Bertram new builds and resales sold at very different prices in the three months ending October 15, 2026, $141 a square foot for the typical new build and $228 for the typical resale. In my read, what a buyer pays for your home depends on its size and condition set beside the new home they toured, and your appraised value and recent sold comps show only where the market was yesterday.
Sources: Unlock MLS, pulled October 16, 2026; Burnet Central Appraisal District for the parcel record.
30 Bertram homeowners have trusted my real estate team to sell their home, and that count 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.
What these numbers mean if you are selling is on Do more Bertram sales mean sellers can ask for more?, and every number on this page is also broken out in the tables on How do the 78605 numbers differ from the Austin metro and from Burnet?
Last updated October 16, 2026. Sales data covers the 90 days ending October 15, 2026 and the twelve months ending the same day (Unlock MLS via MLS Grid); listing inventory as of October 16, 2026.
The two kinds of home sell at different price levels, and the gap shows up in dollars and per square foot. Bertram Oaks, the neighborhood with the most closings over the past twelve months, is a builder neighborhood where the typical home sold was built in 2025.
In the last three months the typical new build sold for $240,000 and the typical resale for $488,000.
Buyers paid 93.2% of original asking on new builds and 94.1% on resales. Fewer resales closed than new builds, so the resale figures rest on fewer homes. The chart below shows the price per square foot each kind of home sold for.
New builds in Bertram do not all sell at one level. Over the past twelve months the typical home in Bertram Oaks closed at $255,000, and in Grande Estates at $349,990.
A buyer who toured one of them has a reference price, and a buyer who toured the other has a very different one. Both are new homes, so neither is a number to set your own price by without looking at size, age and condition. Which new community is closest to your house, and what it sold for, is worth knowing before you set a number. The communities and who builds in them are on Is Lennar the only builder your Bertram buyer will compare with your home?
Across all Bertram sales, buyers paid less per square foot than a year ago: $171 over the past twelve months, against $210 over the twelve months before.
A seller who remembers last year’s sales is anchored to the earlier number, and the later figure says buyers have moved off it. What the typical sale price did over the same two periods is on Do more Bertram sales mean sellers can ask for more? For the question of when to list, go to Sell your Bertram home now, or wait? How far below first asking buyers close.
What buyers paid against first asking varies by price range in Bertram, and each range’s reading is worked through in Sell your Bertram home now, or wait? How far below first asking buyers close. What builders and resale sellers are asking right now is on Is Lennar the only builder your Bertram buyer will compare with your home? Why some homes wait is on Is your Bertram listing stuck? How a resale and a new build differ on speed
The Burnet Central Appraisal District sets its own value for tax purposes each year, and what a buyer pays is settled in the contract between buyer and seller. Nothing here predicts how an appraisal will come out.
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 Burnet Central Appraisal District (https://www.burnetad.org). What WIR can tell you is what a buyer would pay.
Condition and price range settle it. If that is you, the fastest way to know is to run your address.
What you are competing with is on Is Lennar the only builder your Bertram buyer will compare with your home?
A buyer who has just toured a new home in Bertram Oaks or Grande Estates knows what new costs, and every figure above comes from other houses. The walkthrough is the one step that looks at your condition, your street and the homes a buyer would weigh against yours, which makes it the only route to a number for your house.
The question is what number a buyer would write on a contract for your home as it stands this month.
If you worry a new build down the road has already set your price, start by seeing what a buyer would compare yours with. Request my complimentary Home Competitor Analysis for your address. You get:
No obligation. The report for your part of Bertram arrives within a minute; the pricing analysis comes after we walk the home. Nothing here promises a price, a timeline, or an outcome. 30 homes sold by Watters International Realty in Bertram (Unlock MLS, all time).
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.
In Bertram, the twelve-month price per square foot in the section above is the yesterday the quote describes.
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 16, 2026. 30 homes sold by Watters International Realty in Bertram (Unlock MLS, all time).
You get the comparable listings near you, what recent Bertram sales show, and a walkthrough before any pricing talk.
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.
