In the three months ending October 15, 2026, every home that closed in Sunset Canyon in Dripping Springs was built before 2015, so the sales cannot show what age changes about a price. In my read, the twelve months are the fair basis because only seven homes closed in the latest three months. They read balanced for Sunset Canyon overall at 96.2% of original asking, and a price point changes which market a home is in.
Sources: Unlock MLS, pulled October 16, 2026.
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.
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40 Dripping Springs homeowners have trusted my real estate team to sell their home in the MLS, 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. That includes 1 in Sunset Canyon.
Every number on this page covers Sunset Canyon only. What the Dripping Springs market as a whole means for a seller is on Selling in Dripping Springs, TX? What to know from Heritage to Driftwood.
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 seven homes that closed in the last three months sold for a median $625,000, at $244 a square foot.
Four were built before 2000 and the other three between 2000 and 2014. The typical one had 2,286 square feet of living area, and none was a new build.
Price per square foot, the figure I read first, was $301 over the past twelve months against $310 in the twelve months before. The two largest sections have median build years of 1994 and 1989, so the older houses set most of that figure.
The median sale price was $750,000 over the past twelve months against $745,000 in the twelve months before.
A typical home took 46 days to reach a contract over the twelve months, and 26 days in the twelve months before.
Table 1. Sunset Canyon sales in each period. Each row stands on its own. Source: Unlock MLS.
| Period | Sold | Median sale price | Median days on market | Share of original asking price | Price per square foot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90 days ending October 15, 2026 | 7 | $625,000 | 59 days | 92.0% | $244 |
| Same 90 days, 2025 (July 18, 2025 to October 15, 2025) | 11 | $825,000 | 22 days | 97.6% | $301 |
| Twelve months ending October 15, 2026 | 33 | $750,000 | 46 days | 96.2% | $301 |
| Prior twelve months (October 16, 2024 to October 15, 2025) | 36 | $745,000 | 26 days | 96.3% | $310 |
It reads balanced over the past twelve months, with homes closing at 96.2% of original asking. The reading is for Sunset Canyon overall, and a price point changes which market a home is in.
Supply, counted as months of inventory, is 1.8 on the twelve-month basis. That is tighter than a balanced reading usually carries, because only a handful of homes are listed at once.
The latest three months ran lower, at 92.0% of original asking, but seven sales are too few to carry a reading of their own.
The same three months last year had 11 closings, against 7 this year. Days to contract in those two periods were 22 and 59, and in my read a handful of sales cannot tell me whether that is a trend. What separates quick sales from slow ones is on Why does a Dripping Springs listing sit? Check it against the homes around it.
Table 2. Sunset Canyon compared with the Austin metro. Sales are from the 90 days ending October 15, 2026; homes for sale are as of October 16, 2026. “Failed to sell” means the listing expired or was withdrawn without selling. Source: Unlock MLS.
| Measure | Sunset Canyon | Austin metro |
|---|---|---|
| Homes sold | 7 | 8,186 |
| Median sale price | $625,000 | $405,000 |
| Median days on market | 59 days | 56 days |
| What homes sold for relative to their initial asking price | 92.0% | 94.3% |
| Price per square foot (median) | $244 | $204 |
| Homes for sale | 5 | 16,289 |
| Months of supply | 2.1 | 6.0 |
| Buyer’s or seller’s market | buyer’s market | balanced |
| Listings that failed to sell | 0 | 5,425 |
| Share of listings that failed to sell | 0.0% | 39.9% |
| Active under contract | 4 | 1,416 |
| Pending | 1 | 2,034 |
| New listings in the last 90 days | 8 | 12,212 |
| Homes for sale priced below their original asking price | 2 (40.0%) | 58.9% |
Five homes are for sale as of October 16, 2026, all of them resales. The MLS shows no builder listings in Sunset Canyon.
Two of the five are priced below where they started. The asking median across the five is $740,000, or $372 a square foot, which describes the listings and not what homes have closed at.
The pipeline holds 4 homes active under contract and 1 pending, where active under contract means an accepted offer on a home still shown for sale and pending is further along. Builders list in other parts of town, and where is on Is your Dripping Springs buyer touring David Weekley Homes or M/I Homes next?
Over the twelve months Sunset Canyon sold at $301 a square foot, against $250 for the town, and at a median $750,000, against $646,500.
On share of original asking it ran a little ahead, 96.2% against 94.4%. Both read balanced, each for its own geography, and a price point changes which market a home is in. The wider town picture is on Selling in Dripping Springs, TX? What to know from Heritage to Driftwood.
Table 3. Sunset Canyon beside Dripping Springs as a whole, 90 days and twelve months ending October 15, 2026. Source: Unlock MLS.
| Measure | Sunset Canyon, 90 days | Dripping Springs, 90 days | Sunset Canyon, twelve months | Dripping Springs, twelve months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homes sold | 7 | 153 | 33 | 696 |
| Median sale price | $625,000 | $630,000 | $750,000 | $646,500 |
| Median days on market | 59 days | 62 days | 46 days | 53 days |
| Share of original asking price | 92.0% | 93.8% | 96.2% | 94.4% |
| Price per square foot (median) | $244 | $242 | $301 | $250 |
The MLS records Sunset Canyon by section. Section V had the most closings over the twelve months, with a median build year of 1994, and Section 1 followed with a median build year of 1989.
Table 4. Sunset Canyon subdivisions by closings in the twelve months ending October 15, 2026, with the median build year of what sold and the count for sale as of October 16, 2026. Source: Unlock MLS.
| Subdivision (MLS name) | Sold, twelve months | Median sale price | Median build year | For sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunset Canyon Sec V | 11 | $815,000 | 1994 | 1 |
| Sunset Canyon Sec 1 | 7 | $810,000 | 1989 | 2 |
| Sunset Canyon Sec 4 | 4 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Sunset Canyon Sec Iii | 3 | n/a | n/a | 2 |
| Sunset Canyon Sec 3 | 2 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Sunset Canyon V | 2 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Sunset Canyon | 2 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Sunset Canyon Sec Ii | 1 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Sunset Canyon Sec II | 1 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
If your house is in one of those two, the sales in your own section are your nearest comparison. What a buyer will pay for it once a lender weighs in is on Does your Dripping Springs appraisal tell you what a buyer will pay? and when to list is on Sell your Dripping Springs home now, or wait? What a year of sales shows.
The figures cover the MLS subdivision named Sunset Canyon, and your home’s age and section decide how well they describe it. Run your address and I will line it up against the nearest sales.
Sunset Canyon has no builder listings, so in my read the buyer comparing yours is looking at other older homes, and the five now for sale are the ones in the frame.
For your house: next to those five, what has been updated or kept up in yours that a buyer of an older home will see on the first walk through?
If you wonder how your older home will be read next to the other Sunset Canyon listings, start by seeing which ones a buyer would compare it with. Request my complimentary Home Competitor Analysis for your address. You get:
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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. 40 homes sold by Watters International Realty in Dripping Springs (Unlock MLS, all time).
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