Cinco Ranch, A Star Among Master-Planned Communities
Cinco Ranch of Katy Texas is, without a doubt, one of the premier master-planned communities in the nation. The community is a development of Newland Communities, the largest private developer of premier master-planned communities in the US and was begun in 1991. Newland Communities has a solid and impressive forty-year history of excellence, with master-planned communities currently under development in fourteen states. Builder and Developer magazine recently awarded the company the prestigious title of 2010 “Developer of the Year.”
The highly-regarded real estate advisory firm Robert Charles Lesser and Company (RCLCO) has, for sixteen years, tracked master-planned communities throughout the nation. Their reports have become reliable snapshots of the nation’s hottest housing markets in the country. In its March 2010 annual report, RCLCO awarded Newland Communities five of the top fifteen spots in the nation, ranking two Newland communities in the top four. In the report, Cinco Ranch Katy Texas was ranked the number one master-planned community in the country.
Cinco Ranch is situated on land that once belonged to legendary Texas cattleman Bassett Blakeley. Named after the ranch created by the five partners who purchased the property from Blakeley, Cinco Ranch now consists of over 7,600 acres and is larger in both land area and population than many cities and towns in Texas. The Cinco Ranch community offers its residents more facilities and amenities than found in many cities. There are numerous shopping centers and upscale town centers such as La Centerra and Villagio. Within the boundaries of Cinco Ranch Katy Texas are professional office buildings, grocery stores, churches, fitness centers, a library, and restaurants offering every type of cuisine, from fast food to fine dining. Nearby are Katy Mills Mall and Cinemark, as well as first–rate medical facilities and hospitals, including Katy Memorial Hermann and Christus St. Catherine. In Cinco Ranch of Katy Texas, residents enjoy a lifestyle around amenities such as:
- Ten recreation centers with swimming pools, including the Water Park, Beach Club and Lake House
- Miles of scenic hiking and biking trails throughout the community
- Numerous neighborhood parks and playgrounds
- The first-class 18-hole Cinco Ranch Golf Club
- Generous open spaces, water features, and five lakes stocked with fish
Residents of Cinco Ranch Katy also enjoy the advantage of living in the highly acclaimed Katy Independent School District. Fifteen of the sixteen Katy ISD schools serving Katy-area residents were rated “Exemplary” in 2010 by the Texas Education Agency, with ten of those schools located in Cinco Ranch. The concept of neighborhood schools is alive and well in Cinco Ranch Texas, with schools providing the finest in education and excellent teacher-student ratios. According to Heather Gould, marketing director for Newland Communities “Outstanding schools are a major reason why Cinco Ranch is the number one community in the nation for new-home sales.”
First and foremost, Cinco Ranch Katy Texas is about HOMES. Since its inception in 1991, the foundation of Cinco Ranch’s success has been to create an ideal environment where people want to live. In Cinco Ranch, Newland Communities has executed that vision to perfection. The businesses, services and transportation infrastructure in place offer Cinco Ranch residents virtually everything they could want or need right at their doorsteps. Additionally, to satisfy all types of interests and activities, such as professional sports, the finest theater and museums, or world-class shopping at the Galleria Mall, Houston is a short, pleasant drive via the West Park Toll Road or Interstate 10.
Today, Cinco Ranch Katy Texas continues its rich history of being the place people want to live and does an outstanding job of offering something for everyone’s needs and desires. The community is built on the concept of “neighborhood villages” of varying size lots with a wide range of homes available of differing sizes, styles, features and price ranges. These “villages” artfully blend open spaces, nature trails, hike and bike trails and amenities into one community.
Currently, new homes are offered in ten different “villages”. Cinco Ranch Katy is served by eighteen selected home builders, ensuring a wide selection of styles, floor plans and features. Neighborhoods are pleasing in appearance, thanks in part to an active and involved home owners’ association, with the grounds and homes beautifully maintained. Pride of ownership is evident throughout Cinco Ranch and home buyers may easily find the ideal home to meet their specific needs and reflect their individual personalities.
Lot sizes range from widths of 45 feet to 90 feet and new home prices range from the $160,000’s to over $1,000,000. Living space in these new homes ranges from approximately 1,600 square feet to over 5,000 square feet. Also available in Cinco Ranch Katy Texas are custom homes built by some of the most highly respected custom home builders in the Houston Metropolitan Area. These include Partners in Building, Tommy Bailey Custom Homes, Frankel Building Group and Ronny Carroll Custom Homes.
Whatever your housing needs and whatever the budget for your new home, you owe it to yourself to look at Cinco Ranch Katy. Chances are that you, like many other discerning buyers, will decide to call Cinco Ranch home.
