Pflugerville - Hutto Edition | July 2025

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The big picture

New home builds The Pugerville and Hutto area has a variety of housing projects underway.

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Several single-family housing projects are under construction in Pugerville and Hutto, amounting to 434 and 225 building permits issued this year, respectively. One of the larger neighborhoods is Blackhawk, which has over 4,000 proposed units, according to city of Pugerville records. Another, Carmel East, will add 954 additional homes and connect Carmel West by 2026, according to builder Ashton Woods. In Hutto, two built-to-rent projects are in progress, and another six neighborhoods are under construction, according to Director of Development Services Ashley Bailey. The 835-acre Flora project in north Hutto will eventually have 2,800 new homes, with some builders marketing houses as move-in ready. “Hutto is growing north, south, east and west,” Bailey said. “We’re denitely on the uptick with how development has been occurring here.” Many of Pugerville’s new single-family developments under construction are east of SH 130, where there is more open land available. While an array of housing types are coming into Pugerville, Assistant City Manager Emily Barron said there is a clear trend toward detached single- family homes, in part because infrastructure costs tend to support that product. Bailey said Hutto’s growth is tied to early land acquisitions by developers who bought before prices began rising. “Historically, our land prices were just a little bit lower,” she said. “I don’t think that’s going to be the same case going forward.” April Whitaker, regional president for Taylor Morrison, also cited land costs as the main factor in aordability. “I think in … the communities that we’re selling in, we acquired the land at a good price,” she said. “You have to start there.”

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Prairie Winds 7 Prairie Winds by Meritage Homes 8 Prairie Winds by Trophy Signature Homes Rolling Glen 9 Rolling Glen by Ashton Woods 10 Rolling Glen by Starlight Homes Blackhawk 11 Coventry Homes - Blackhawk 12 Chesmar Homes at Blackhawk Lakeside Meadows 13 Lakeside Meadows by Meritage Homes 14 Brightland Homes at Preserve at Lakeside Meadows Meadowlark Preserve 15 Lennar at Meadowlark Preserve Built-to-rent 16 Yardly Emory Crossing - Taylor Morrison 17 Yardly Kelly Lane - Taylor Morrison Carmel 18 Carmel East - Ashton Woods

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89.5% increase Active home listings in Pugerville and Hutto

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“They’re going to be hiring a lot of employees soon,” Daniel said. “So there’s going to be a higher demand for housing in the area—in Pugerville, Hutto, Taylor [and] even in east Round Rock.” Whitaker agrees that the regional draw adds to the desirability of the markets, in addition to having convenient access to major employers. “[Hutto is] still growing, but it’s growing quickly, as one of the faster-growing submarkets here in the nation, quite frankly,” Whitaker said.

Hutto is one of the fastest-growing cities in Texas, according to recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The city was listed as No. 13, with a population increase of 9.4% since 2023. Much of this growth is attributed to increased economic development in the area. In turn, both Daniel and Bailey point to major employers, such as Samsung Semiconductor in Taylor and Skybox Datacenters in Hutto, as additional drivers of land value and the current housing demand.

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