Bastrop Real Estate

Bastrop is the Bastrop County seat, about 30 miles southeast of downtown Austin on SH 71, where the Old San Antonio Road crossed the Colorado River and the Lost Pines begin. It was laid out in 1832, seven years before Austin, and 131 buildings and sites in its downtown of brick storefronts and 19th-century houses are on the National Register of Historic Places. The homes for sale run from those historic blocks to post-war neighborhoods, pine-shaded subdivisions on large lots east of the river, newer master-planned communities on the west side, and acreage in every direction, and the SH 71 corridor between here and Austin has drawn some of the region's largest new employers in the last five years. [Read more about Bastrop...]

Bastrop Homes for Sale

126 & 120 Horseshoe Drive

$179,995

Bastrop, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 856 Sqft, 0.69 Acres
Residential
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

Lot 539 Kaaawa Lane

$54,995

Bastrop, TX
0.31 Acres
Land
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

Lot 376 Palikea Circle

$48,995

Bastrop, TX
0.3 Acres
Land
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

212 Makaha Drive

$575,000

Bastrop, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 2171 Sqft, 0.24 Acres
Residential
Coldwell Banker Realty

156 Lone Star Circle

$199,500

Bastrop, TX
3.98 Acres
Land
Keller Williams Realty

Lot 189 Kaelupulu Drive

$38,995

Bastrop, TX
0.3 Acres
Land
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

Lot 539 Palikea Circle

$48,995

Bastrop, TX
0.31 Acres
Land
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

Lot 118 W Keomuku Lane

$54,995

Bastrop, TX
0.34 Acres
Land
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

251 Iva Lane

$54,995

Bastrop, TX
0.33 Acres
Land
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

160 Helemano Drive

$54,995

Bastrop, TX
0.34 Acres
Land
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

REDUCED

127 Maddy Way

$749,900

Bastrop, TX
5 Bed, 5 Bath, 3794 Sqft, 0.21 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc

142 Kildrummy Pass

$529,900

Bastrop, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 2180 Sqft, 0.14 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc

158 Kingswood Drive

$734,900

Bastrop, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3080 Sqft, 0.22 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc

126 Kildrummy Pass

$532,900

Bastrop, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2169 Sqft, 0.13 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc

REDUCED

166 Maddy Way

$699,900

Bastrop, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3346 Sqft, 0.22 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc

REDUCED

153 Kingswood Drive

$824,900

Bastrop, TX
5 Bed, 5 Bath, 3593 Sqft, 0.22 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc

195 Kahana Lane

$67,000

Bastrop, TX
0.23 Acres
Land
Keller Williams - Lake Travis

157 Lakeside Drive

$265,000

Bastrop, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1292 Sqft, 0.54 Acres
Residential
Stanberry Realtors

Lot 1252 Tba Hanauma Drive

$67,000

Bastrop, TX
0.38 Acres
Land
Stanberry Realtors

1045 W Sh 71 Highway

$1,190,000

Bastrop, TX
6 Bed, 4 Bath, 3840 Sqft, 7.01 Acres
Residential
Venture Partners R.e.

1045 W Sh 71 Highway

$1,190,000

Bastrop, TX
7.01 Acres
Land
Venture Partners R.e.

000 Long Shadow Drive

$69,990

Bastrop, TX
0.3 Acres
Land
Spyglass Realty

183 Weaver Lane

$359,900

Bastrop, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 1976 Sqft, 0.14 Acres
Residential
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

216 George Neggan Lane

$279,000

Bastrop, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 1912 Sqft, 0.13 Acres
Residential
Epique Realty Llc

372 Plum Street

$440,000

Bastrop, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2235 Sqft, 0.75 Acres
Residential
Austin Options Realty

314 Green Oaks Drive Lot 14-b

$230,000

Bastrop, TX
2.52 Acres
Land
Land Unlimited

106 Nandina Path

$384,900

Bastrop, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 1896 Sqft, 0.18 Acres
Residential
Lgi Homes

118 Millsaps Court

$335,000

Bastrop, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1808 Sqft, 0.2 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

118 Trailstone Drive

$275,000

Bastrop, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1406 Sqft, 0.11 Acres
Residential
Venture Partners R.e.

911 Fm 1441

$490,000

Bastrop, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 1861 Sqft, 3.26 Acres
Residential
Venture Partners R.e.

REDUCED

147 Konahuanui Lane

$525,000

Bastrop, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2146 Sqft, 0.52 Acres
Residential
Amazing Realty Llc

148 Helemano Drive

$54,995

Bastrop, TX
0.34 Acres
Land
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

159 Helemano Drive

$54,995

Bastrop, TX
0.27 Acres
Land
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

156 Helemano Drive

$54,995

Bastrop, TX
0.32 Acres
Land
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

1603 Gordon Street

$220,000

Bastrop, TX
0.36 Acres
Land
Watters International Realty

103 Arborvita Place

$685,000

Bastrop, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 2442 Sqft, 0.25 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams - Lake Travis

310 Antelope Trail

$335,000

Bastrop, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2500 Sqft, 0.16 Acres
Residential
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

108 Mountain Laurel Way

$425,000

Bastrop, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 2028 Sqft, 0.38 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams - Lake Travis

107 Keawakapu Drive

$599,900

Bastrop, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2250 Sqft, 0.64 Acres
Residential
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

113 Pinyon Pine Drive

$423,584

Bastrop, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2229 Sqft, 0.15 Acres
Residential
David Weekley Homes

Tbd Okoe Court

$30,000

Bastrop, TX
0.3 Acres
Land
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

123 Mokuleia Circle

$42,995

Bastrop, TX
0.3 Acres
Land
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

142 Helemano Drive

$54,995

Bastrop, TX
0.33 Acres
Land
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

172 Helemano Drive

$56,995

Bastrop, TX
0.3 Acres
Land
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

Tbd Hwy 304

$425,000

Bastrop, TX
2 Acres
Land
Keller Williams Brazos West

513 Fm 2336

$189,000

Bastrop, TX
3 Bed, 1 Bath, 1280 Sqft, 0.66 Acres
Residential
Gold Realty

REDUCED

155 Michele Drive

$224,900

Bastrop, TX
2 Bed, 1 Bath, 1059 Sqft, 1.25 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

157 Tahitian Drive

$329,900

Bastrop, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 1948 Sqft, 0.28 Acres
Residential
Berkshire Hathaway Tx Realty

Bastrop, Texas Lifestyle

Main Street and the River

Downtown Bastrop is Main Street and the grid around it, most of it rebuilt after an 1862 fire and little changed since: 131 buildings and sites went onto the National Register in 1979, the courthouse is from 1883, and the Texas Historical Commission runs its Main Street program here. It works as a real downtown, with restaurants, galleries, the opera house and the Saturday crowds, and it sits directly above the river. Fisherman's Park at the end of Farm Street is the put-in and take-out for two state paddling trails, the June Hill Pape Riverwalk runs along the bank, and the Old Iron Bridge still crosses to the east side. Most of the city's newer retail is out on the SH 71 frontage west of the river, and the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines resort in Cedar Creek has anchored the corridor since 2006.

The Outdoors

The Lost Pines are the westernmost stand of the southern pine forest, an island of loblolly in the post oak country, and Bastrop State Park is the middle of them: about 6,000 acres on the east edge of town with CCC-built cabins from the 1930s, a pool, trails and a scenic overlook. The 2011 Bastrop County Complex Fire, the most destructive wildfire in Texas history, burned more than 34,000 acres including most of the park, and the forest is fifteen years into growing back; Buescher State Park, a few miles east, is the other half of the complex. On the water, the El Camino Real Paddling Trail runs six miles from Fisherman's Park down to the Lost Pines trails at Tahitian Village, the Wilbarger Paddling Trail runs 14 miles from the FM 969 bridge at Utley into town, and Bastrop County Nature Park in Tahitian Village adds seven and a half miles of trail along the river. Lake Bastrop, northeast of town, has North Shore and South Shore parks run by the LCRA, which also runs McKinney Roughs Nature Park on SH 71 to the west, and there are three 18-hole golf courses in and around the city. Trail details are on the state's paddling trail page and the Fisherman's Park page.

New Development

The change in Bastrop since 2021 is on the west side, along SH 71 and FM 1209 toward Austin. The Boring Company arrived in 2021, SpaceX's Starlink plant opened in 2023 and has since doubled to more than a million square feet with more than a thousand employees and a state-backed semiconductor expansion under way, X moved its headquarters to FM 1209 in 2024, and a company settlement has grown up around them about ten miles northwest of downtown. A $1.4 billion data center is going up at FM 535 and Wolf Lane in Cedar Creek, and a 546-acre film studio lot on the Colorado River broke ground in April 2026.

The housing has followed. Adelton, a master-planned community on the west side of town off SH 71, opened with the school district's newest elementary campus inside it in 2025. The Colony, the utility-district community on FM 969 between Bastrop and the county line, keeps adding phases around Colony Oaks Elementary. Farther west along SH 71, the SilverLeaf neighborhood is where the district is building its tenth elementary for 2027. Closer in, Hunters Crossing, Pecan Park and Piney Creek Bend are the city's newer subdivisions, and the district itself has added three campuses since 2023 after more than a decade without one.

Schools

Bastrop is in Bastrop ISD, a two-high-school district that splits roughly east and west: the city and the country beyond it feed Bastrop High School, while the SH 71 corridor, Cedar Creek, Red Rock and Rockne feed Cedar Creek High School, and each side has two middle schools as of 2026-27. The district has opened three elementary campuses since 2023, redrew its elementary and middle school boundaries in 2025, and will draw one more zone when the tenth elementary opens in 2027, so an address bought for a specific campus today should be checked against the current map and asked about before the offer. Confirm the assignment for a specific address on the district's map rather than on a listing.

History

Spanish soldiers held a post at the river crossing as early as 1804, and Stephen F. Austin, passing through in 1821, noted the pine timber and the fish. The town was established on June 8, 1832 as the principal settlement of his Little Colony, named for the Baron de Bastrop who had helped him win his grant, called Mina from 1834 to 1837, then incorporated under the Bastrop name on December 18, 1837. Three residents signed the Texas Declaration of Independence, and the town was burned in the Runaway Scrape and rebuilt. Timber from the Lost Pines was the economy for decades, supplying Austin from 1839, and the downtown that survived the 1862 fire was rebuilt in brick. The city had 9,688 people at the 2020 census and has grown quickly since, with the county rising from about 97,000 people in 2020 to an estimated 119,000 in 2025.

For Buyers

Bastrop is a fire and river town, and both belong in the option period. The 2011 fire took more than 1,600 homes, most of them in the pine subdivisions east and north of the city, so much of what is for sale in Tahitian Village and Circle D-KC Estates dates from the rebuild, and defensible space, insurance and the property's own fire history are worth reading before an offer. On the river, floodplain status is an address-level fact; the 2015 Memorial Day flood reached the state park dam, and the Colorado has its own maps.

Carrying costs vary more than list prices suggest. Property inside the city is on city water and sewer; the pine subdivisions and the county run on wells, water supply corporations and septic in different combinations; and the newer communities on the west side sit in their own utility districts, where dues can run at more than one level. Two homes at the same price can carry different monthly obligations, and the difference is not visible in the listing. Read the median with the same care, since new construction on the west side and large-acreage sales in the county each move it in a single quarter, and acreage in the pines should be compared on buildable ground, not gross acres.

Finally, verify your own address, including against any general description like this one. School boundaries here changed in each of the last two years, city limits and utility districts do not follow the ZIP code, and both are worth confirming before you write an offer. If you would like one of our Bastrop Realtors to check a specific property against the current school, fire and floodplain maps, or to compare Bastrop with Elgin and the rest of the county, reach out and we will set up a call.

By: Jim Olenbush
Area information last updated: August 2026