Selling acreage or a higher-priced Manor home? What the last year of sales shows
Quick answer
Both read as buyer’s markets. Acreage sold at 88.5% of original asking price over the last twelve months. Homes first listed above $420,000 sold at 93.1% over the last ninety days. Both groups have far fewer sales than the ZIP as a whole, so the readings are rougher.
What we analyzed
- Homes on one acre or more in ZIP 78653, twelve months ending October 1, 2026, because the last 90 days hold fewer than 10 sales
- Homes first listed above $420,000 in ZIP 78653, 90 days ending October 1, 2026, beside homes first listed at $420,000 or less
- Acreage and higher-priced homes for sale as of October 2, 2026
- Homes of 10 acres or more, counts only
Sources: Unlock MLS, pulled October 2, 2026; Manor ISD bond page.
124 Manor 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 the Manor, TX market report, and every number on this page is also broken out in the tables on the Manor ZIP code scoreboard.
Last updated October 3, 2026. Sales data covers the 90 days ending October 1, 2026 and the twelve months ending the same day (Unlock MLS via MLS Grid); listing inventory as of October 2, 2026.
Is it harder to sell acreage in Manor?
Acreage is the thinner market. Over the last ninety days only six homes on one acre or more sold, too few to read, so I use the last twelve months, when 25 sold.
Those 25 sold at 88.5% of original asking price, which reads as a buyer’s market for acreage.
Table 1. Acreage in 78653, twelve months ending October 1, 2026, because the last 90 days hold fewer than 10 sales. The 10-acre row is counts only. A range is a seller’s market when homes sell for at least 97% of their original asking price, balanced from 94% to under 97%, and a buyer’s market below 94%. Source: Unlock MLS, pulled October 2, 2026.
| Lot size | Sold, twelve months | Median sale price | Sale price as a share of original asking | For sale | Median asking price | Failed to sell, twelve months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 acre or more | 25 | $585,000 | 88.5% (buyer’s market) | 17 | $895,000 | 27 |
| 10 acres or more | 7 | counts only | counts only | 6 | counts only | 9 |
Over the same twelve months 27 acreage listings failed to sell, meaning they expired or were withdrawn, so more listings failed to sell than homes sold. 17 are for sale now. No acreage home that sold was a new build, so a builder is not the competition here.
For 10 acres or more the counts are too thin to read, so the table shows counts only. I make no claim about which way acreage prices are heading, because the sales are too few to support one.
Is it harder to sell a home above $420,000?
Homes first listed above $420,000 sold at 93.1% of original asking price over the last ninety days, which reads as a buyer’s market. Homes first listed at or below that line sold at 94.8%, which reads balanced.
Table 2. 78653 by original asking price, above $420,000 against $420,000 and under, 90 days ending October 1, 2026. A range is a seller’s market when homes sell for at least 97% of their original asking price, balanced from 94% to under 97%, and a buyer’s market below 94%. Source: Unlock MLS, pulled October 2, 2026.
| Original asking price | Sold | Median sale price | Price per square foot | Sale price as a share of original asking | Same 90 days, 2025 | For sale | Priced below original asking | Failed to sell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above $420,000 | 37 | $421,580 | $169 | 93.1% (buyer’s market) | 42 sold, 90.8% | 83 | 51 | 30 |
| $420,000 and under | 103 | $300,000 | $168 | 94.8% (balanced) | 103 sold, 94.8% | 234 | 143 | 81 |
Price per square foot was about the same in both groups. The difference is in how far homes came down from their first price. I draw the line by original asking price so the sales and the homes for sale describe the same homes.
About three in five of the homes for sale above that line are already priced below their original asking price. The table has the counts.
Who competes with a higher-priced Manor home?
Builders do, more than they do at lower prices. Over the last twelve months, more than half of the homes first listed above $420,000 that sold were new builds. Which builders list in your range is on What is your Manor home competing against?, and how your price range reads on its own is on Is Manor a buyer’s market or a seller’s market?
What a buyer would pay for your house next to a new one is on What is your Manor home worth next to a new build?. The ZIP as a whole is on How is the Manor ZIP code market doing?, and the city’s story is on What the Manor housing market looks like for sellers
Do taxes change when I sell acreage?
Acreage often carries a tax history of its own, such as an agricultural valuation. Ask a tax professional what a sale does to it before you list.
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 (traviscad.org). What WIR can tell you is what a buyer would pay.
Does this apply to your property?
It applies if your land is one acre or more, or if you would list above $420,000. Run your address and I will tell you which group your home falls in. If it is neither, the ranges on Is Manor a buyer’s market or a seller’s market? are the better guide.
Both groups here are thin, so a reading here is rougher than the ZIP’s. If you are weighing a sale against waiting, that decision is on Should you sell your Manor home now, or wait?
Your situation
A larger or higher-priced property is compared with a smaller set of sales, so the specific comparison matters more than a ZIP code number does.
The walkthrough is where we look at the land, the house and what a buyer could compare it with. The report below is the first step.
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No obligation. The report shows the homes competing with yours. It does not include a price opinion or a valuation, and nothing here promises a price, a timeline, or an outcome. 124 homes sold by Watters International Realty in 78653 (Unlock MLS, all time).About Watters International Realty in Manor
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- What is your Manor home competing against?
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- Should you sell your Manor home now, or wait?
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