A Lago Vista buyer prices your home against what is for sale this month. In the twelve months ending October 15, 2026, a square foot sold for a median $210, against $219 in the twelve months before. Your own number depends on your home’s size, condition and price range, and an appraised value is a different measure from what a buyer would pay.
Sources: Unlock MLS, pulled October 16, 2026; Travis Central Appraisal District for the parcel record.
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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97 Lago Vista 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.
What these numbers mean if you are selling is on Is Lago Vista a buyer's market or a balanced one for sellers?, and every number on this page is also broken out in the tables on 78645 housing market report: Lago Vista, Jonestown and Point Venture by price range.
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 typical Lago Vista home sold for $405,000 in the last three months. A median describes the middle sale and no house in particular, and the typical home that sold was 1,944 square feet, so yours may sit well to either side of that.
The chart below shows what a square foot sold for, resale next to new build, and what sellers ask for one today.
Per square foot, resales sold for more. Over the last three months the typical resale sold for $221 a square foot and the typical new build for $195.
By the price of the whole home, the typical new build sold for $447,450 and the typical resale for $405,000. I compare the foot first and the home second, because the foot lines up like with like better than the whole house does.
Buyers also paid a larger share of the first price on resales, 94.9% of original asking against 89.6% for new builds. Only 8 new builds closed in those three months, so the new-build figures are a small sample and a seller should hold them loosely.
The $350,000s are the one range in town with at least 10 sales in the last three months. The typical home there sold for $382,500, so a seller in that range has a recent record to point to.
Outside that range, the twelve-month figures carry the reading, and your own number comes from comparing your house with the closest sales in your range. A range with fewer than 10 sales in the last three months is read on the twelve-month basis, and the page says so each time, because a handful of sales can mislead in either direction. The ranges are laid out on 78645 housing market report: Lago Vista, Jonestown and Point Venture by price range.
Builder listings ask $226 a square foot at the median, and the asking prices run from $310,000 to $1,699,000.
A range that wide means no single number describes the builder house a buyer sees next to yours. Most builder listings have already cut their price, so an asking price is where a builder started. Which builders, communities and prices are in play is on Selling near Tessera or The Hollows? Which homes compete with yours.
The walkthrough is the only route to a number for your house, because it is the one step that looks at your condition, your street and the homes a buyer will weigh yours against.
An appraised value records where the market stood on the date it was set, and it says little about what a buyer will pay this month. When the typical home takes 75 days to reach a contract, a closed comparable reflects a price its seller chose months earlier.
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 Travis Central Appraisal District (https://traviscad.org). What WIR can tell you is what a buyer would pay.
What buyers actually paid is the number to plan around. Homes in Lago Vista closed at 94.4% of original asking in the last three months, and that tells you how far a first price typically came down. Whether that should change your listing date is on Should you sell your Lago Vista home now, or wait? Why some listings fail to sell is on How to tell a price problem from a market problem on a Lago Vista listing. The full scoreboard is on 78645 housing market report: Lago Vista, Jonestown and Point Venture by price range.
Your price range and the condition of the house decide it. Run your address and we start from your range.
What you are competing with is on Selling near Tessera or The Hollows? Which homes compete with yours.
Every figure above describes other houses, at other addresses, in other condition. Your number comes from your house this month, set against the homes a buyer would tour with it.
So here is the question: if you listed this week, what would a buyer’s agent point to in the nearest sale, and what would they point to in the nearest listing?
If you are not sure what number to plan around, start with what a buyer would weigh your house against. Request my complimentary Home Competitor Analysis for your address. You get:
No obligation. The report for your part of Lago Vista arrives within a minute; the pricing analysis comes after we walk the home. Nothing here promises a price, a timeline, or an outcome. 97 homes sold by Watters International Realty in Lago Vista (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 Lago Vista today, that competition includes builder listings asking a median $499,950.
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. 97 homes sold by Watters International Realty in Lago Vista (Unlock MLS, all time).
You get the sold and listed homes a buyer would compare yours with, how your part of Lago Vista compares, and a walkthrough before any pricing talk.
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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.
