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Selling Your Home in Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks
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 Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks: what's different here
Selling in Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks means competing for the buyers who already want this part of Austin. Buyers here notice the difference between Oak Forest's more varied homes and Barrington Oaks' repeated Milburn floor plans, so pricing starts with which side of the area a home is on.
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.
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Why Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks sellers work with me
I grew up a few minutes away, and my wife and I bought our first house in Oak Forest. When I price a home in Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks, I'm weighing what buyers here actually pay for. Oak Forest and Barrington Oaks give buyers a flatter neighborhood off Jollyville Road and Spicewood Springs Road, with most of the Round Rock ISD side feeding Caraway Elementary.
How I handle it in Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks
- A real market evaluation of what has sold and what is under contract in and around Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks, 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 Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks. 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 Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks
For the full picture of the neighborhood, see living in Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks. Questions about selling your home here? Call me at (512) 698-3525.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you price a home in Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks?
I start with what has sold and what is under contract in and around Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks, 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 Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks?
Yes. Every listing gets a Grand Opening open house within the first two weekends it's on the market.
Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks
What selling your home looks like in Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks
Two neighboring 1970s neighborhoods off Jollyville Road and Spicewood Springs Road, flat at the front and hillier toward Great Hills.
- The homes
- Two neighborhoods side by side. Oak Forest runs mostly along Oak Knoll Drive: flat at the front, then dropping into hills toward the back, where it borders Great Hills. Its homes are more substantial, with more interesting floor plans and more variety, mostly around 1,700 to 2,500 square feet and some larger. Barrington Oaks, built out between 1973 and 1983, is a smaller corner of the area and mostly flat. Milburn Homes built much of it as starter homes, so many floor plans repeat and the build quality is a step below Oak Forest's.
- Schools people ask about
- Split by address. Many homes on the south side of Oak Knoll Drive are Austin ISD. Farther back, the area is Round Rock ISD and most of it feeds Caraway Elementary (formerly North Oaks Elementary), then Canyon Vista Middle School and Westwood High School; few homes here feed Laurel Mountain. Confirm by address.
- Getting around
- Barrington Oaks is entered off Barrington Way, just south of Spicewood Springs Road. The Oak Forest side is entered off Jollyville Road.
- Nearby
- The Northwest Balcones and Oak View neighborhood park trails, and a City of Austin pool off Spicewood Springs Road that city residents can use. No neighborhood pool of its own.
- The trade-off
- No golf course, preserve or club: a practical neighborhood rather than a scenic one. Barrington Oaks is flatter and more uniform; the back of Oak Forest picks up Great Hills-style topography.
The method
How we do it in Oak Forest & Barrington Oaks
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