Is your Whispering Hollow home in Buda ready for a buyer’s inspection?
Quick answer
Not until the inspector’s list is handled, because buyers here are weighing price per foot and condition. Whispering Hollow buyers paid $179 a square foot over the past twelve months, against $194 the year before, on homes of about the same size.
What we analyzed
- 6 homes sold in Whispering Hollow in the 90 days ending October 6, 2026, 35 in the twelve months ending the same day
- 10 Whispering Hollow homes for sale as of October 7, 2026, 6 of them below their original asking price
- 3.4 months of inventory in Whispering Hollow on the twelve-month pace, against 5.4 for Buda as a whole
Sources: Unlock MLS, pulled October 7, 2026. Whispering Hollow is the MLS subdivision name, with its recorded spellings counted as one.
Selling above $1M? Part of this market never goes online
The figures on this page describe the public side of this market, the sales that were listed in the MLS. Above $1M in the Austin area, a large share of sales are never listed there and never appear online.
Those sales trade on a broker-to-broker private network, and I am a participating broker. Only the agents and brokers who do most of the business at this price point use it, and a surprising number of agents do not know it exists because they do not sell in this range. It covers homes, lots, ranches and condos priced over $1M, and much of it is waterfront or in the Austin core, West Austin, Westlake and Rollingwood, where prices run past $1.5M.
Sellers and their brokers use it for privacy: no public photos or floor plans, and no showings to buyers who have not been qualified.
Contact me for off-market private luxury listings you will never see online
99 homes sold by Watters International Realty in Buda. That count is every home we listed and closed in Buda, and it doesn’t include a single buyer we’ve represented. Everything on this page comes from the same MLS record we used to price those homes.
Homes I’ve sold in Whispering Hollow: 6.
How Buda as a whole is doing is on the Buda, TX market report, and the town and ZIP code tables are on the 78610 housing market report.
Last updated October 7, 2026. Sales data covers the 90 days ending October 6, 2026 and the twelve months ending the same day (Unlock MLS via MLS Grid); listing inventory as of October 7, 2026.
Are Whispering Hollow prices falling?
Yes, on homes of about the same size. Whispering Hollow logged 6 sales in the last three months. That is too few to judge by, so everything below rests on the full year. Over that year the typical sale came in at $430,000, below the year before, and price per foot fell with it.
Table 1. Whispering Hollow sales in each period, from the MLS subdivision records for Whispering Hollow in Buda. Each row stands on its own. A median is left out when a period has fewer than 5 sales. 10 Whispering Hollow homes were for sale as of October 7, 2026. Source: Unlock MLS.
| Period | Sold | Median sale price | Price per square foot (median) | Median days on market | Share of original asking price | Median living area (square feet) | Median build year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90 days ending October 6, 2026 | 6 (thin) | $449,950 | $170 | 49 days | 94.1% | 2,747 | 2013 |
| Same 90 days a year earlier (July 9, 2025 to October 6, 2025) | 8 (thin) | $409,950 | $199 | 52 days | 95.3% | 2,338 | 2008 |
| Twelve months ending October 6, 2026 | 35 | $430,000 | $179 | 41 days | 96.7% | 2,483 | 2011 |
| Prior twelve months (October 7, 2024 to October 6, 2025) | 26 | $451,230 | $194 | 44 days | 95.6% | 2,509 | 2008 |
Is Whispering Hollow a buyer’s market or a seller’s market?
Balanced, for the neighborhood as a whole. Homes closed at 96.7% of original asking over the past twelve months, close to the 97% line for a seller’s market under our rule; your price point can put you elsewhere. The low $300,000s, the one busy range, was a seller’s market for that range.
Table 2. Whispering Hollow homes by price range, twelve months ending October 6, 2026; homes for sale as of October 7, 2026. A range is a seller’s market when homes sold for at least 97% of their original asking price, balanced from 94% to 97%, and a buyer’s market below 94%. Only price ranges with at least 10 sales in the twelve months are shown. Source: Unlock MLS.
| Price range | Sold | Median sale price | For sale | New builds for sale | Homes that cut their price | Months of supply | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $350,000 to $399,999 | 11 | $365,000 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 4.4 | seller’s market |
Homes moved at a typical 41 days to contract, and most of the few listed now have cut (60.0%).
Over the year 25.5% of the listings that reached an outcome failed to sell, against 21.7% for Buda.
What is a Whispering Hollow home compared against?
Other resales, plus Buda’s new builds. Whispering Hollow has no builder listings, and its homes that sold were typically built in the early 2010s. A buyer at this price can also tour new construction elsewhere in Buda, so an older home is judged on condition as much as on size.
That makes the inspection the place a Whispering Hollow sale is won or lost. Roof, HVAC and plumbing questions are what a buyer weighs against a builder warranty.
Sell now, or wait?
More homes sold this year, 35 against 26, while price per foot fell. Buyers are coming out of the woodwork in Whispering Hollow, and prices are still easing.
- Listing this season makes sense with an asking price based on this year’s closed sales, not last year’s.
- Sell now if the deferred maintenance is done and the home inspects clean.
- Give it time if your payoff or next purchase needs the per-foot price of a year ago.
- Wait if the home needs repairs an inspector would flag; do those first.
Before the open market, the home goes to our own buyers in the coming-soon stage, the 4,000 cash buyers in my black book, not counting buyers using traditional financing among them, and you choose.
Your situation
In Whispering Hollow the homes are older than most of what Buda buyers tour, so the question for your sale is how your house compares on condition with the resales and new builds at your price, and what a buyer would pay for it once inspected.
That depends on your house, so it starts with your address.
Before You Put Your Home on the Market, See the Homes You’ll Have to Beat
Whispering Hollow homes compete on condition with resales and new builds, and the neighborhood numbers can’t show how yours would compare. Request my complimentary Home Competitor Analysis for your address. You get:
- The homes for sale a buyer would weigh against your Whispering Hollow home
- Which repairs are worth doing before you list
- How the walkthrough works and what we look at
No obligation. The report for your part of Buda arrives within a minute; the pricing analysis comes after we walk the home. Nothing here promises a price, a timeline, or an outcome. 99 homes sold by Watters International Realty in Buda (Unlock MLS, all time).
What should a Whispering Hollow owner fix before listing?
Chris’s position, approved September 9, 2026, trimmed. A prior position, not written for this page.
Spend on what an inspector is going to find. Deferred maintenance and the things that turn into inspection red flags are where the money comes back. Cosmetic work only makes sense when your home looks a generation older than what it is competing with. Everything else is a guess about a buyer’s taste.
Whispering Hollow’s homes were typically built in the early 2010s, so that inspector’s list is the one to work from.
About Watters International Realty in Buda
Watters International Realty is a Texas real estate brokerage, and I am its broker of record. This page is based on Unlock MLS data analyzed on October 7, 2026. 99 homes sold by Watters International Realty in Buda (Unlock MLS, all time).
Questions Buda sellers ask about Whispering Hollow
Are Whispering Hollow home prices dropping?
Yes. Price per square foot was $179 over the past twelve months, against $194 the year before.
How fast do Whispering Hollow homes sell?
The typical sale over the past twelve months reached a contract in 41 days.
Are there new builds in Whispering Hollow?
No. It had no builder listings and no new builds among its sales.
See the homes you’d be competing against
You get the competing listings near you, the repairs worth making first, and a walkthrough before any pricing talk.
Contact me for off-market private luxury listings you will never see online.
No obligation. The report arrives within a minute; the pricing analysis comes after we walk the home. Nothing here promises a price, a timeline, or an outcome.
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