Castle Hill, where nothing historic is for sale
Thirty nine acres named for an 1869 castle, a boundary the City draws parcel by parcel, and a market in which every listing postdates the period the district protects.
10 homes for sale in Castle Hill
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Castle Hill right now
Every residential listing whose location falls inside the Old West Austin planning area, between Blanco Street and Baylor Street, from West 6th up to West 12th, in 78703. That is the boundary the City of Austin publishes, cut along the street centerlines the Census records, which is how one planning area serves several neighborhoods without any page guessing. From Unlock MLS through MLS Grid as of October 13, 2026 at 10:55 AM CDT. Closed sale prices are not shown: Texas is a non-disclosure state, so every figure here comes from asking prices and days since listing.
- For sale
- 10
- Median asking
- $1,309,950
- Median per sq ft
- $821
- Median days listed
- 35
All 10 of them, newest first. Sort by price either way below. Everything across 78703, filters and all, is on its market page.
1120 7th
$1,274,900
Single Family Residence · 78703 · 9 days · listed by Moreland Properties
1000 Baylor
$5,250,000
Single Family Residence · 78703 · 16 days · listed by Keller Williams Realty
1111 10th #203
$225,000
Condominium · 78703 · 24 days · listed by Dana Fadal Realty
1115 10th #209
$325,000
Condominium · 78703 · 30 days · listed by Compass RE Texas, LLC
807 Blanco #204
$350,000
Condominium · 78703 · 32 days · listed by Keller Williams Realty
1111 12th #107
$1,345,000
Condominium · 78703 · 37 days · listed by Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty
1006 Baylor #303
$3,785,000
Condominium · 78703 · 38 days · listed by Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty
1006 Baylor #201
$3,250,000
Condominium · 78703 · 38 days · listed by Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty
1006 Baylor #202
$2,990,000
Condominium · 78703 · 38 days · listed by Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty
1106 6th #206
$699,000
Townhouse · 78703 · 82 days · listed by Christies Intl Real Estate Lone Star
Listed by Christies Intl Real Estate Lone Star; Compass RE Texas, LLC; Dana Fadal Realty; Keller Williams Realty; Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty; Moreland Properties.
1869
A military school built a castle
James Raymond was the last treasurer of the Republic of Texas and then the first treasurer of the State, and he owned two hundred acres west of downtown. He sold thirty two of them to the Texas Military Institute, which in 1869 put up the castellated building that everything here is named after.
Two years later Raymond platted Raymond Heights along West 6th Street, large lots, and the first subdivision in West Austin. The second wave of building came later and came from transport: once working people could get out here, they did, which is why a district of this size holds so many small houses rather than only large ones.
1871 is worth pausing on. The same year Raymond was selling large lots along West 6th, a few hundred metres west a freedman named Charles Clark bought two acres from a Confederate general and sold them off in pieces to other people who had been enslaved. That became Clarksville. Two subdivisions, one year, adjoining land, entirely opposite purposes, and today both sit inside the same City planning area.
A boundarydrawn parcelby parcel,not by street.
The designation
One hundred and sixteen of one hundred and seventy five
Castle Hill is a City of Austin local historic district, adopted by ordinance, and that is a different and stronger thing than the National Register listing that covers Old West Austin further north. It runs about 39 acres and holds 175 properties, of which 116 were judged contributing when it was designated. Inside it are 16 individual city landmarks, including Fire House No. 4 and one of the surviving Moonlight Towers, at West 12th and Blanco.
The period of significance runs 1870 to 1960. That is the span the designation exists to protect, and it is the number to hold on to for the next section.
Two consequences for a buyer. The rules here apply to exterior work visible from the street, not only to demolition, so a renovation is a review rather than a permit. And whether any of it applies to a particular property is a recorded fact about that parcel rather than a judgment about the neighborhood, which makes it one of the few questions in central Austin with a definite answer.
Counted
Not one listing is from the period
Everything inside the boundary as of October 13, 2026 at 10:55 AM CDT, cheapest first, with the year each was built beside it. Compare that column against 1870 to 1960.
| Asking | Built | Sq ft | Per sq ft | Street | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $225,000 | 1972 | 300 | $750 | 1111 10th | Active |
| $325,000 | 1972 | 798 | $407 | 1115 10th | Active |
| $350,000 | 1969 | 615 | $569 | 807 Blanco | Active |
| $699,000 | 1979 | 1,146 | $610 | 1106 6th | Active |
| $1,274,900 | 1910 | 1,602 | $796 | 1120 7th | Active |
| $1,345,000 | 1981 | 1,592 | $845 | 1111 12th | Active |
| $2,990,000 | 2025 | 3,281 | $911 | 1006 Baylor | Active |
| $3,250,000 | 2025 | 3,575 | $909 | 1006 Baylor | Active |
| $3,785,000 | 2025 | 3,290 | $1,150 | 1006 Baylor | Active |
| $5,250,000 | 1925 | 1,928 | $2,723 | 1000 Baylor | Active |
2 of the 10 listings inside the district were built within its period of significance, which is unusual here and worth acting on: for long stretches there is nothing from the period for sale at all.
And a warning about every figure above. 3 of the 10 listings are units at one address, 1006 Baylor. A median across this table reports one building’s pricing more than it reports a neighborhood, and the spread from top to bottom runs 23 to one with nothing in the middle of it. Treat the table as a list of what exists, which it is, and not as a market, which it is not.
The Old Enfield page sets out at length why samples this small mislead. Every figure here is an asking price: Texas is a non disclosure state and closed prices are not published.
Honestly
Who Castle Hill is wrong for
- A buyer who wants a contributing historic house
- There is not one for sale inside this boundary right now, and there frequently is not. Everything listed is attached housing, and as the table shows every unit postdates the period the district exists to protect. That does not mean they never come up. It means a standing alert and a willingness to move quickly are the strategy here, not a weekend search, and that the thing you want is scarcer than the district's reputation suggests.
- Anyone who needs to know whether a specific lot is in
- This is the one neighborhood where that question has a precise answer, and it is not on this page. The district was adopted by ordinance with a parcel by parcel map, and it records for each of its 175 properties whether the property contributes. A street centerline approximation like the one behind the table above cannot tell you. The City's historic preservation office and its own maps can, and the answer changes what a project needs, so get it before the option period rather than during it.
- Someone planning to scrape and rebuild
- Local historic district rules are the real kind, not the honorary kind, and they apply to exterior work that is visible from the street as well as to demolition. New construction does happen inside the district and the table above has units from this decade in it, so it is not impossible. It is a design review with neighbors who turn up, on a timeline you should price before you buy rather than discover afterwards.
- A buyer reading the median here as a market
- Do not. The listings inside this boundary are few, they are all attached, and a third of them are units in a single building. A median across that describes one developer's pricing decision more than it describes Castle Hill. The spread below runs more than twenty to one and there is no middle in it at all.
Drag to pan, pinch or use the buttons to zoom. Hover a price for a preview and click it for the listing, or tap it on a touchscreen. Every one of these is also in the grid above.
The boundary
The one boundary here that is exact
Most neighborhoods on this site have no published boundary at all. Bryker Woods has three descriptions that contradict each other and Deep Eddy has none. Castle Hill is the reverse. Its boundary was adopted by ordinance, it is drawn parcel by parcel, and it records for each of 175 properties whether that property contributes to the district.
Which means the selection behind the table above is an approximation of something exact rather than a stand in for something missing. It takes the City’s Old West Austin planning area between the Blanco Street and Baylor Street centerlines, south of West 12th and north of West 6th, inside 78703. The district is described as running between West 6th and West 12th, along and between Blanco and Baylor, so the north, south and general east and west are right.
The word a street centerline cannot honor is along. A property fronting the far side of Blanco or Baylor is in the district and outside this selection. 806 Blanco Street is exactly that case: it sits across the road from 807 Blanco, which is in the table above, and it is not. So if the question is whether one specific parcel is in the district and whether it contributes, this page cannot answer it and does not try. The City’s historic preservation office can, from the ordinance map, and that answer is the one that governs a project.
Nearby
The rest of 78703
- TarrytownLake Austin to the west, MoPac to the east, and one name covering both the cheapest condominiums in the ZIP and its most expensive houses.
- Deep EddyThe oldest swimming pool in Texas, a resort the Depression took, and a market with four condominiums under four hundred thousand and nothing at all between there and a million.
- Bryker WoodsCottages on small lots from the late 1930s, named by mashing two developers' surnames together, and the neighborhood in the ZIP whose edges nobody agrees on.
- Pemberton HeightsThe grandest of the three neighborhoods the Pease family firm laid out, on deep lots under the ZIP's heaviest canopy, between Windsor Road and Northwood.
- ClarksvilleThe oldest surviving freedman's town in Texas, founded in 1871 on two acres bought from a Confederate general, and now a few blocks where a condominium costs a fraction of a house.
- Old EnfieldThe oldest and smallest of the west-side neighborhoods, between Enfield Road and 15th, where almost nothing comes up for sale in a given month.
Everything for sale across the ZIP, with filters, is on the 78703 market page.
Working here
A local historic district is not the honorary kind
Castle Hill is a City local historic district adopted by ordinance, which is a different and stronger thing than a National Register listing. The rules reach exterior work visible from the street, not only demolition, and whether they apply to a particular house is recorded parcel by parcel along with whether that house contributes to the district. A renovation here is a design review with a timeline, and the timeline is the part people fail to price.
So the first thing I do on a purchase here is pull the designation status for the parcel and tell you what it permits, before the option period runs rather than during it. The second is to be straight about the inventory: what is listed in this district is overwhelmingly attached housing built well after the period the designation protects. If you came for one of the early houses, that is a waiting game, and I will say so rather than sell you the nearest available thing.
If that is the kind of help you want on a purchase or a sale here, start a conversation.
Listings courtesy of Unlock MLS as distributed by MLS GRID
Based on information submitted to the MLS GRID as of October 13, 2026 at 10:55 AM CDT. All data obtained from various sources and may not have been verified by broker or MLS GRID.
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