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Selling Your Home in Northwest Hills
Plan A/B/C pricing, video and photos, ads that run until it sells, and an update on your home every Monday.
Selling Your Home in Northwest Hills: what's different here
Selling in Northwest Hills means competing for the buyers who already want this part of Austin. In Northwest Hills, value turns on how usable the lot is, the view and how recent the construction is, so two homes of the same size can sell more than a million dollars apart.
That's why I start with where your home stands against the others a buyer will see, not with a number pulled from a website.
Talk about Northwest Hills
Why Northwest Hills sellers work with me
I grew up in Northwest Austin, have lived here since 1976 and have lived on the Mountain in the Spicewood Estates area since 2004. When I price a home in Northwest Hills, I'm weighing what buyers here actually pay for. Buying here means choosing among original homes, renovations and new rebuilds side by side, all in Austin ISD, with the Domain a short drive up MoPac.
How I handle it in Northwest Hills
- A real market evaluation of what has sold and what is under contract in and around Northwest Hills, with three pricing plans, A, B and C. How pricing works.
- Presentation built for the buyers who look here: professional photos, floor plans, a narrated video walkthrough and a 3D tour. See presentation.
- Reach beyond the MLS: a Coming Soon campaign, Facebook and Instagram ads that run until it sells, and Just Listed postcards and Pick Your Neighbor letters around Northwest Hills. See the marketing.
- A Grand Opening open house in the first two weekends and a Monday Morning Market Update on your home every week. See the launch.
More about Northwest Hills
For the full picture of the neighborhood, see living in Northwest Hills. Questions about selling your home here? Call me at (512) 698-3525.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you price a home in Northwest Hills?
I start with what has sold and what is under contract in and around Northwest Hills, adjust for what makes your home different, and lay out three pricing plans. I tell you which I'd choose, and you decide.
Do you hold open houses in Northwest Hills?
Yes. Every listing gets a Grand Opening open house within the first two weekends it's on the market.
Northwest Hills
What selling your home looks like in Northwest Hills
Westover Hills, Northwest Hills and Cat Mountain along Mesa Drive: 1960s and 70s homes, steady rebuilding, and big views toward 360.
- The homes
- Locals use "Northwest Hills" for three neighborhoods: Westover Hills, Northwest Hills and Cat Mountain. The first build was the 1960s and 70s, and building has never stopped: older homes that lack space and function are often torn down and rebuilt, and newer homes go onto lots that take more engineering. Renovation is common too, but cast-iron plumbing in many of the original homes often makes starting new the easier path. The result is a wide variety of homes side by side. Value turns on three things: how usable the lot is, the view from the house, and how recent the construction is. Two recent sales of the same size, about 4,200 square feet, show the range: a 2001 home on more than an acre of usable land with a pool, a 180-degree view and the preserve behind it sold for $2.55M, while a home on Mesa Drive with a smaller lot, a downtown view, power lines across the back, a busier street and plumbing to replace sold for $1.45M.
- Schools people ask about
- Austin ISD only. Most of the area feeds Doss or Hill Elementary, then Murchison Middle School and Anderson High School. Toward 2222 the assignments change to Highland Park Elementary, Lamar Middle School and McCallum High School, so check the address.
- Getting around
- Mesa Drive is the main residential road through all three neighborhoods. It is fairly level until it nears 2222, where it drops sharply. The Domain is a short drive north on MoPac.
- Nearby
- The Domain, a short drive up MoPac. Beverly S. Sheffield Northwest Municipal Pool. Canyon and preserve land behind many of the western lots.
- The trade-off
- The main parts of the neighborhood run off Mesa. The farther a street is from Mesa, especially to the west toward 360, the more extreme the topography gets: bigger views and more privacy, but harder lots. Homes on Mesa itself sit on a busier street.
The method
How we do it in Northwest Hills
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