Georgetown Real Estate

Georgetown sits about 30 miles north of Austin on I-35, where the North and South forks of the San Gabriel River meet, and it has spent much of this decade as the fastest-growing city in the country. The Census Bureau gave it that title three years running — 2021, 2022, and 2023 — and the city passed 100,000 residents in 2025, up from roughly 67,000 at the 2020 census. What makes Georgetown unusual is that the growth landed around an intact nineteenth-century downtown rather than replacing it. The courthouse square is still the center of town, Southwestern University has been here since 1840, and the city's largest single neighborhood is an age-restricted community of roughly 9,500 homes. Housing runs from restored Victorians near the square to new construction in the $300s to golf-course estates past $1.5 million. [Read more about Georgetown...]

Georgetown Homes for Sale

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1704 S Walnut Street

$249,000

Georgetown, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1169 Sqft, 0.15 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty Lone St

REDUCED

419 White Steppe Way 58

$245,000

Georgetown, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 1406 Sqft, 0.03 Acres
Residential
Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty

NEW

200 Meadow Park Drive

$245,000

Georgetown, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1339 Sqft, 0.14 Acres
Residential
Pure Realty

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317 Essex Lane

$240,000

Georgetown, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 1397 Sqft, 0.12 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

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102 Portsmouth Drive

$239,000

Georgetown, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 1397 Sqft, 0.09 Acres
Residential
Rugg Realty Llc

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333 Portsmouth Drive

$238,900

Georgetown, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 1397 Sqft, 0.13 Acres
Residential
The Stacy Group, Llc

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334 Portsmouth Drive

$235,000

Georgetown, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 1397 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Exp Realty, Llc

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218 Juniper Street

$235,000

Georgetown, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1187 Sqft, 0.14 Acres
Residential
Robert Hilton, Broker

120 Evergreen Circle

$235,000

Georgetown, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1236 Sqft, 0.14 Acres
Residential
Magnolia Realty

281 Louisa Lane

$231,499

Jarrell, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 1483 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams City-view

273 Louisa Lane

$231,499

Jarrell, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 1483 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams City-view

445 Knute Rockne Way

$231,499

Jarrell, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 1483 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams City-view

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1017 Drovers Cove

$230,000

Georgetown, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1057 Sqft, 0.09 Acres
Residential
Realty Texas Llc

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109 Prairie Springs Cove

$229,900

Georgetown, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 910 Sqft, 0.28 Acres
Residential
Horizon Realty

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108 Prairie Springs Cove

$225,000

Georgetown, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 1660 Sqft, 0.17 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

NEW

607 E 19th Street

$225,000

Georgetown, TX
2 Bed, 1 Bath, 875 Sqft, 0.16 Acres
Residential
Sphere Realty

257 Louisa Lane

$216,499

Jarrell, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 1483 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams City-view

433 Knute Rockne Way

$210,499

Jarrell, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 1483 Sqft, 0.1 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams City-view

141 Texas Angel Way

$207,000

Jarrell, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 1450 Sqft, 0.11 Acres
Residential
Real Broker, Llc

REDUCED

3008 Whisper Oaks Lane B

$165,000

Georgetown, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 928 Sqft, 0.01 Acres
Residential
Lewis Properties

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3009 Whisper Oaks Lane C

$159,995

Georgetown, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 928 Sqft
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

NEW

205 Barberry Drive

$155,000

Georgetown, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1330 Sqft, 0.15 Acres
Residential
Classic Realty

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3012 Whisper Oaks Lane J

$115,000

Georgetown, TX
1 Bed, 1 Bath, 480 Sqft
Residential
Exp Realty, Llc

139 Crystal Springs Drive

 

Georgetown, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 1650 Sqft, 0.21 Acres
Residential
Tula Properties

30008 Oakland Hills Drive

 

Georgetown, TX
5 Bed, 3 Bath, 3076 Sqft, 0.18 Acres
Residential
1848txrealty

306 Kitty Hawk Road

 

Georgetown, TX
2 Bed, 3 Bath, 2043 Sqft, 0.17 Acres
Residential
Hd Realty Team

316 Cathedral Mountain Pass

 

Georgetown, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1889 Sqft, 0.18 Acres
Residential
The Stacy Group, Llc

NEW

112 Free Stone Drive

 

Georgetown, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 2851 Sqft, 0.13 Acres
Residential
Sprout Realty

Georgetown, Texas Lifestyle

The Square

Downtown is the reason many buyers stop in Georgetown rather than continuing up I-35. The courthouse square is ringed by Victorian-era commercial buildings that were restored rather than replaced, and the city bills it as the most beautiful town square in Texas. The Williamson Museum sits on the square, as does the Georgetown Palace Theatre — built as a movie house in 1925, rescued by a group of residents in the late 1990s, and now a nonprofit staging live musicals and plays year-round. Shops, galleries, and restaurants fill most of the surrounding storefronts.

Each April the square hosts the Red Poppy Festival, held for the twenty-seventh time in 2026, with more than 150 artisan vendors, a parade, and a car show. The poppies trace back to one soldier: Henry Purl "Okra" Compton mailed seeds home from Europe after World War I, they took hold in his mother's garden on Seventh Street, and they spread across town from there. Georgetown is one of the few places in the country where red poppies reseed themselves year after year, and the Texas Legislature named it the Red Poppy Capital of Texas in 1990.

The Outdoors

The San Gabriel River runs through the middle of Georgetown, and the trail system along it forms the spine of the city's parks. Blue Hole Park, a spring-fed swimming spot, and San Gabriel Park, with open green space and sports fields, are both within walking distance of the square. Garey Park on the west side covers several hundred acres donated to the city and includes equestrian facilities and a dog park. Lake Georgetown, formed by a dam on the North Fork, sits northwest of town with boat ramps, swimming, and the Goodwater Trail running roughly 26 miles around the shoreline. Inner Space Cavern, discovered in 1963 during construction of I-35, is two miles south of downtown and open daily for guided tours. Golf runs from the courses inside Sun City to the Jack Nicklaus Signature course at Cimarron Hills.

Sun City and the 55-Plus Market

Sun City Texas is the largest single component of Georgetown's housing market. The Del Webb development covers roughly 9,500 homes restricted to residents 55 and older, with its own golf courses, amenity centers, pools, and more than forty resident clubs. Georgetown's mayor has described it as a cruise ship on land, and the Wall Street Journal credited it with a substantial share of the city's growth surge.

For buyers, Sun City functions almost as a separate market with its own pricing and turnover. It also skews Georgetown's citywide statistics: both the median household income and the median sale price for the city as a whole are pulled by Sun City's volume, so a headline number for Georgetown may not describe the neighborhood you are actually shopping. Worth knowing before drawing conclusions from a citywide figure.

New Development

Most new construction is concentrated in a handful of master-planned communities. Wolf Ranch, west of I-35 and inside the city limits, is the flagship — roughly 16 miles of trails, a resort-style amenity center, and new construction from the low $300s into the $900s. It sits within two Georgetown municipal utility districts, which financed the amenities and appear on the tax bill. Parkside on the River covers about 1,500 acres along the San Gabriel with six builders, where lots start in the $540s and climb past $840,000 for the largest. Morningstar and Saddlecreek are also actively building.

At the upper end, Cimarron Hills is a gated, Troon-managed golf community built around a Jack Nicklaus Signature course, with a country club membership required of every homeowner and listings reaching past $1.6 million. Berry Creek is the established golf-course alternative closer in. We cover several Georgetown communities separately, including Rancho Sienna on the western edge, Wolf Lakes Village, and Heirloom Georgetown.

Schools

Most of Georgetown is served by Georgetown Independent School District, which enrolls roughly 14,000 students across eleven elementary campuses, four middle schools, two comprehensive high schools — Georgetown and East View — and Richarte High School. East View moved into 6A classification in 2026 after its enrollment passed the campus's designed capacity.

The district is working through a $649.5 million bond package approved by voters in 2024. A third comprehensive high school broke ground off DB Wood Road in late 2025. An elementary and a middle school were built off Patriot Way near SH 130, but trustees voted in February 2026 to delay opening them after enrollment growth came in below projection — a useful reminder that even in fast-growing districts, timelines move. Georgetown ISD is also redrawing attendance boundaries for the 2026-27 school year.

Not every Georgetown address is in Georgetown ISD. Parts of the western edge fall within Liberty Hill ISD, and parts of the south sit in Round Rock ISD. Confirm the assigned campuses for a specific address rather than assuming from the mailing city.

History

Georgetown was founded in 1848 as the seat of the newly formed Williamson County and named for George Washington Glasscock, who with his business partner Thomas Huling donated the land for the townsite. Southwestern University, chartered in 1840 and the oldest university in Texas, occupies a 700-acre campus just northeast of downtown and has shaped the city's cultural life for well over a century. The railroad arrived in 1878, and cotton drove the economy for decades — Williamson County was at one point the leading producer in the state. Repeated flooding on the San Gabriel eventually led to the dam that created Lake Georgetown. Roughly 180 buildings across the city are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which is why the older neighborhoods still read as a nineteenth-century town rather than a suburb.

For Buyers

Georgetown's median sale price was around $415,000 in May 2026, down roughly 3% year over year — but that headline needs context. Much of the decline reflects a high volume of new-construction closings in the $320,000 to $420,000 range in Sun City, Wolf Ranch, and Morningstar pulling the median down, rather than established homes losing value. In the $500,000 to $700,000 range, closer to the square and in communities like Berry Creek, prices have moved considerably less. Inventory has been running above 1,000 active listings with roughly six months of supply, which is buyer's-market territory by the conventional measure and generally means room to negotiate.

On carrying costs, Williamson County's effective property tax rate runs near 1.7%, and many of the newer communities layer municipal utility district assessments on top, so two homes at the same list price in different subdivisions can carry meaningfully different monthly obligations. Access is straightforward: I-35 runs south toward Austin, SH 130 offers a toll alternative around the east side, and Ronald Reagan Boulevard connects west and south toward Liberty Hill and Leander. Downtown Austin is typically 40 minutes to an hour depending on route and time of day.

By: Jim Olenbush
Area information last updated: August 2026