What is your Liberty Hill home worth when builders are listing down the road?
Quick answer
About what similar resales nearby sold for this year. Over the last three months the typical Liberty Hill resale sold for $460,000, and buyers paid more per square foot for resales than for new builds. Your own number depends on your home’s size, condition and price range.
What we analyzed
- 273 homes sold in Liberty Hill in the 90 days ending October 6, 2026
- 469 homes for sale in Liberty Hill as of October 7, 2026, 275 of them builder listings
- 5.2 months of inventory in Liberty Hill, against 5.7 in the Austin metro
- Resales and new builds among the 273 Liberty Hill closings, 90 days ending October 6, 2026
- Builder and resale asking prices for homes for sale as of October 7, 2026
Sources: Unlock MLS, pulled October 7, 2026; Williamson Central Appraisal District (wcad.org) for the parcel record.
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
54 Liberty Hill 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 the Liberty Hill, TX market report, and every number on this page is also broken out in the tables on the 78642 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.
Does a new build down the road lower my home’s value?
Recent closings say no, at least by the foot. Liberty Hill resales sold at a median $204 a square foot last quarter, and new builds at $196.
New builds still sold for more in total because they tend to be larger, so comparing sale prices alone makes a resale look weaker than it is. Size-adjusted, buyers here paid a little more for an established home. Our chart lines up sold and asking prices per square foot.
What are builders asking right now?
Builders ask more per home. The median new-construction listing in Liberty Hill asks $549,900; the median resale asks $485,750.
Per square foot the gap nearly closes, with resales asking slightly more than builders. Asking is not selling either, and most builder listings have already come down from where they started. A builder-by-builder price view is on What is your Liberty Hill home competing against on a buyer’s tour?
Is my home worth less than it was last year?
Roughly level on the middle sale, a bit lower by size. The median Liberty Hill closing was $500,000 this year, matching last year.
Prices are still moving down when measured by size: price per square foot fell from $201 to $195 between those two years. A neighbor’s sale from last year may set your number a little high. Whether to list now or later is covered on Should you sell your Liberty Hill home now, or wait for a better market?
Does my price range change what buyers pay?
Quite a lot. Last quarter, sellers in the low $300,000s kept 96.8% of their first asking price. In the low $500,000s they kept 86.4%.
Those are range-wide numbers; your block and your home’s shape still move the result. Ranges with enough closings each get a row on How is the 78642 housing market doing for Liberty Hill sellers?
Is my appraised value what a buyer will pay?
Often not. Your appraisal district value is set yearly for taxes, and a homestead cap may keep it under market. The buyer’s price gets settled at the closing table, and I make no calls on appraisals.
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 Watters International Realty can tell you is what a buyer would pay.
Will your home hold its value next to a new build?
It depends on where your price falls and on what the inspection turns up. Run your address for the new and resale homes your buyer will compare.
- Strong if buyers can move in without projects and the kitchen and baths feel up to date.
- Strong if mature trees, a bigger lot or an established street give you something a fresh phase of Santa Rita Ranch or Lariat lacks.
- Weak if the roof or AC is near the end of its life.
- Weak if a bigger spec home sells for your price just down the road.
What the quick sellers did right is on Why aren’t homes selling in Liberty Hill? What the quick sales did differently
Your situation
Hundreds of Liberty Hill closings feed these medians, and yours is not among them. Your price is set by the other homes a buyer can see that same week, which here usually means a builder’s spec.
The useful question, then: at your list price, how does your house stack up against those particular rivals?
Before You Put Your Home on the Market, See the Homes You’ll Have to Beat
The medians on this page come from hundreds of Liberty Hill sales, and your home is not one of them. Request my complimentary Home Competitor Analysis for your address. You get:
- The homes for sale near you that a buyer would likely tour alongside yours
- What recent resales and new builds in your part of Liberty Hill sold for against their asking price
- How the walkthrough works and what we look at in your home
No obligation. The report for your part of Liberty Hill arrives within a minute; the pricing analysis comes after we walk the home. Nothing here promises a price, a timeline, or an outcome. 54 homes sold by Watters International Realty in Liberty Hill (Unlock MLS, all time).
What do your appraised value and recent sales really tell you?
Chris Watters’s position, stated September 9, 2026. Watters International Realty does not forecast prices; the figures on this page are one period’s measurements.
Your appraised value and recent sold comparable sales is where the market was yesterday. Tomorrow, the market is where your competition stands on price and features.
In Liberty Hill that competition is mostly builder listings, and most homes for sale, new and resale, have already cut their price.
About Watters International Realty in Liberty Hill
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. 54 homes sold by Watters International Realty in Liberty Hill (Unlock MLS, all time).
See the homes you’d be competing against
You get the competing listings near you, what nearby homes sold for against their asking price, 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.
More for Liberty Hill sellers
- Liberty Hill, TX real estate market report: what homeowners need to know before selling
- 78642 housing market report: the numbers behind the Liberty Hill market
- Should you sell your Liberty Hill home now, or wait?
- What is your Liberty Hill home competing against right now?
- Why aren’t homes selling in Liberty Hill?
- The Austin seller hub
