If you’re buying or selling in Austin, you’re dealing with one of the most varied real estate markets in Texas — the city itself stretches across Travis, Williamson, and Hays counties, and depending on the address you could be zoned to Austin ISD, Round Rock ISD, Eanes ISD, Leander ISD, or several others. That variation […]

If you’re buying or selling in Bee Cave, you’re in one of the more upscale, fast-changing markets on Austin’s west side, about 16 miles from downtown along Highway 71. Bee Cave sits in Travis County, and school district can actually vary by address — parts of the city fall in Lake Travis ISD and parts […]

If you’re buying or selling in Jonestown, you’re looking at a small community on the north shore of Lake Travis, about 25 miles northwest of downtown Austin. It’s in Travis County, and depending on the specific address, homes here fall in either Leander ISD or Lago Vista ISD. What I want to cover here is […]

If you’re buying or selling on the water in Lago Vista, there’s a set of lake-specific issues that don’t come up in a typical Austin-area sale, and getting them wrong can slow down or sink a contract. Lago Vista sits on the north shore of Lake Travis in Travis County, roughly 30 miles northwest of […]

If you’re buying or selling in Round Rock, you’re dealing with one of the busiest housing markets in the Austin metro. Round Rock sits mostly in Williamson County, with a small piece extending into Travis County, and it’s home to Dell Technologies’ headquarters — that corporate presence, plus the tech jobs it draws, is a […]

If you’re weighing whether to buy or sell in Pflugerville, here’s what I can tell you after years of working this market: it’s one of the fastest-growing suburbs on Austin’s north side, and that growth changes how you need to approach a purchase or a sale here. Most of the city sits in Travis County, […]

Leander sits about 20-22 miles north of Austin, spanning both Williamson and Travis counties, and it’s home to Leander ISD’s headquarters as well as the northern terminus of Capital Metro’s Red Line commuter rail. I’m Robbie English, REALTOR and Broker at Uncommon Realty, and I’ve represented buyers and sellers in this market long enough to […]

Manor sits in Travis County along the US-290 corridor, about 12 to 15 miles northeast of downtown Austin. It’s one of the fastest-growing small cities in the country, and that growth traces directly back to what’s happening around it economically. Tesla’s Gigafactory sits just southwest of the city, and Samsung’s expanding semiconductor campus in nearby […]

Lakeway sits on the south shore of Lake Travis, about 16-20 miles west of downtown Austin depending on where you’re starting from, in the Texas Hill Country. It’s zoned to Lake Travis ISD, one of the top-rated districts in the Austin area, and that combination of lake access and school quality is the main reason […]

Hutto sits in Williamson County about 25 miles northeast of Austin, and it’s one of the fastest-growing small cities in the region. Most of what you’ll see here is new construction, with entire subdivisions built out in the last decade. Hutto ISD serves the city and has grown right along with it, roughly doubling enrollment […]

Georgetown is the Williamson County seat, about 25 miles north of Austin, and it functions as three genuinely different real estate markets sharing one city limit: the historic downtown square, the age-restricted Sun City community, and a wave of newer master-planned subdivisions like Rancho Sienna alongside older established neighborhoods like Berry Creek. I’m Robbie English, […]

Cedar Park sits about 21 miles north of downtown Austin and straddles the Travis and Williamson county line. Nearly all of it is zoned to Leander ISD, one of the higher-rated school districts in the Austin area, which is a big part of why the city keeps drawing families out of Austin proper. Commute times […]

Downtown Austin real estate means condos and high-rises almost exclusively — there’s very little single-family housing left inside the core, and most of what exists is in the Rainey Street district or the streets just north of the Capitol. Buying and selling here works differently than anywhere else in the city, and the two things […]

North Central Austin is really a cluster of neighborhoods — Allandale, Crestview, Brentwood, Highland, and North Shoal Creek among them — built mostly in the 1950s and 60s on the site of old dairy and farm land. It’s entirely inside Austin ISD, though which elementary school a house is zoned to can change from one […]

East Austin has changed more than almost any other part of the city over the past two decades. It was historically home to Austin’s Black and Latino communities going back to the 1920s, and it’s now one of the most in-demand areas for buyers who want to be close to downtown without downtown prices. That […]