment of Katy Independent School District is up.  KISD now has 53,634 students with 25,255 of those students enrolled in the 29 elementary schools.  This is proof of the growth of young familie...

By Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty, Florida Space Coast Homes
(Waves Realty)
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Spring Green Blvd in the master planned community of Cinco Ranch is now open all the way to FM1093. This route will give easy access to the Westpark Tollway from the sections of Cinco Ranch that surround Cinco Ranch Blvd in the western part of the subdivision. Spring Green should help ease traffi...

By Robert Bob Gilbert, Your Katy TX ( West of Houston) Real Estate Expert
(Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Anderson Properties)
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Friday evening rain was falling the entire time we drove to my step-son's varsity football game featuring Seven Lakes versus Clements at Mercer stadium in Sugarland, Texas. All of us were really excited to be going to a new year of high school football games and we looked forward to see what prog...

By Stacy and Jackie Jones, Houston/Katy Realtors
(The Jones Team)
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Katy will be the sight of the 2008 men's and women's basketball tournament for the Southland Conference.  The conference announced today that the sight of the tournament will be the Leonard E. Merrell Center.  The tournament will be held from March 12-16, 2008.Owned by the Katy Independent School...

By Robert Bob Gilbert, Your Katy TX ( West of Houston) Real Estate Expert
(Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Anderson Properties)
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This weekend will begin a new high school football season. I am particularly looking forward to Friday evening as my step-son plays high school football for Seven Lakes High School here in Katy, TX. We actually live in the Grand lakes subdivision which is part of the Katy school district. Last se...

By Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty, Florida Space Coast Homes
(Waves Realty)
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It is that time of year when we send out Kids back to school! For Mona and I this is the first year (as our son Anthony is 5 years old)! I have been getting quite a few questions from new area residents about what to do...especially about how to catch the buses. http://www.katyisd.org/has a bus s...

By David Slavin, CDPE, ABR, SRES Keller Williams Premier
(Keller Williams Premier)
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      This list from the Fort Bend Star Newspaper is the ratings of all Katy ISD schools after the TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) testing.  The TAKS test is an assessment of students testing scores in grades 3 - 11 as well as the individual student group.  The groups consist of:A...

By Robyn Jones
(Robyn Jones Homes)
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Beatiful Katy What can I say about it?  It's in wonderful proximity to Houston - in some areas sharing a dividing line and in other areas sharing the I-10, the Westpark Tollway or Westheimer.  Whatever way you look at the connection, it is a beautiful marriage of convenience.  Houston offering ev...

By Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty, Florida Space Coast Homes
(Waves Realty)
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With Hurricane Dean bearing down on the Texas coast I thought it might be time to talk about flood control and the Katy area. In the Katy area, a considerable amount of time and money has been spent on area flood control. Our Local MUDs (Municipal Utility District) and WCIDs (Water Control) do a ...

By Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty, Florida Space Coast Homes
(Waves Realty)
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We specialize in Katy and West Houston. We get many calls and e-mails asking us to represent clients who want to purchase a home in the Woodlands, or Downtown, or Kingwood, or....well you get the idea. We feel that we are the AREA EXPERTS for KATY. We know what is happening, what will happen, and...

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