Burnet Real Estate

Burnet is the seat of Burnet County, about 48 miles northwest of downtown Austin where US 281 meets SH 29, on the divide between the Colorado and Brazos watersheds. It is the Bluebonnet Capital of Texas by act of the Legislature, a courthouse-square town that grew up around an 1849 frontier fort, and the gateway to the biggest water in the Highland Lakes: Lake Buchanan and Inks Lake begin a few minutes west. Homes for sale run from older blocks near the square to newer subdivisions along the highways, lake places on the Buchanan side, and ranch acreage in every direction, generally at a different pace and price than the lake cities to the south. [Read more about Burnet...]

Burnet TX Homes for Sale

REDUCED

7400 Park Road 4 S

$9,000,000

Burnet, TX
7 Bed, 8 Bath, 14000 Sqft, 110 Acres
Residential
Horseshoe Bay Living 2, Llc

5525 Fm2340 Road

$7,995,000

Burnet, TX
574 Acres
Farm
Shipley Ranches

1115 County Road 204

$5,500,000

Burnet, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 2000 Sqft, 275 Acres
Farm
Carpenter Real Estate

NEW

6233 Cr 340

$4,950,000

Burnet, TX
6 Bed, 7 Bath, 4000 Sqft, 29.69 Acres
Farm
Moreland Properties

REDUCED

4220 County Road 202

$4,574,900

Burnet, TX
230.1 Acres
Farm
Coldwell Banker Apex

00 Westfall Drive

$4,000,000

Burnet, TX
40 Acres
Farm
Jim Berry Hill Ctry Rnch Sales

REDUCED

204 Hannahs Way

$3,550,000

Burnet, TX
6 Bed, 5 Bath, 4390 Sqft, 0.29 Acres
Residential
Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty

REDUCED

Tbd County Road 330

$2,999,900

Burnet, TX
100 Acres
Land
Cavalier Real Estate

10223 Fm963

$2,750,000

Burnet, TX
207 Acres
Farm
Shipley Ranches

REDUCED

131 Primera Court

$2,575,000

Burnet, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3554 Sqft, 1.13 Acres
Residential
Wes Campbell

Cr 208

$2,415,000

Watson, TX
161 Acres
Farm
Republic Ranches, Llc

REDUCED

418 County Road 119a

$2,290,000

Kingsland, TX
6 Bed, 6 Bath, 3846 Sqft, 0.62 Acres
Residential
Exp Realty, Llc

926 County Road 201

$2,250,000

Burnet, TX
80.54 Acres
Farm
Texas Ranch Brokers Llc

REDUCED

4237 County Road 330

$2,100,000

Burnet, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 3776 Sqft, 86.92 Acres
Farm
Zachary Biermann, Broker

Tbd S Hwy 281 & Pk Rd 4

$2,000,000

Burnet, TX
10 Acres
Land
Mcm Land Company Llc

REDUCED

409 County Road 138 Road

$1,999,999

Burnet, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 3302 Sqft, 19.09 Acres
Residential
Tom G. Wagner

REDUCED

104 Clear Creek Drive

$1,999,777

Burnet, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 3612 Sqft, 3.62 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

REDUCED

450 Threadgill Ranch Road

$1,995,000

Burnet, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 4592 Sqft, 30 Acres
Farm
Zina & Co. Real Estate

REDUCED

450 Threadgill Ranch Road

$1,995,000

Burnet, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 4592 Sqft, 30 Acres
Residential
Zina & Co. Real Estate

REDUCED

Tbd County Road 207

$1,950,000

Burnet, TX
93.99 Acres
Farm
Moreland Properties

Tbd County Road 207

$1,950,000

Burnet, TX
93.99 Acres
Land
Moreland Properties

REDUCED

2006 County Road 112

$1,925,000

Burnet, TX
107.5 Acres
Farm
Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty

101 Kelly Emeralds Road

$1,895,000

Burnet, TX
7 Bed, 6 Bath, 7166 Sqft, 2.9 Acres
Residential
All City Real Estate Ltd. Co

REDUCED

8901 County Road 108

$1,895,000

Burnet, TX
2 Bed, 3 Bath, 2295 Sqft, 43.87 Acres
Farm
Shipley Ranches

REDUCED

1500 Greer Lane

$1,875,000

Burnet, TX
6 Bed, 4 Bath, 5354 Sqft, 12.1 Acres
Residential
Crossings Real Estate, Llc

REDUCED

401 Hilltop Drive

$1,800,000

Burnet, TX
76.13 Acres
Farm
Douglas Elliman Real Estate

125 W Granite Oaks Drive

$1,795,000

Burnet, TX
2 Bed, 3 Bath, 1480 Sqft, 39.03 Acres
Residential
Re/max Of Marble Falls

REDUCED

465 County Road 139

$1,750,000

Burnet, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 4580 Sqft, 0.62 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty Lone St

1200 Long Mountain Drive

$1,750,000

Burnet, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2700 Sqft, 0.42 Acres
Residential
Lakes And Hills Realty

000 John Deere Road

$1,700,000

Burnet, TX
87.04 Acres
Land
Keller Williams Realty Lone St

Tbd Cr 110 Road

$1,608,360

Burnet, TX
61.86 Acres
Land
Ranch Investments

REDUCED

2037 Wolf Creek Ranch Road

$1,590,000

Burnet, TX
2 Bed, 1 Bath, 2225 Sqft, 23.07 Acres
Farm
Exp Realty, Llc

103 Hessie Avenue

$1,550,000

Burnet, TX
3 Bed, 4 Bath, 2129 Sqft, 1.75 Acres
Residential
Spyglass Realty

REDUCED

517 Waterway Lane

$1,535,000

Burnet, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 2524 Sqft, 1.39 Acres
Residential
Ruzicka Real Estate

REDUCED

1108 S Lakeside Drive

$1,499,000

Burnet, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1720 Sqft, 0.37 Acres
Residential
Exp Realty, Llc

235 Chestnut Crossing

$1,499,000

Burnet, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3864 Sqft, 18.43 Acres
Residential
Kw-austin Portfolio Real Estate

5434 County Road 335

$1,490,000

Burnet, TX
1 Bed, 1 Bath, 974 Sqft, 52.5 Acres
Farm
Congress Realty, Inc.

4237 County Road 330 Road

$1,475,000

Burnet, TX
51 Acres
Farm
Zachary Biermann, Broker

111 Marissa Circle

$1,400,000

Burnet, TX
3 Bed, 4 Bath, 3464 Sqft, 10 Acres
Residential
Coldwell Banker Apex

REDUCED

1225 Waterway Lane

$1,399,900

Burnet, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 3207 Sqft, 1.24 Acres
Residential
Listing Results, Llc

1283 Rattlesnake Trail

$1,399,000

Burnet, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 2153 Sqft, 49.58 Acres
Residential
Real Broker, Llc

220 Eagle Ridge

$1,355,000

Burnet, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3514 Sqft, 4.43 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

REDUCED

2015 E State Highway 29

$1,325,000

Burnet, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 4124 Sqft, 10 Acres
Residential
Crossings Real Estate, Llc

503 County Road 142

$1,299,000

Burnet, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 3606 Sqft, 0.7 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Heritage

REDUCED

3514 Fm 3509

$1,295,000

Burnet, TX
5 Bed, 6 Bath, 5187 Sqft, 14.87 Acres
Residential
Let's Move Austin Llc

REDUCED

3514 Fm 3509

$1,295,000

Burnet, TX
5 Bed, 6 Bath, 5187 Sqft, 14.87 Acres
Farm
Let's Move Austin Llc

320 Park Lane

$1,250,000

Burnet, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2361 Sqft, 1.5 Acres
Residential
Lake-land Realty Hill Country

NEW

265 Sunday Drive

$1,174,875

Burnet, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3615 Sqft, 0.52 Acres
Residential
City View Realty

Burnet, Texas Lifestyle

The Square and the Bluebonnets

The courthouse square is the center of town and of the calendar. The Bluebonnet Festival fills it the second weekend of every April, when the fields around Burnet do what the Legislature recognized in 1981 when it named this the Bluebonnet Capital of Texas, and the Hill Country Flyer excursion train runs from Cedar Park to the old depot a few blocks away. Fort Croghan, the 1849 outpost the town grew up around, survives as a museum on the west side, with its blacksmith shop, one-room schoolhouse, powder house and more than a thousand artifacts kept by the county historical society. Out at the municipal airport, the Commemorative Air Force's Highland Lakes Squadron keeps warbirds in a hangar museum and flies them for the town every festival season. Burnet is also the county's working center, with the courthouse, the county offices and the everyday retail that serves the ranch country around it, and residents drive US 281 south to Marble Falls or SH 29 east toward Georgetown for the rest.

The Outdoors

The big lakes are Burnet's side of the Highland Lakes. Lake Buchanan, the largest in the chain, spreads west of town behind Buchanan Dam, with Canyon of the Eagles and the Vanishing Texas River Cruise working its wilder east shore, and it is a storage lake, so its level rises and falls with the drought cycle in a way the constant-level lakes downstream do not. Inks Lake, small and steady between Buchanan and Lake LBJ, carries Inks Lake State Park on Park Road 4, and the same park road leads to Longhorn Cavern State Park, the two-mile river-carved cavern the Civilian Conservation Corps opened up in the 1930s, eleven miles southwest of the square. In town, Hamilton Creek Park strings a trail along the creek below the square, Delaware Springs is the city's own 18-hole municipal golf course, and the Galloway-Hammond Recreation Center covers the courts and pools.

New Development

Growth has reached Burnet later and lighter than the towns to its south and east, which is part of the appeal for buyers priced out of them. The movement is along the highways: new subdivisions on the US 281 corridor between Burnet and Marble Falls, where the school district line crosses the highway and new communities sit on both sides of it, and pressure building from the east as Liberty Hill's expansion works up SH 29 toward Bertram. The school district read the same map, and its May 2026 bond bought land for a future elementary and middle school near Bertram while rebuilding the middle school in town. Closer in, the pattern is modest: infill around the square, small subdivisions off the highways, and lake and ranch parcels trading as they always have.

Schools

Burnet is the headquarters of Burnet CISD, a six-campus district with one of the simplest maps in the region: the Burnet-side elementaries are grade-banded rather than zoned, with every young student attending Shady Grove and then R.J. Richey, Bertram runs its own PreK-5 campus, and everyone merges at Burnet Middle School and Burnet High School. Voters approved a $135 million bond in May 2026 that rebuilds the middle school around a new 900-student academic building, expands R.J. Richey, and buys land near Bertram for future campuses. The line to respect is the district boundary itself, especially the seam with Marble Falls ISD on US 281 south of town. Confirm the assignment for a specific address on the district's maps rather than on a listing.

History

Burnet began as protection. Texas Rangers under Henry McCulloch camped on the site in 1847, the federal government replaced them in March 1849 with Fort Croghan, third in the chain of forts guarding the frontier from Fort Worth to the Rio Grande, and the settlers the fort attracted stayed after the soldiers left. The town was laid out in 1852 as Hamilton, the year the county was created, and renamed in 1858 for David G. Burnet, the first provisional president of the Republic of Texas, because the state already had a Hamilton. A Mormon colony under Lyman Wight milled at the falls of Hamilton Creek from 1851, and the Austin and Northwestern Railroad arrived in 1882, making Burnet the shipping point for the granite, cotton and cattle country around it, with track reaching Granite Mountain, Marble Falls and Lampasas by 1903. The town has stayed the county's civic center ever since, counting about 6,100 residents at the 2020 census, and the lakes that arrived in the 1930s turned its west side into recreation country.

For Buyers

Know which lake you are buying on. Lake Buchanan is a storage reservoir, so waterfront there is priced and lived on differently than the constant-level lakes downstream: the shoreline moves, docks and access reflect it, and a drought-cycle view of the lake's history belongs in the option period. Inks Lake holds steady but is small, with the state park anchoring it. On either, the LCRA's shoreline rules apply, and off the water, most property outside the city limits runs on wells and septic or a water supply corporation.

Check the lines before the house. The 78611 ZIP code covers lake and ranch country far beyond the city, the school district's seam with Marble Falls ISD crosses US 281 right where the corridor is building, and acreage should be compared on buildable, out-of-floodplain ground rather than gross acres. Read the median loosely as well, since town lots, lake places and ranch land share one small data set here, and a few large sales move it in any quarter. Finally, verify your own address, including against any general description like this one. If you would like one of our Burnet Realtors to check a specific property against the current district maps, the shoreline rules and the utilities, or to compare Burnet with Marble Falls and the rest of the Highland Lakes, reach out and we will set up a call. The town's story is in the Handbook of Texas and on the state's Texas Time Travel page.

By: Jim Olenbush
Area information last updated: August 2026