Real estate
BY GRACE DICKENS
Home Edition
2026
Readers, welcome to your annual CI Home Edition! This year, our annual housing-focused issue is packed with stories impacting your community. In our lead story this month, we dive deeper into Austin ISD’s decision to repurpose 10 campuses in response to ongoing budget issues and declining enrollment. Beyond our cover story, you can find the latest on Austin’s potential 2026 bond and helpful insights how home remodeling can help seniors age in place from Texas Construction. As always, thank you for your readership!
What's inside
See more on three drainage- improvement projects affecting Northwest Austin (Page 12)
Grace Dickens Editor gdickens@ communityimpact.com
Check out Austin’s plans for a potential bond that could support housing (Page 13)
Find out more about aging in place from Texas Construction (Page 14)
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Local housing market trends From bustling retail developments to housing, the Northwest Austin area has seen a lot of change in the past nine years. Here’s how the single-family housing market has fared.
SOURCE: REALTOR.COM/COMMUNITY IMPACT
Months of inventory is a term used to describe how long it would take for the amount of homes on the market to be sold, according to the National Association of Realtors. Six months is considered a balanced market between buying and selling power.
Median home sale prices have on average increased since 2017, with ZIP code 78730 topping out the market at $1.15 million and ZIP code 78758 bringing up the rear at $387,250.
78730 78759
78726 78750 78727 78729 78758
78730 78759 78726 78750 78727 78729 78758
8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
$1.5M
Balanced market
$1.2M
$900K
$600K
$300K
$0
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NORTHWEST AUSTIN EDITION
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