Waller Realtor & Real Estate Agent — Your Guide to Waller, TX 77484
I’m Kevan Pewitt, a Waller REALTOR® and broker-owner of Houston Prime Realty, and this is your starting point for Waller, TX: the city, the market, the taxes, and the schools. Waller is a small incorporated city on US-290, about 44 road miles northwest of Downtown Houston, where the Hockley corridor gives way to farmland. Most homes sold under a “Waller, TX” address today sit outside the city limits in new MUD communities, and that one fact changes the tax bill, the utilities, and sometimes the county.
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A Waller mailing address can be inside the city, in an unincorporated MUD subdivision, or on acreage, and each one comes with different taxes and utilities. I check the parcel’s taxing units before you write an offer.
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Working with a Waller REALTOR®
Search for real estate agents in Waller, TX and you’ll mostly find builder sales offices and national portals, so here’s who you’d be working with: me, personally. I’m a Waller real estate agent, a REALTOR®, and the broker who owns Houston Prime Realty; you can read my background on my About page. Buyers can start with my Buying guide, which lays out each stage from pre-approval to keys, and sellers with how I price and market homes.
I represent buyers and sellers across Waller and the US-290 corridor. For a buyer, that means confirming whether a home is inside the city, which county it’s in, and which MUD it pays before you fall for it, then reviewing the builder’s contract (which is not the standard TREC resale contract) and negotiating for you. For a seller, it means pricing against the right comparable sales, because in-city resale, new subdivisions, and acreage behave like three separate markets inside one ZIP code.
I hold the Certified Residential Specialist (CRS) designation, I’ve been named a Five Star Professional real estate agent 11 times as featured in Texas Monthly, and clients rate me 5.0 out of 5.0 across 231 verified surveys on HAR.com.
How buyer representation works in 2026:
Since the National Association of REALTORS® settlement took effect in August 2024, and under Texas law since January 1, 2026, a real estate buyer’s agent’s compensation is set in a written agreement before we start touring. That matters even more with new construction, where many builders require your real estate agent to register you on your first visit. I’ll walk you through how it works on our first call, before you sign anything. The details are in how real estate buyer’s agents get paid in Texas.
In this guide
Waller, TX at a Glance: Quick Facts
- Kevan Pewitt is a REALTOR® and real estate agent serving Waller, TX, and has held a Texas real estate broker license since 1989.
- Kevan Pewitt is the broker-owner of Houston Prime Realty. Houston Prime Realty is an independent real estate brokerage based in northwest Houston, on the US-290 corridor that runs out to Waller.
- The City of Waller lies entirely inside Waller ISD, which the Texas Education Agency rated “B” for 2026, up from “C” in 2025.
- On a $300,000 home, 2025 adopted tax rates come to about $6,500 a year inside the city on the Waller County side, compared with about $9,400 to $9,700 in a typical MUD subdivision outside the city, before exemptions. Attwater, inside the city and in a MUD, ran about $9,200.
- Waller is about 44 road miles from Downtown Houston via US-290, roughly 45 minutes in free-flowing traffic and longer at rush hour; the Grand Parkway is about 16 miles and 17 minutes away.
- Dellrose and The Grand Prairie, two master-planned communities on the Hockley side of US-290, are both zoned to Waller ISD and feed into Waller High School.
- Most single-family homes for sale under a Waller, TX (77484) address are 2025–2026 new construction, and the Waller market area carried 7.0 months of supply in October 2026, per HAR.
Where “Waller” Starts and Stops
“Waller” can mean four different things, and listing sites rarely say which. The City of Waller is a small incorporated city of 2,682 people at the 2020 Census, covering about 3.7 square miles along US-290 and the rail line. Voters approved incorporation in 1947. ZIP code 77484 is far larger, with about 13,400 residents in 2020, roughly five times the city’s population. Waller County is the county, with its seat in Hempstead. Waller ISD is the school district, which reaches well beyond the city into Hockley and unincorporated Harris County.
Most of the city sits in Waller County, and a strip along its eastern edge is in Harris County. Most of the new subdivisions marketed as Waller are outside the city limits and financed through MUDs or water districts, and a few use the Hockley ZIP, 77447. Attwater, Beacon Hill, and Oakwood Estates are the exceptions: all three are inside the city limits, and their tax bills carry a MUD line as well as the city line. Oakwood Estates is on the city’s Harris County side. The quickest way to know what you’re buying is the parcel’s list of taxing units on the Waller County Appraisal District or HCAD record: if “City of Waller” isn’t on it, the home is outside the city.
Waller communities in red and nearby Hockley communities in navy, along US-290 between Prairie View and the Grand Parkway. The numbers match the list below. Each pin marks the center of a community’s recorded plats, not its boundary or the city limits. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Waller communities (red pins)
- Wildrye
- Oakberry Trails
- Attwater
- Oakwood Estates
- Beacon Hill
- Mustang Meadows
- Dellrose
- The Grand Prairie
- Trails at Cochran Ranch
- Lakeview
Nearby Hockley communities (navy pins)
- Bauer Landing & Cypress Trails
- Cypress Green
- Everly
- Becker Fields, Meadows, Trace & Landing
- Redbud
- Windrow
- Ranch Country & Cypresswood Trails
- Hockley Meadows
- Jubilee
- Stone Creek Ranch
- Bridgeland Creekland (Hockley ZIP)
The Waller Real Estate Market
In HAR‘s October 2026 market-area report, single-family homes around Waller sold at a median price of about $328,000, sold homes averaged about 70 days on the market, and the area carried 7.0 months of supply, with listings up about 2% from a year earlier. That’s a buyer’s market, which puts buyers in a good position to negotiate on price, closing costs, or a builder’s rate buydown.
Prices are holding while homes take longer to sell because most of the inventory is new construction, and builders are competing for the same buyers as resale sellers. The median rent for a house was $1,850 in August 2026. Figures are from HAR’s Waller market-area report for October 2026; the market area is wider than ZIP 77484 and mixes in-city resale, new subdivisions, and acreage, so ask me for numbers on a specific community.
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Homes by Community Around Waller
Waller itself isn’t a master-planned community. The city grew around its rail line and Main Street, and it has older in-town streets and business parks along US-290. Most of the planned communities are outside the city limits (Attwater, Beacon Hill, and Oakwood Estates, all inside the city, are the exceptions), and the two I watch most closely on the Waller ISD side of the corridor are Dellrose and The Grand Prairie.
- Dellrose — a master-planned community north of US-290 at Bauer Road with its own Bryan Lowe Elementary, feeding Waller Junior High and Waller High School. Read the Dellrose guide → · See Dellrose homes for sale →
- The Grand Prairie — EMBER’s master-planned community south of US-290 off Warren Ranch Road, in unincorporated Harris County with a Hockley address, where every home is new construction. It’s zoned to Holleman Elementary, Waller Junior High, and Waller High School. Read the Grand Prairie guide → · See The Grand Prairie homes for sale →
Closer to the city, the subdivisions selling under a Waller address include Wildrye (Ashton Woods, Chesmar, David Weekley, Drees, Highland, and CastleRock, in unincorporated Harris County with a Waller address), Attwater (Empire, Chesmar, and Brohn, inside the city limits; Chesmar’s “55s” and “65’s” collections are named for lot widths, not ages), Oakwood Estates (K. Hovnanian, Ashton Woods, and DRB homes around a lake of about 28 acres on Field Store Road, inside the city limits on the Harris County side), Mustang Meadows (Brohn and Chesmar), Trails at Cochran Ranch (LGI), Oakberry Trails, and Lakeview, where the last estate lots are selling. As of September 2026, new homes across these communities ran from about the low $200,000s to the high $400,000s, with Lakeview’s estate builds well above that. There’s also a steady resale market in acreage around town, from 1-acre homesites to 5-plus-acre tracts, often on a private well and septic system. Builder lineups and pricing change weekly; call or text me at 281-500-7077 for current incentives on any of these.
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Property Taxes in Waller — Check the Parcel Before the Price
A Waller tax bill turns on whether the home is inside the city limits and whether it sits in a MUD, and most listings show neither. Using the 2025 adopted rates per $100 of value, before exemptions:
- Inside the city, Waller County side: about $2.17, or roughly $6,500 a year on a $300,000 home. This includes the City of Waller’s $0.4464 rate.
- Inside the city, Harris County side: about $2.24, or roughly $6,700 a year, because the Harris County units run higher than Waller County’s.
- A typical MUD subdivision outside the city: about $3.12 to $3.22, or roughly $9,400 to $9,700 a year. There’s no city line, but the MUD or water district rate is larger.
- Inside the city and in a MUD (Attwater, Beacon Hill, Oakwood Estates): the bill carries both the city line and a MUD line. Attwater’s 2025 total was about $3.07, or roughly $9,200 a year on a $300,000 home; Oakwood Estates’ was $3.227928 per $100, or roughly $9,700.
Every parcel in these examples also pays Waller ISD ($1.0626) and Waller-Harris ESD 200 ($0.10), which funds fire and EMS. Owner-occupants get a $140,000 school-district homestead exemption, or $200,000 combined for owners 65 and older or disabled, which Texas voters approved in November 2025 and which applies starting with the 2025 tax year; filing is free through the appraisal district. The city has proposed a higher rate for 2026, so I’ll confirm the adopted number on any home you’re weighing. Rates are 2025 adopted rates from the Waller County and Harris County appraisal and tax offices and vary by address. This is general information, not tax advice.
The trade for the city’s tax line is city service: homes inside the limits get city water, sewer, natural gas, and trash pickup and don’t carry MUD debt. On new construction anywhere, the first year’s bill is often based on the land alone, so set your escrow from the finished home’s value. My post on what a MUD district is in Texas explains how those rates work and why they tend to fall over time.
Waller ISD Schools
The City of Waller sits entirely inside Waller ISD, which serves about 10,900 students on 12 campuses and earned a “B” from the Texas Education Agency for 2026, up from “C” in 2025. McReavy Elementary, the district’s campus inside Bridgeland, earned its only “A”; Waller High School and five elementaries, including Bryan Lowe and Cure, were rated “B”; and both junior highs plus Holleman and Roberts Road elementaries were rated “C.” Mary Alice Cure Elementary opened in August 2025, and the district’s second high school, Warren Ranch High School, is scheduled to open in 2028 off Katy-Hockley Road, which will redraw high school zones. Some outlying 77484 addresses fall in Hempstead, Royal, or Katy ISD instead, so always confirm the campuses for a specific address with the Waller ISD locator and verify ratings at txschools.gov.
To shop by school, each of these pages shows the homes for sale zoned to that Waller ISD campus:
- High and junior high: Waller High School · Waller Junior High · Schultz Junior High
- Elementary: Holleman · Fields Store · Cure · H.T. Jones · Turlington · Roberts Road · Bryan Lowe · McReavy
For ratings, feeder patterns, and the neighborhoods each campus serves, see my Waller ISD school directory.
Flood Risk and Other Due Diligence
Flood risk starts with geography. Waller sits near the headwaters of Cypress Creek, which begins where Snake Creek and Mound Creek meet about nine miles southeast of town. The FEMA flood study for Waller County notes that no flood control structures exist in the City of Waller, and a 2012 state-funded study of the upper Cypress Creek watershed evaluated drainage options for the city. Risk varies parcel by parcel, so for any home I pull the FEMA flood map panel, the seller’s flood disclosure and claims history, and an elevation certificate if one exists.
Rural tracts may rely on a private well, septic system, and propane, so on acreage I build a well inspection and septic inspection into the option period. Which utilities a home uses, and who provides them, is covered in Setting Up Utilities in Waller below.
Living in Waller
Waller keeps a small-town feel: a grid of streets around Main Street and Business 290, City Hall on Farr Street, and the Melanee Smith Memorial Library on Saunders Street, with farmland and acreage all around. Prairie View A&M University is next door in Prairie View, and the Waller County Fair & Rodeo runs each fall at the county fairgrounds in Hempstead. For bigger shopping, most residents head southeast on US-290 toward Cypress and the Grand Parkway, where there’s an H-E-B and the growing medical campus of Memorial Hermann Cypress and Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital.
Waller City Hall on Farr Street, where in-city water, sewer, gas, and trash accounts are opened in person.
The Waller Feed Store, a live-music venue in downtown Waller.
The commute is the main trade-off. In free-flowing traffic from the City of Waller, it’s about 17 minutes to the Grand Parkway, 38 minutes to the Energy Corridor, and 45 minutes to Downtown, and US-290 is essentially the only route in. Drive it at the hour you’d commute before you commit.
| From central Waller to | Distance | Free-flow drive |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Parkway (TX-99) at US-290 | ~16 mi | ~17 min |
| Beltway 8 at US-290 | ~27 mi | ~28 min |
| Energy Corridor (I-10 at Eldridge, via TX-99) | ~36 mi | ~38 min |
| Downtown Houston | ~44 mi | ~45 min |
| Texas Medical Center | ~46 mi | ~50 min |
| Bush Intercontinental (IAH) | ~45 mi | ~50 min |
Free-flow estimates measured from US-290 at Main Street in the City of Waller, September 2026; peak-hour times run longer.
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Setting Up Utilities in Waller
Setting up utilities in Waller depends on one question: is the home inside the City of Waller city limits? Many homes with a “Waller, TX 77484” mailing address sit outside the city, in subdivisions with their own water district. Check your property’s record at the appraisal district before you start calling. If “City of Waller” appears among its taxing units, you’re in the city.
Inside the city: water, sewer, gas and trash from one place. The City of Waller (wallertexas.gov) runs water, sewer, natural gas and trash for homes in the city limits. New accounts are opened in person at City Hall on Farr Street, so bring your ID and closing documents. After that, you can pay online at wallertx.municipalonlinepayments.com. Trash is collected by Republic Services under the city’s contract and billed on your city utility bill. Homes outside the city are usually served by a municipal utility district (MUD) or water district, or by a private well and septic system.
Electricity: check which kind of area you’re in. Most of the city is in Texas’s deregulated market. There you choose your own retail electric provider at PowerToChoose.org, and CenterPoint Energy (centerpointenergy.com) owns the lines and handles outages. Much of rural Waller County is served by San Bernard Electric Cooperative (sbec.org), a member-owned co-op, and you can’t shop for a provider there. A quick test: if PowerToChoose shows no plans for your address, you’re in co-op territory.
Natural gas. In the city, gas comes from the City of Waller’s own gas system. It’s regulated, so there’s nothing to shop for, and you set it up with your water account. Outside the city, many homes are all-electric or use propane, so confirm what your specific house has.
Internet & TV. Cable from Xfinity and 5G home internet from T-Mobile and Verizon reach much of the area. AT&T Fiber is available in parts of town, and satellite (Starlink, Viasat, HughesNet) covers everywhere. Fiber changes block by block, so check a specific address on the FCC National Broadband Map (broadbandmap.fcc.gov).
HOA. The city itself has no homeowners association, and most older homes in town don’t have one. Newer subdivisions around Waller often do. You can look up any Texas association’s management company at hoa.texas.gov.
After you close. File your homestead exemption for free with the Waller County Appraisal District at waller-cad.org. If your home is on the Harris County side of town, file with hcad.org instead. You never need to pay a company to file it for you. City of Waller property taxes are collected by the Waller ISD tax office (wallerisd.net), and county taxes are collected by the Waller County Tax Office (co.waller.tx.us) or the Harris County Tax Office (hctax.net).
Who provides your water, trash and gas can change from one neighborhood to the next. When you’re buying in Waller, I’ll hand you a printable move-in sheet for your specific neighborhood with every number to call.
Utility providers, districts, and coverage vary by address and change over time — verify for your specific home before relying on any of the above. As of September 2026. Not legal or tax advice.
Quick Answers
How do I choose a real estate agent in Waller, TX?
Ask each real estate agent questions only someone who works Waller can answer: is this address inside the City of Waller, which county is the parcel in, which MUD or water district does it pay, and which Waller ISD campuses is it zoned to? Then ask to see the comparable sales behind any price they quote, and read verified client reviews on a third-party site like HAR.com. I’m Kevan Pewitt, a Waller REALTOR® and broker-owner of Houston Prime Realty, and I’m glad to be one of the people you interview. My full checklist is in how to choose a REALTOR® in Houston.
What county is Waller, TX in?
Both Waller County and Harris County. Most of the City of Waller is in Waller County, and a strip along its eastern edge is in Harris County. Many homes with a Waller mailing address are outside the city altogether, in unincorporated Waller County or, as in Wildrye, unincorporated Harris County. The appraisal district record for the specific parcel settles which county it’s in.
Where is Waller, TX, and how far is it from Houston?
Waller is on US-290 about 44 road miles northwest of Downtown Houston, past Cypress and Hockley and just southeast of Prairie View and Hempstead. In free-flowing traffic from the City of Waller it’s about 45 minutes to Downtown and 17 minutes to the Grand Parkway; rush-hour trips take longer.
Is a Waller, TX address inside the City of Waller?
Often it isn’t. ZIP code 77484 had about 13,400 residents in 2020, while the city itself had 2,682, and most of the newer subdivisions sold as Waller are outside the city limits. Attwater, Beacon Hill, and Oakwood Estates are exceptions: all three are inside the city, and their tax bills carry both the city line and a MUD line. If “City of Waller” appears among the parcel’s taxing units at the appraisal district, the home is inside the city and pays the city tax rate and gets city utilities.
What are property taxes in Waller, TX?
Using 2025 adopted rates, a home inside the city on the Waller County side pays about $2.17 per $100 of value, or roughly $6,500 a year on $300,000 before exemptions. A typical MUD subdivision outside the city runs about $3.12 to $3.22 per $100, or roughly $9,400 to $9,700 a year. Inside the city and in a MUD, as in Attwater, the bill carries both lines: Attwater’s 2025 total was about $3.07 per $100. Owner-occupants can claim a $140,000 school homestead exemption, and the adopted rate should always be checked for the specific address.
What school district is Waller, TX in?
The City of Waller is entirely inside Waller ISD, which the Texas Education Agency rated “B” for 2026. Waller ISD’s second high school, Warren Ranch High School, is scheduled to open in 2028. Some outlying 77484 addresses are in Hempstead, Royal, or Katy ISD, so confirm the campuses for the specific address.
Is Waller a good place to buy a first home?
Often, and the first question is whether the address is inside the City of Waller. Most Waller addresses are not: the new subdivisions, Wildrye, Mustang Meadows and Trails at Cochran Ranch among them, are unincorporated and carry a MUD or WCID line instead of the city line, and the city itself supplies water, sewer, gas and trash only inside its limits. The median single-family sale price in ZIP 77484 was $293,290 in the twelve months to October 29, 2026, per HAR MLS, with about 5.4 months of inventory and 55 median days on market, and half the homes that sold were built in 2025 or later. Waller County and the City of Waller have no down payment program of their own, so a first-time buyer here uses the statewide TSAHC and TDHCA programs. The budget band, the tax stack in and out of the city, utilities and the programs by address are in my guide for a first-time home buyer in Hockley and Waller.
What’s the Waller real estate market like right now?
A buyer’s market, as of HAR’s October 2026 market-area report. Single-family homes around Waller sold at a median price of about $328,000, sold homes averaged about 70 days on the market, and the area carried 7.0 months of supply, with listings up about 2% from a year earlier. Most of what’s for sale is new construction, so builders are competing with resale sellers and there’s room to negotiate on price, closing costs, or a rate buydown. The market area mixes in-city resale, new subdivisions, and acreage, so ask me for numbers on a specific community.
What neighborhoods are in Waller, TX?
The newer subdivisions selling under a Waller address include Wildrye, Attwater, Oakwood Estates, Mustang Meadows, Trails at Cochran Ranch, Oakberry Trails, and Lakeview, and the planned communities of Dellrose and The Grand Prairie sit along the corridor on the Waller ISD side. Attwater, Beacon Hill, and Oakwood Estates are inside the city limits; most of the others are outside it, so check each parcel’s taxing units. The Homes by Community section above has a short rundown of each, with links to my guides.
What does a real estate buyer’s agent cost in Waller, TX?
There’s no set rate. Compensation is negotiable and is set in a written buyer representation agreement before showings begin, which Texas law has required since January 1, 2026. It can be paid three ways: the seller offers it as part of the listing, you ask for it as a seller concession in your offer, or you pay it at closing. I’ve never had a buyer client pay it themselves; it has been covered within the deal, through the seller’s offer or a negotiated concession. The only time you would pay it is if you decide to buy a home where the seller won’t contribute, and you’ll know where it stands before any purchase contract is executed, and whether to sign is always your decision. On new construction we confirm the builder’s terms in writing before your first model-home visit.
Questions About Waller? Send Me a Note
Have a question about a specific address, a builder incentive, school zoning, or what a home’s tax rate would be? Send me a message and I’ll get back to you personally.
Let’s Find Your Place in Waller
Call or text me at 281-500-7077 or email kevan@houstonprimerealty.com, and I’ll help you sort out the Waller market address by address. We’ll agree on representation and how it’s paid up front, in writing.