1303 Haynes Street
$299,000
San Marcos, TX
5 Bed, 3 Bath, 1761 Sqft, 0.22 Acres
Residential
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San Marcos Real Estate
San Marcos is the Hays County seat and the home of Texas State University, about 30 miles south of downtown Austin on I-35 and roughly the same distance from San Antonio. It is built around the San Marcos River, which rises from springs on the university campus and runs clear and cold through the middle of town, with the Hill Country starting on the west side and the outlet malls and the interstate on the south. Homes for sale run from older houses on the grid around the courthouse square and campus to master-planned communities on the edges of town, with acreage in the hills toward Wimberley. [Read more about San Marcos...]
Homes for Sale in San Marcos, Texas
Price, High to Low
432 Properties Found.
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761 Allison Lane
$4,250,000
San Marcos, TX
8 Bed, 11 Bath, 8600 Sqft, 38.94 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty
1951 Bridlewood Ranches Drive
$3,450,000
San Marcos, TX
6 Bed, 7 Bath, 6433 Sqft, 42.54 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Wimberley
2676 Post Road A & B
$2,890,000
San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 4157 Sqft, 40 Acres
Residential
Exp Realty, Llc
1750 Craddock Avenue
$2,400,000
San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 3162 Sqft, 57.11 Acres
Residential
Williams & Assoc.
5421 Purgatory Road
$1,900,000
San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1680 Sqft, 22.72 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc
510 Blanco River Ranch Road
$1,699,990
San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 4200 Sqft, 4.35 Acres
Residential
The Seely Group Llc
130 Thousand Oaks Loop
$1,395,000
San Marcos, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 1812 Sqft, 14.7 Acres
Residential
Solomon Group Real Estate
1030 Belvin Street
$1,350,000
San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 6 Bath, 6896 Sqft, 1.6 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc
330 Live Oak Hills Court
$1,250,000
San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 3427 Sqft, 12.52 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty
830 Palomino Lane 1
$1,100,000
San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 2613 Sqft, 4 Acres
Residential
Central Texas Trinity Realty
158 Condor Drive
$1,100,000
San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 3623 Sqft, 3.01 Acres
Residential
T J Lewis Real Estate
137 Sowing Oak Drive
$1,099,353
San Marcos, TX
2 Bed, 3 Bath, 2330 Sqft, 0.19 Acres
Residential
Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty N
530 Cascade Trail
$1,025,000
San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 4 Bath, 2952 Sqft, 7.04 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Wimberley
209 Cascade Trail
$1,000,000
San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 2361 Sqft, 5.01 Acres
Residential
Centex Realty Partners
1801 Uhland Road Cr161
$975,000
San Marcos, TX
7 Bed, 4 Bath, 4334 Sqft, 2.66 Acres
Residential
Asterra
125 Sowing Oak Drive
$950,000
San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 2505 Sqft, 0.19 Acres
Residential
Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty N
216 Skipping Cedar Street
$949,000
San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 3387 Sqft, 0.23 Acres
Residential
Realty Texas Llc
1000 Advance #2 Street
$939,000
San Marcos, TX
9 Bed, 6 Bath, 5548 Sqft, 1.21 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty
110 Purgatory Pass
$935,000
San Marcos, TX
2 Bed, 3 Bath, 1880 Sqft, 5 Acres
Residential
Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty
111 Clydesdale Drive
$899,000
San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2353 Sqft, 3.02 Acres
Residential
Kelly Right Real Estate Of Tex
2235 Summit Ridge Drive
$899,000
San Marcos, TX
6 Bed, 5 Bath, 4710 Sqft, 2.8 Acres
Residential
The Damron Group Realtors
2713 Leslie Lane
$899,000
San Marcos, TX
5 Bed, 6 Bath, 4174 Sqft, 2.64 Acres
Residential
Simms Frontier Real Estate
335 Deer Creek Drive
$890,000
San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 2636 Sqft, 2.08 Acres
Residential
Teifke Real Estate
224 Sweeping Sage Lane
$889,000
San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 2587 Sqft, 0.21 Acres
Residential
Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty N
113 Waving Muhly Drive
$884,900
San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 2856 Sqft, 0.18 Acres
Residential
Realty Texas Llc
601 Deertrail Drive
$875,000
San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 2 Bath, 3918 Sqft, 12 Acres
Residential
Austin Livin Llc
1642 Scull Road
$850,000
San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 2575 Sqft, 10.39 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty
622 Thousand Oaks Loop
$850,000
San Marcos, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 3360 Sqft, 6.95 Acres
Residential
Redfin Corporation
1100 Appalachian Trail
$849,000
San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 3188 Sqft, 5 Acres
Residential
The Damron Group Realtors
609 Dancing Oak Lane
$839,900
San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 3398 Sqft, 0.32 Acres
Residential
Lpt Realty, Llc
140 Gustav Lane
$834,990
San Marcos, TX
5 Bed, 3 Bath, 3193 Sqft, 1.06 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams City-view
407 Pioneer Trail
$830,000
San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 2634 Sqft, 5.1 Acres
Residential
Res And Ranch Llc
4680 Dreibrodt Road
$800,000
San Marcos, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 3300 Sqft, 11.3 Acres
Residential
Ts Realty
321 S Lbj
$800,000
San Marcos, TX
2 Bath, 2962 Sqft, 0.31 Acres
Residential
The Damron Group Realtors
125 Waving Muhly Drive
$800,000
San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 4 Bath, 2559 Sqft, 0.19 Acres
Residential
Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty N
236 Knockout Rose Drive
$799,900
San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3300 Sqft, 0.26 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc
500 Owl Hollow Road
$795,000
San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2080 Sqft, 13.8 Acres
Residential
Texas Crossway Realty , Llc
228 Deertrail Drive
$774,000
San Marcos, TX
5 Bed, 3 Bath, 2885 Sqft, 6.19 Acres
Residential
Century 21 Randall Morris & As
700 Oak Grove Road
$750,000
San Marcos, TX
19.97 Acres
Residential
Lacey Oak Realty
125 Frogfruit Way
$750,000
San Marcos, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 3504 Sqft, 0.22 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty
228 Knockout Rose Drive
$749,900
San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3295 Sqft, 0.26 Acres
Residential
Perry Homes Realty, Llc
326 Singing Sumac Way
$748,900
San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 2545 Sqft, 0.21 Acres
Residential
Hammer Real Estate Company
967 Falconwood Drive
$730,000
San Marcos, TX
5 Bed, 3 Bath, 2629 Sqft, 3 Acres
Residential
Realty One Group Prosper
143 Big Muhly Pass
$729,851
San Marcos, TX
5 Bed, 6 Bath, 4007 Sqft, 0.26 Acres
Residential
Era Experts
336 Calming Agave Way
$725,000
San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 4 Bath, 2360 Sqft, 0.2 Acres
Residential
Century 21 The Hills Realty
3900 Fm 1979
$720,000
San Marcos, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2668 Sqft, 4.82 Acres
Residential
Exp Realty, Llc
132 Bigtooth Maple Lane
$719,936
San Marcos, TX
4 Bed, 3 Bath, 3190 Sqft, 0.26 Acres
Residential
Era Experts
San Marcos, Texas Lifestyle
The River and the University
Two things organize San Marcos. The first is the river: more than 200 springs feed Spring Lake from the Edwards Aquifer, have never been known to stop flowing, and send the San Marcos River south past the university, the city parks and the neighborhoods east of downtown. Glass-bottom boats have run on Spring Lake since the Aquarena Springs days, now under the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, and Rio Vista Park's chutes and the river walkway are where the town goes when it is hot, which is most of the year.
The second is Texas State. It opened in 1903 as Southwest Texas State Normal School, enrolled a record 44,596 students in fall 2025, and joined the Pac-12 in July 2026. The campus sits on the hill above the square, so the university, the courthouse district and the river are all within a walk of each other, and the Square's music and restaurant scene lives off that. Beyond campus, the city's job base runs to the county government, the regional hospital, the outlet centers on I-35 south, a large distribution presence along the interstate, and the regional airport on the east side. Amtrak's Texas Eagle stops downtown.
The Outdoors
San Marcos has spent 25 years buying and protecting the land around its springs, and the result is a ring of natural areas that most cities this size do not have. Purgatory Creek Natural Area is 570 acres on the west side with more than 12 miles of trail between the Hunter Road trailhead and the upper entrance at Wonder World Drive, including an ADA loop added in 2019; Spring Lake Natural Area and Ringtail Ridge sit above the headwaters, Schulle Canyon is a 21-acre pocket in the middle of town, and Blanco Shoals is 81 undeveloped acres where the Blanco River passes under I-35. Details are on the city's parks site and the San Marcos Greenbelt Alliance, the nonprofit that maintains the trails. On the water, tubing and paddling start at City Park and Rio Vista and run downstream, and the Blanco joins the San Marcos River just south of town.
New Development
The master-planned wave reached San Marcos later than Kyle and Buda, and it arrived in three price bands at once in 2017 and 2018. La Cima covers more than 2,000 acres at Wonder World Drive and Old Ranch Road 12 on the west side, with roughly 800 acres of open space and a Central Park in the middle, more than 2,000 homes planned at build-out, and direct access to Purgatory Creek. Trace sits on the south side at I-35 and Posey Road with more than 1,000 home sites and Rodriguez Elementary inside it. Kissing Tree, at the southern tip of town off I-35, is a 55-and-over community built around a golf course; the age restriction applies to occupancy rather than ownership, with the usual verification and exceptions. Blanco Vista, on the north side along the Blanco River, is the older master-planned community and the one with a different school district, and Whisper is the newest name on the list. Closer in, the blocks around campus keep adding purpose-built rental housing, which is worth knowing when a "new construction" filter returns a lot of it.
Schools
Nearly all of San Marcos is in San Marcos CISD, a single-high-school district: seven elementary schools feed two middle schools, and both feed San Marcos High School, so the only assignment that varies by address in the long run is the elementary and middle school. The district opened a replacement Mendez Elementary in August 2026 and proposed elementary zone changes for 2026-27. The exception is Blanco Vista, which carries a San Marcos address but belongs to Hays CISD, the Kyle-and-Buda district, with an elementary campus of its own. Confirm the assignment for a specific address on the district's map rather than on a listing.
History
The Spanish tried first: San Marcos de Neve was founded on the Camino Real crossing in 1808 and abandoned by 1812 after floods and raids. Anglo settlement began in November 1846 near the springs, Hays County was organized on March 1, 1848 with San Marcos as its seat, and in 1851 Edward Burleson, William Lindsey and Eli Merriman laid out the town center on 640 acres of the old Veramendi grant, a mile southwest of the headwaters. Burleson's 1849 dam powered the mills that made the town a ginning and milling center, the railroad arrived in 1881, and the state put its new normal school on the hill in 1899. The city had 34,733 people in 2000 and 67,553 at the 2020 census, and the Census Bureau ranked it the fastest-growing city in the country in both 2013 and 2014.
For Buyers
Read the median with the university in mind. A large share of the housing near Texas State is investor-owned rental property, and sales around campus can pull the citywide median well away from what an owner-occupied house in Trace or La Cima costs. Search by school district and ZIP code together, and ask us to filter the comparables to owner-occupied sales before you decide what a house is worth.
Two lines do not follow the postmark. A San Marcos address is not automatically San Marcos CISD, because Blanco Vista is Hays CISD, and the city itself reaches into Caldwell and Guadalupe counties, so the county on the tax bill can surprise people too. Carrying costs vary as well: the newer communities on the south and west sides sit in their own utility districts on top of city and school levies, dues can run at more than one level, and acreage in the hills is often on well and septic. Two homes at the same price can carry different monthly obligations, and the difference is not visible in the listing.
The rivers are the reason people move here and the thing to check before you do. The Blanco and San Marcos rivers both flooded badly in 2015, and floodplain status is an address-level question worth settling before an offer, not after. Verify your own address, including against any general description like this one. If you would like one of our San Marcos Realtors to check a specific property against the current school and floodplain maps, or to compare San Marcos with Kyle and the rest of the corridor, reach out and we will set up a call.
By: Jim Olenbush
Area information last updated: August 2026
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