Horseshoe Bay sits on Lake LBJ, straddling Llano and Burnet counties about an hour west of Austin. It’s a resort community first and a town second — golf, a yacht club, and a full-service marina are built into daily life here, not just amenities for visitors.
Below is a live search of current Horseshoe Bay TX homes for sale, plus what I’d want you to know before you buy here.
Why buyers choose Horseshoe Bay
Lake LBJ is a constant-level lake maintained by the LCRA, which is a real selling point compared to Lake Travis — you’re not looking at a boat dock sitting on dry ground during a drawdown year. On the golf side, several of the resort’s courses are known locally as the “Texas Triangle,” and Summit Rock is a Jack Nicklaus Signature course with a members-only feel. Buyers here tend to be retirees and second-home buyers drawn to the lake and golf lifestyle, along with a growing number of full-time residents who work remotely.
What homes here actually look like
Housing ranges from condos and patio homes near the golf courses to multi-million dollar lakefront estates with private docks, so price and lot size vary a lot depending on which part of the community you’re looking at. Architecture is a mix — some homes lean modern, others lean into a more traditional Hill Country style with stone exteriors — but almost all of them are built to take advantage of either the water or the views.
Buying in Horseshoe Bay
Horseshoe Bay isn’t one blanket HOA for the whole city — it’s broken into subdivisions, each with its own POA and its own rules, so I always pull the specific POA docs for whatever section a buyer is looking at rather than assuming they’re all the same. Contracts, contingencies, and timelines are also where a purchase can go sideways if nobody’s watching closely, especially on lakefront property with dock permitting or floodplain considerations. If Horseshoe Bay’s inventory or price point doesn’t fit when you’re ready to buy, I also work Sunrise Beach Village down the lake, which tends to run less expensive with a similar lake lifestyle.
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What “A View” Means in Horseshoe Bay
Depending on where a home sits, “view” here can mean direct Lake LBJ frontage, a fairway view on one of the resort’s golf courses, or a hilltop lot looking out over the Hill Country. They’re priced differently and come with different tradeoffs — waterfront usually means boat dock access and higher property taxes, golf-course lots put you closer to the clubhouse and amenities, and hilltop lots tend to be quieter and further from the water but often larger. Access runs along Highway 71 and Ranch Road 1431, and depending on the exact address you could be zoned to Marble Falls ISD, Burnet CISD, or Llano ISD — I’ll confirm the district for any specific property before you get attached to it.
The Peninsula
The Peninsula is a small gated enclave on Lake LBJ — fewer than a dozen waterfront estates behind stone walls, genuinely exclusive rather than just marketed that way. It’s part of the larger Horseshoe Bay resort community, so residents get both the privacy of a small gated section and access to the golf courses, yacht club, and dining that make Horseshoe Bay one of the more amenity-rich addresses in the Hill Country. Because lots are limited to less than a dozen, whatever’s on the market at any given moment is genuinely scarce, and listings here often sell before they’re ever publicly listed.
