Real estate
BY BRITTANY ANDERSON
Home Edition
2025
Readers, welcome to your annual CI Home Edition! Home isn’t just where the heart is—it’s where change is happening. Our Annual Home Edition explores the surge in new home construction in the area, housing growth in the school district, garden and lawn tips, energy audits, proposed property tax cuts and residential market trends. We’re able to deliver this reporting thanks to the home service pros, remodelers, builders and Realtors who advertise with us. Please support them—they help us keep P ugerville and Hutto informed, inspired and connected.
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Learn how home energy audits work (Page 30)
Read about a ballot measure to cut property taxes (Page 33)
Check out the area’s monthly real estate data (Page 36)
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Report shows housing growth in PfISD
What else?
In the P ugerville-Wells Branch submarket, the multifamily occupancy rate is slightly higher than Austin at 83.8%. Rent rates in this region have also gone down 6.5-7%, Templeton said. Rates are softening across the greater Austin area as half of all apartment companies are o ering renters incentives to sign leases, he said. PfISD has nearly 4,900 multifamily units under construction, 500 of which are single-family rental homes. More than 6,400 future multifamily units are also in various planning stages. “I’m seeing the same type of numbers in Round Rock ISD, so it’s not just in P ugerville,” Templeton said. “There’s a surge in multifamily across the Austin region.”
The latest data shows home construction in P ugerville ISD is slightly higher than last year, but annual closings are slowing. Bob Templeton with Zonda Education provided the board of trustees with a rst quarter 2025 demographic update during the June 27 board meeting, which included housing data for the district. According to Zonda data, PfISD ranks 10th
out of 20 area districts, just after Hutto ISD, in annual closings. The report showed that PfISD had 746 single-family home starts and 795 home closings between April 2024 and April 2025. “So de nitely a little bit of a build up of inventory that will hopefully get sold and moved into ... ,” Templeton said.
New home starts and closings in P ugerville ISD, 2019-present Annual home starts and closings have fallen each year since 2019 in PfISD, but started to see an uptick in 2024.
2.5K 2K 1.5K 1K 500 0
Annual home starts Annual home closings
* REPRESENTS Q1 ONLY. SOURCES: PFLUGERVILLE ISD, ZONDA EDUCATION COMMUNITY IMPACT
2019
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2021 2022 2023 2024 2025*
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