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What it buys changes a lot from one side of town to the other. We pulled every sale between $760,000 and $840,000 in the last 90 days and compared five neighborhoods our agents live in. ## The short version | Neighborhood | Typical home | Size | Lot | Days on market | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Travis Heights | 1940s cottage, updated | 1,500–1,900 sqft | 0.15 ac | 9 | | Hyde Park | 1920s bungalow | 1,400–1,700 sqft | 0.14 ac | 7 | | Mueller | New townhome or small house | 1,800–2,200 sqft | 0.08 ac | 11 | | Barton Hills | 1970s ranch | 2,000–2,400 sqft | 0.25 ac | 13 | | Circle C Ranch | 2000s two-story | 2,800–3,100 sqft | 0.20 ac | 18 | ## Close in, or more house The trade is the one you'd expect. In Travis Heights and Hyde Park, $800,000 buys a smaller, older house you can walk to dinner from, and those homes go in a week. Drive twenty minutes to Circle C and the same money buys nearly twice the space and a newer roof, with less competition. Mueller sits in between: new construction, builder warranties and the lake park, on smaller lots. ## What we'd tell a friend Decide on the commute and the school first, then the square footage. Buyers who start with the house tend to end up rewriting their search after the third weekend of tours. Share this post [mailto:?subject=A%20note%20from%20Ashcombe%20%26%20Reed&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nopethemes.com%2Fporchlight%2Fblog%2Fwhat-800k-buys-in-five-austin-neighborhoods](mailto:?subject=A%20note%20from%20Ashcombe%20%26%20Reed&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nopethemes.com%2Fporchlight%2Fblog%2Fwhat-800k-buys-in-five-austin-neighborhoods) ![](https://www.nopethemes.com/hs-fs/hubfs/realestate-demo/agent-2.jpg?width=72&height=72&name=agent-2.jpg) Written by[Jason Miller](https://www.nopethemes.com/porchlight/blog/author/jason-miller) Jason works almost only with buyers in South Austin: Travis Heights, Bouldin Creek, Zilker and Galindo. 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