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Your Georgetown home vs a new build: almost identical per square foot

By Chris Watters, Broker and CEO, Watters International Realty

What a buyer pays for it this month, measured against the new house that buyer toured the same afternoon. In Georgetown the median home sold for $430,000 in the 90 days ending September 17, 2026, with new builds closing at a median $464,500 and resales at $416,000. Per square foot the two were nearly level, $202 new and $203 resale, so the decision comes down to what an inspection finds, what the lot and street offer, and which builder homes stand at your price.

Quick answer

A Georgetown home is worth what a buyer pays for it against the new house they can also tour, and in the 90 days ending September 17, 2026 the median Georgetown home sold for $430,000, with new builds closing at a median $464,500 and resales at $416,000. Builders asked a median $517,041 for the 494 builder listings on the MLS on September 18, 2026, resale sellers asked a median $419,500, and the 805 homes that closed went for 94.9% of their original asking price. On the twelve-month medians Georgetown sold for $440,000 against $454,000 the year before, down 3.1%, so a seller who starts from last year’s number, or from a notice built on it, is starting above where buyers stopped.

What we analyzed

Sources: Unlock MLS (ACTRIS) via MLS Grid, WIR analysis, pulled September 18, 2026; WIR New Construction Inventory sheet, rows for Georgetown, read September 18, 2026 (published range, spec count and incentive as published); Williamson Central Appraisal District for the parcel record.

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The wider Georgetown story is on the Georgetown, TX real estate market report, and every figure on this page is tabled on the Georgetown ZIP code scoreboard.

Last updated September 18, 2026. Sales data covers the 90 days ending September 17, 2026 and the twelve months ending the same day (Unlock MLS via MLS Grid); listing inventory as of September 18, 2026.

What did Georgetown homes sell for, new build against resale?

In the 90 days ending September 17, 2026, 805 homes closed in Georgetown at a median sale price of $430,000, at 94.9% of their original asking price and $203 per square foot. By the MLS proxy (a new-construction flag, or a 2025-or-later build year with a builder on the record) 274 of them were new builds, 34.0% of the closings, and they went for a median $464,500; the other 531 were resales at a median $416,000.

Per square foot the split nearly disappears. New builds sold at $202 a square foot and resales at $203, so a square foot costs a Georgetown buyer about the same either way. On the asking side, as of September 18, 2026, the 494 builder listings asked a median $208 a square foot and the 749 resale listings $204; asking figures are for homes that have not sold, which is why the chart below keeps them apart.

What a square foot sold for in Georgetown, resale against new build, and what sellers are asking now Median price per square foot. Sold: 90 days ending September 17, 2026. Asking: listings as of September 18, 2026. Resales that sold $203 New builds that sold $202 Builder listings, asking $208 All listings, asking $205 Source: Unlock MLS (ACTRIS) via MLS Grid, WIR analysis, pulled September 18, 2026.
Figure 1. Resales and new builds that sold in Georgetown in the 90 days ending September 17, 2026 went for $203 and $202 a square foot, while sellers were asking $208 and $205 as of September 18, 2026. Median price per square foot: Resales that sold $203; New builds that sold $202; Builder listings, asking $208; All listings, asking $205. Source: Unlock MLS (ACTRIS) via MLS Grid, WIR analysis, pulled September 18, 2026.

Is your home worth the builder’s asking price minus something?

No, and in Georgetown the builder’s own asking price moves. On September 18, 2026 the 494 builder listings, 39.7% of the 1,243 homes for sale, asked from $274,999 to $1,649,900 with a median of $517,041, and 334 of those 494 had already come down from their original asking price. Perry Homes’ 80 listings at a median $654,900 are prices for 80 specific houses with a warranty attached, adjusted lot by lot, so a fixed discount off that median describes Perry Homes’ inventory and nothing about a resale across town.

The WIR New Construction Inventory sheet, read September 18, 2026, shows the layer under the MLS asking price: Perry Homes publishes $574,900 to $799,900 for its Wolf Ranch 51′ series in 78628, at least 9 move-in-ready specs (a spec is a house the builder finished without a buyer, priced to sell as it stands), and, as published, price reductions on select quick move-ins of up to $45,000 off. The full builder table is on what is your Georgetown home competing against right now?

Why is last year’s price the wrong anchor in Georgetown?

Because the market moved under it: over the twelve months ending September 17, 2026, Georgetown’s median sale price was $440,000 against $454,000 in the prior twelve months, down 3.1%, and the price per square foot was $204 against $213, down 4.3%. A seller who prices from a neighbor’s 2025 sale, or from the figure on a spring appraisal notice, is starting from sales that closed at higher medians than this year’s.

Of the 1,243 Georgetown listings on September 18, 2026, 808 (65.0%) had already cut from their original asking price, and the active median asking of $462,999 sat beside a closed median of $430,000, two different measurements. Of the 805 homes that did close, 149 (18.5%) went for their original asking price or more. Georgetown carries a seller’s-market label on 4.6 months of inventory (how long the homes for sale would take to sell at the current pace of closings) alongside all those cuts because the label describes pace for the town overall and a price point changes which market a home is in. Whether now is the time is on should you sell your Georgetown home now, or wait?, and what the listings that ended without a sale had in common is on why aren’t homes selling in Georgetown?

What is the difference between appraised value and market value?

Appraised value is the figure the Williamson Central Appraisal District puts on your parcel each year so that taxing units can send a bill; a homestead cap (the state’s limit on how much the taxable value of a homesteaded home can rise from one year to the next) can hold the taxable part below it. Market value is the number a buyer actually hands over for the house this month. WIR has no appraisal data for Georgetown and does not say which side of a buyer’s offer yours lands on.

Watters International Realty is a real estate brokerage and not a tax or legal adviser. Questions about your own appraised value, your homestead cap, whether to protest, a PID or MUD assessment on your lot, or what a bond election would do to your own tax bill belong with a tax professional, and the record for your specific parcel is held by the Williamson Central Appraisal District (https://www.wcad.org). What WIR can tell you is what a buyer would pay.

Chris’s take: why your appraised value and your comps are yesterday’s market

Chris Watters’s position, stated September 9, 2026. WIR does not forecast prices; the figures on this page are one period’s measurements.

Your appraised value and recent sold comps is where the market was yesterday. Tomorrow, the market is where your competition stands on price and features.

On September 18, 2026 the competition in Georgetown stood at 494 builder listings asking a median $517,041 beside 749 resale listings asking $419,500, and the twelve months ending September 17, 2026 closed at a median $440,000 against $454,000 the year before, down 3.1%.

Can this page tell you what your home is worth?

No. Take the $350,000 to $449,999 band, the one the town median falls in: 246 homes closed there in the 90 days ending September 17, 2026, 342 were for sale on September 18, 2026, and 124 of those were builder listings. The band is the crowd; which of the 124 a buyer tours against yours is a question about your street. The number for a Georgetown house comes after we walk it, because nothing in the 805 closings or the 1,243 listings on the record says whether the roof and the HVAC will pass an inspection, or what the lot offers that a builder cannot pour. Every town figure on this page sits in a table on the Georgetown ZIP code scoreboard.

Is your home worth more or less than the new house down the road?

Likely more if you own a lot or a street the builder’s price cannot include, and the two Sun City MLS names show the size of that: the 90 homes that closed as Sun City in the twelve months ending September 17, 2026 had a median build year of 2013 and went for a median $392,500, while the 67 that closed as Sun City Texas had a median build year of 2025 and went for $385,000, so in that community the resale-led name closed at the higher median. Likely more if your likely price sits in the $250,000 to $349,999 band, where 50 of the 222 homes for sale on September 18, 2026 were builder listings. If that is you, the fastest way to know is to run your address.

Likely less if your likely price lands between $550,000 and $649,999, where 82 of the 129 homes for sale on September 18, 2026 were builder listings, because that buyer is touring a finished house with a warranty; the sheet shows one row reaching that band, Perry Homes in Wolf Ranch 51′ with up to $45,000 off on select quick move-ins, as published. The same applies if an inspector is going to write up the roof or the HVAC, or if your finishes read a generation older than a Wolf Ranch or Parkside on the River spec.

Your situation

The town’s figures put the median at $430,000, the new build at $464,500 and the resale at $416,000. Your house decides the rest. A buyer at your price may be choosing between you and a Perry Homes spec, and the comp you are leaning on may have closed in 2025; what you own that a builder cannot supply has to show from the curb. If a buyer walked out of a finished new house this afternoon and into yours, what would they pay?

What would a buyer pay for your home this month?

Neither the 2025 comp you have in mind nor the appraisal notice on your counter is a buyer’s offer. Give us your address and we run the process behind this page against your actual property. You get:

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About Watters International Realty in Georgetown

Watters International Realty is a Texas real estate brokerage based in Austin, with Chris Watters as broker of record. This page is written from ACTRIS data pulled through MLS Grid and analyzed by WIR on September 18, 2026. 37 homes sold by Watters International Realty in Georgetown since August 2024 (Unlock MLS).

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Chris Watters, Broker, Watters International Realty. Texas Real Estate Commission license #567369. Broker of record for a Texas brokerage based in Austin, serving the Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio and Killeen-Temple-Waco metros.