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Selling Your Home in Spicewood Estates & Balcones
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 Spicewood Estates & Balcones: what's different here
Selling in Spicewood Estates & Balcones means competing for the buyers who already want this part of Austin. Here the lot does a lot of the selling: wooded, larger lots west of 183, and in Balcones Village, golf frontage that has to be described carefully now that the Spicewood course is closed.
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 Spicewood Estates & Balcones 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 Spicewood Estates & Balcones, I'm weighing what buyers here actually pay for. Buyers come here for land and trees close in, the Spicewood Elementary or Laurel Mountain Elementary path into Canyon Vista and Westwood, and a quieter setting than Great Hills.
How I handle it in Spicewood Estates & Balcones
- A real market evaluation of what has sold and what is under contract in and around Spicewood Estates & Balcones, 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 Spicewood Estates & Balcones. 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 Spicewood Estates & Balcones
For the full picture of the neighborhood, see living in Spicewood Estates & Balcones. Questions about selling your home here? Call me at (512) 698-3525.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you price a home in Spicewood Estates & Balcones?
I start with what has sold and what is under contract in and around Spicewood Estates & Balcones, 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 Spicewood Estates & Balcones?
Yes. Every listing gets a Grand Opening open house within the first two weekends it's on the market.
Spicewood Estates & Balcones
What selling your home looks like in Spicewood Estates & Balcones
Wooded hills west of 183 between Spicewood Springs Road and Anderson Mill Road, with larger lots and Balcones Country Club at the center.
- The homes
- Spicewood Estates sits in wooded hills west of 183, with larger lots (many a quarter-acre or more) and a mix of original and updated homes. Locals count the pockets around it, like The Park at Spicewood Springs and the Mountain, as part of the same area. Balcones Village grew up around Balcones Country Club starting in the 1970s; golf-frontage and view lots carry a real premium over interior streets. The Spicewood golf course is closed, so Balcones Village now has two very different kinds of golf-frontage homes, and club membership is separate from buying a home.
- Schools people ask about
- Round Rock ISD. Much of the area feeds Spicewood Elementary, then Canyon Vista Middle School and Westwood High School; part of it, including The Park at Spicewood Springs and the Mountain, feeds Laurel Mountain Elementary instead. Confirm by address.
- Getting around
- The main road is 183: the neighborhoods sit west of it, between Spicewood Springs Road and Anderson Mill Road. MoPac is a good ten minutes or more away. Most work and errands don't need I-35. Balcones Village sits closer to the 620 side.
- Nearby
- The upper Bull Creek canyonlands, part of the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve, back the neighborhood. A trail runs from Spicewood Springs Road through St. Edward's Park and into a bird sanctuary, coming out near the top of Jester Estates. Bull Creek, St. Edward's Park, and Balcones Country Club (private, separate membership). City of Austin tennis courts and park nearby, and a city pool off Spicewood Springs Road that city residents can use.
- The trade-off
- Less day-to-day shopping close by than Great Hills. Some streets have slopes, but most are not steep. Homes vary a lot in condition and updates, street by street.
The method
How we do it in Spicewood Estates & Balcones
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