Sixteen builders. On September 9, 2026, 147 of the 367 homes for sale in ZIP 78653 were builder listings, new, under construction or to be built, and D.R. Horton alone had 57 of them. Our position is that a Manor seller should know the exact house a buyer tours the same afternoon as theirs, because in this ZIP the neighbor’s resale is not the competition.
Your Manor home is competing against 147 builder listings in 78653 as of September 9, 2026, which is 40% of the 367 homes for sale, priced from $247,900 to $545,331 under sixteen builder names. The competition is heaviest between $350,000 and $500,000, where new builds are 58% to 78% of what is listed, and lightest under $300,000, where they are 4% to 12%. What changes it for you is your likely price, whether a finished spec stands in your community or the next one over, and what your lot and street offer that a builder lot does not.
Sources: Unlock MLS (ACTRIS) via MLS Grid, WIR analysis, pulled September 9, 2026; WIR New Construction Inventory tracking; Freddie Mac PMMS.
The wider Manor story is on the Manor, TX real estate market report, and every figure on this page is tabled on the 78653 housing market report.
Last updated September 9, 2026. Sales data covers the 90 days ending September 8, 2026 (Unlock MLS via MLS Grid); listing inventory as of September 9, 2026; builder pricing and incentives read September 8, 2026.
Sixteen builder names appear on the 147 listings the MLS flags as new construction, under construction or to be built in 78653 on September 9, 2026. The table is the MLS count, so every figure in it is exact. D.R. Horton carries 57, Century Communities 17, DRB Homes 14, Milestone 13, and Pacesetter and Pulte 10 each. As a group the builder listings run from $247,900 to $545,331 with a median asking price of $390,470, and 61 of the 147 have already been cut from their original list price.
| Builder | Active listings | List price range | Median list price | Communities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D.R. Horton | 57 | $261,990 to $469,775 | $371,190 | Carillon, Monarch Ranch, Palomino, Trails at Wildhorse |
| Century Communities | 17 | $349,990 to $526,205 | $449,070 | Evelyn |
| DRB Homes | 14 | $319,990 to $469,990 | $387,490 | Carillon, Newhaven |
| Milestone Community Builders | 13 | $379,999 to $429,999 | $398,999 | Saddle Ridge at Wildhorse Ranch |
| Pacesetter Homes | 10 | $247,900 to $389,900 | $327,450 | Whisper Valley, Village at Manor Commons |
| Pulte Homes | 10 | $350,990 to $481,079 | $407,970 | Cameron Place, Lagos |
| Chesmar | 6 | $413,641 to $545,331 | $464,546 | Newhaven |
| GFO Home | 5 | $439,685 to $499,105 | $461,215 | Whisper Valley |
| M/I Homes | 5 | $349,990 to $379,990 | $369,990 | Carillon |
| Terrata Homes | 3 | $324,900 to $334,900 | $324,900 | Whisper Valley |
| Tri Pointe Homes | 2 | $439,871 to $526,907 | $483,389 | Lagos Reserve |
| Aha Dream Homes | 1 | $534,948 | $534,948 | Whisper Valley |
| All sixteen builder names | 147 of 367 | $247,900 to $545,331 | $390,470 | Cameron Place, Carillon, Evelyn, Lagos, Lagos Reserve, Manor Town, Monarch Ranch, Mustang Valley, Newhaven, Palomino, Saddle Ridge at Wildhorse Ranch, Trails at Wildhorse, Village at Manor Commons, Whisper Valley (as the MLS spells them; Whisper Valley and Saddle Ridge each appear under more than one phase name) |
| Source: Unlock MLS (ACTRIS) via MLS Grid, WIR analysis, pulled September 9, 2026, query Listings active as of September 9, 2026. | ||||
The MLS carries sixteen builder names in all; the twelve with a broken-out row in our pull are in the table, and the total row counts every one of the 147. Why a builder can put a bought-down rate on the table, and what that does and does not do to values, is on is new construction hurting Manor resale values?
The MLS counts listings; it does not carry a community’s published range, spec count, HOA or advertised incentive. The WIR New Construction Inventory sheet tracks those, and for the two Pacesetter communities in 78653, read September 8, 2026, it shows the following.
The sheet’s spec counts and the MLS listing counts are different counts of different things. The sheet counts finished homes the builder advertises as move-in ready; the MLS shows 10 Pacesetter listings in the ZIP, priced $247,900 to $389,900. Our read is that the two overlap without matching: a builder does not list every spec, and the MLS count takes in homes under construction. Counts on this page come from the MLS, published terms from the sheet. The ZIP’s median sale price of $330,000 for the 90 days ending September 8, 2026 sits inside both published ranges. What the developer publishes about Whisper Valley, and what the MLS shows for that community on its own, is on Whisper Valley real estate market: what sellers should know.
Because a PID comes up on this page, one line belongs here in full. 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 assessment on your lot, or what the November 3 bond 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.
By $50,000 range, the builder share of what is for sale in 78653 climbs with price and then drops off. New builds are 4% of the homes for sale between $200,000 and $249,999, 12% between $250,000 and $299,999, and 34% in the $300,000 to $349,999 range where the ZIP median sale price of $330,000 sits. Then 59% between $350,000 and $399,999, 78% between $400,000 and $449,999, and 58% between $450,000 and $499,999. The table puts the closings and the months of inventory beside each share.
| Price range | Homes for sale | New construction share | Closed | Months of inventory | WIR label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $200,000 to $249,999 | 26 | 4% | 17 | 4.6 | Seller’s market |
| $250,000 to $299,999 | 75 | 12% | 33 | 6.8 | Buyer’s market |
| $300,000 to $349,999 | 67 | 34% | 35 | 5.7 | Balanced |
| $350,000 to $399,999 | 90 | 59% | 33 | 8.2 | Buyer’s market |
| $400,000 to $449,999 | 45 | 78% | 14 | 9.6 | Buyer’s market |
| $450,000 to $499,999 | 38 | 58% | 25 (twelve months ending September 8, 2026) | 18.2 (twelve-month basis) | Buyer’s market (twelve-month basis) |
| Source: Unlock MLS (ACTRIS) via MLS Grid, WIR analysis, pulled September 9, 2026; queries and Months of inventory means: if no more homes came on the market, how long it would take to sell everything listed at the current pace. The right company sells faster than the average listing. | |||||
Read across the $350,000 to $449,999 rows: 90 and 45 homes for sale, most of them new, each range a buyer’s market on the 90 days ending September 8, 2026. Each label is for its price range across 78653, and a price point changes which market a homeowner is in, so neither is any single home’s label. Above $420,000 the MLS shows 92 homes for sale, 48 of them new builds, and above $550,000 it shows no builder inventory at all. If your likely price is above $420,000, or you own acreage, your page is should you sell acreage or a higher-priced home in Manor now, or wait?
The sheet tracks four communities in Elgin, Pflugerville and Del Valle, read September 8, 2026; our read is that a Manor buyer sees them too. In Elgin, Harvest Ridge (Brohn) publishes $179,990 to $333,110 with at least 16 specs, and Trinity Ranch (Trophy Signature) publishes $266,990 to $368,345 with at least 8 specs and an advertised 1.99% start-rate promotion (terms apply, subject to change) against the Freddie Mac survey rate of 6.71% on September 3, 2026. In Pflugerville, The Trails at Carmel (Ashton Woods) publishes $350,990 to $529,266 with at least 12 specs. In Del Valle, Stoney Chase (KB) publishes $271,995 to $420,026 with at least 3 specs.
Our read, from the listings above and the sheet, is that a resale beats a spec on the ground it stands on and the number it asks. A lot bigger than a builder lot, or one where a builder cannot put a house, is something the spec cannot offer, and so is a street where the trees are grown and the road is not a construction entrance. Carrying cost counts when the home has no assessment where the builder community carries one; against Whisper Valley’s $82 a month plus a PID, a resale with neither has a monthly line the builder cannot match. Price counts when the home is offered under the builder’s floor for the same square footage, because then the buyer is choosing between a finished house and a better deal. A resale does not win on rate, warranty or being new. What separates a Manor home that sells from one that does not is on why aren’t homes selling in 78653? What to fix so the house reads as finished next to a spec, and what to skip, is on how much should you spend fixing your Manor home before selling?
It is if your likely price sits between $350,000 and $500,000, because at those numbers a finished new home is 58% to 78% of what a buyer can tour in 78653. It is if a spec is standing in your subdivision or one in the table above, with a warranty and an advertised rate you cannot offer. It is if your square footage matches a builder floor plan listed at or under your price. If that is you, the fastest way to know is to run your address.
It is not if your likely price is under $300,000, where new builds are 4% to 12% of the homes for sale and the lowest range is a seller’s market at 4.6 months on the 90 days ending September 8, 2026; that label is for the $200,000 to $249,999 range across 78653, and a price point changes which market a homeowner is in, so it is no single home’s label. It is not if your likely price is above $550,000, where the MLS shows no builder inventory in the ZIP. And it is not if you own land, a mature street or a location a builder cannot reproduce.
The table is the ZIP’s competition. Yours is shorter: the handful of homes, new and resale, that a buyer with your budget will see the same afternoon as yours, and what each costs to own each month. A resale near Sea Gull Way is up against a Village at Manor Commons spec whether the owner likes it or not; a home on acreage north of US 290 competes with the builder ranges on price and with nothing in the table on land. Which of these builders will your buyer tour instead of you, and at what price?
The builder table is the same for everyone in 78653, and what it means is different for every address: which of those 147 homes, and which resales, sit at your price and in your part of the ZIP. Give us your address and we run the process behind this page against your actual property. You get:
No obligation. An analyst runs your address, your part of 78653, and the timeline you name. Estimates are estimates; nothing here promises a price, a timeline, or an outcome. 118 homes sold by Watters International Realty in 78653.
Chris’s position, WIR positions library, approved September 9, 2026.
Know the exact house your buyer will tour the same afternoon as yours, by community, by price, and by what the builder is throwing in. Most sellers price against the neighbor’s resale. In this ZIP the neighbor’s resale is not the competition.
On September 9, 2026, 147 of the 367 homes for sale in 78653 were builder listings, 40% of the market.
Watters International Realty is a Texas real estate brokerage based in Austin, with Chris Watters as broker of record. This page is written from ACTRIS data pulled through MLS Grid and analyzed by WIR on September 9, 2026, and from the WIR New Construction Inventory sheet. 118 homes sold by Watters International Realty in 78653.
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