A pool terrace at dusk, stone coping and still water with planting beyond.

Deep Eddy, and the hole in the middle

The oldest swimming pool in Texas, a resort the Depression took away, and a market with two price levels and nothing between them.

19 homes for sale in Deep Eddyas of October 17, 2026 at 4:03 AM CDT

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Deep Eddy right now

Every residential listing whose location falls inside the West Austin Neighborhood Group planning area, south of Enfield Road, 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 17, 2026 at 4:03 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: 18
Median asking: $1,035,000
Median per sq ft: $542
Median days listed: 46

All 19 of them, newest first. Sort by price either way below. Everything across 78703, filters and all, is on its market page.

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Listed by Austin Marketing + Development; Compass RE Texas, LLC; Gottesman Residential R.E.; Horizon Realty; Joseph Companies, LLC; Moreland Properties; Peach Blossom Properties, LLC; Redfin Corporation; Resident Realty, LTD.; Sprout Realty; eXp Realty, LLC.

1902

A swimming hole, then diving horses

It was a deep eddy in the Colorado River before it was anything else. Mary and Henry Johnson set up the Deep Eddy Bathing Beach on the bank in 1902 and sold it in 1915 to A.J. Eilers, who poured the concrete pool where it still sits and built a resort around it: a Ferris wheel, movie nights, trapeze artists, and horses that dived into the water.

The Depression ended that. Eilers sold to the City of Austin in 1935, the structure you swim in now dates from July 1936, and the bathhouse is Works Progress Administration work from the same years. It is the oldest swimming pool in Texas, it is spring fed, and it is cold in August.

The houses went up around it in the same stretch of years. The oldest on the market inside this boundary right now was built in 1935, which is the year the City bought the pool. That is a coincidence rather than a cause, but it is a fair picture of the neighborhood: it was built while the resort was being turned into a park.

Two price levels.Nothing at allin between.

Counted

Two price levels, no middle

Every listing you can actually go and look at inside the boundary, cheapest first, as of October 17, 2026 at 4:03 AM CDT. Listings under contract are left off this table because the question is what is available, not what sold. They are included in the inventory block and in every median further down.

Active listings inside the Deep Eddy boundary, cheapest first, with the gap in the price ladder marked
Asking	Sq ft	Per sq ft	Built	Type
$339,900	858	$396	1983	Condo
$349,900	1,002	$349	1981	Condo
$370,000	1,044	$354	1963	Condo
$390,000	820	$476	1982	Condo
$860,000	1,821	$472	2006	Condo
$875,000	1,742	$502	2008	Other
$950,000	1,400	$679	1954	House
$989,000	1,536	$644	1951	House
$995,000	2,203	$452	1935	House
$1,075,000	1,816	$592	1960	House
$1,125,000	1,454	$774	1954	House
$1,250,000	2,752	$454	1953	House
$1,349,000	2,747	$491	2006	Condo
$1,475,000	2,176	$678	2027	Condo
$1,695,000	2,910	$582	1935	House
$2,095,000	2,960	$708	2015	House
$2,495,000	2,627	$950	2023	House
$3,750,000	4,070	$921	2024	House

The ladder currently runs without a dominant break in it, the largest single step being 2.21 times, from $390,000 to $860,000. That is unusual for this neighborhood, which more often has nothing at all listed in its middle, so it is worth looking now rather than later.

The bottom of the market here is tighter than the gap above it is wide. All 4 of the listings below the break sit within 1.15 times of each other, and they are condominiums rather than houses. So the choice in Deep Eddy is not really a price range. It is two products, priced a long way apart, and the decision is which one you are buying rather than how much you spend.

A ladder of this length is an illustration rather than a trend, and one arrival in the middle closes the hole. The Old Enfield page sets out why small samples mislead. The Tarrytown page is the same planning area north of Enfield Road and reaches the opposite conclusion, which is the point of splitting them.

A two-story residence at dusk, limestone and dark timber under a low roofline, its windows lit and live oaks overhead.

Honestly

Who Deep Eddy is wrong for

A buyer with a budget in the middle: This is the one to read twice. The table above has four things under four hundred thousand and then nothing until nearly a million. If your number is in between, Deep Eddy currently has nothing for you at any price you would want to pay, and the honest answer is to look at Bryker Woods or the south end of the ZIP rather than to wait here. That can change with one listing, which is worth a standing alert rather than a monthly search.
Anyone buying the condominiums as a way into a house later: The gap is the problem with that plan. Moving up inside this neighborhood means clearing roughly two and a half times what the condominiums trade at, and the places you would move into are mid-century houses on small lots that rarely come up. People do it, but it is a jump rather than a step, and it is worth knowing the shape of it before you buy the first one.
Someone who wants the pool to be a private amenity: Deep Eddy is a City of Austin public pool and has been since 1935, it is spring fed and cold year round, and on a hot Saturday the line and the parking are what you would expect of the oldest pool in Texas. That is a genuine pleasure of living here and it is also traffic on your street. Visit on a July weekend, not a April Tuesday.
A buyer who expects the Tarrytown comparables to apply: They mostly do not. Tarrytown as people describe it, Lake Austin Boulevard up to West 35th, contains this neighborhood, so a Tarrytown median blends lakefront houses several million dollars above anything here with condominiums below anything here. The pages are split at Enfield Road for exactly that reason. Comparables from north of Enfield need a reason, not just a shared name.

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The boundary

Nobody publishes a boundary for this one

The pool has a detailed history page and it names no streets. The realty descriptions place Deep Eddy “south of Tarrytown along the Colorado River”, which is a direction rather than an edge. The City of Austin publishes a planning area that covers the whole of this side of the ZIP without dividing it.

So this page takes the southern end of that planning area and cuts it at the Enfield Road centerline, inside 78703. What that leaves is a pocket you can see on the ground: Enfield to the north, MoPac to the east, Lake Austin Boulevard and the river to the south, Johnson Creek to the west. Everything in it is closer to the pool than to the middle of Tarrytown.

Which means the line is a choice, and worth being plain about. Tarrytown is usually described as running from Lake Austin Boulevard all the way up to West 35th Street, and on that description Tarrytown contains Deep Eddy rather than bordering it. Both pages cannot claim the same house, so the planning area is divided at Enfield and the Tarrytown page says so too. If a listing or a neighbor uses the names differently, they are not wrong, and the address is what settles anything that turns on it.

Nearby

The rest of 78703

Everything for sale across the ZIP, with filters, is on the 78703 market page.

Working here

A market with nothing in the middle

The hole this page is built around changes how you should search rather than merely being interesting. If your budget sits in the gap, waiting and watching a portal is the wrong strategy, because the thing you want appears rarely and goes quickly when it does. A standing alert on a tightly drawn boundary, and a willingness to look within days rather than weeks, is what actually works here. I would rather set that up than have you check a site every Sunday for a year.

On the other side of the gap, the mid-century houses, the question is almost always what the lot will carry. These are small parcels close to the river and the greenbelt, and the difference between a house you can extend and one you cannot is not obvious from the outside. Worth establishing before you fall for one.

If that is the kind of help you want on a purchase or a sale here, start a conversation.

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