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Galindo, where the sticker price tells you least

The cheapest square footage in 78704is here, and most of the neighborhood’s condominium listings turn out to be one association in disguise.

23 homes for sale in Galindoas of October 17, 2026 at 8:53 AM CDT

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Galindo right now

Every residential listing whose location falls inside the Galindo planning area, in 78704. That is the boundary the City of Austin publishes, and the one this page uses. From Unlock MLS through MLS Grid as of October 17, 2026 at 8:53 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: 23
Median asking: $619,900
Median per sq ft: $426
Median days listed: 81

All 23 of them, newest first. Sort by price either way below. Everything across 78704, filters and all, is on its market page.

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Listed by All City Real Estate Ltd. Co; Beycome Brokerage Realty LLC; Bramlett Partners; Christies Intl Real Estate Lone Star; Coldwell Banker Realty; Compass RE Texas, LLC; Douglas Elliman Real Estate; Keller Williams Realty; Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty; LPT Realty LLC - Ascend Group; MODUS Real Estate; Pure Realty; Redfin Corporation; Teri Johnson Properties; Tower Realty Austin; Tranzon Asset Advisors of Texa.

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Where it is

Between two serious roads

Galindo runs from Oltorf down to Ben White, with South First Street and Dawson on its eastern side and the South Lamar corridor on its western one. Both of those edges are real roads and the interior streets are genuinely quiet, which over a distance this short means where a house sits inside the neighborhood matters more than any neighborhood average does.

The housing is usually described as predominantly 1950s and 1960s ranch and bungalow, with newer construction mixed in. That is a fair account of the streets and, as the inventory below shows, a poor account of what is actually for sale, most of which was built this century.

One thing this page will not tell you is where the name comes from. Several sources assert an origin and none of the ones I can reach documents it, and the Austin History Center is where that would be settled rather than a search engine. So it is left open here rather than repeated, on the same principle the Bryker Woods page applies to a boundary three sources disagree about.

The rate isthe number.Not the price.

Counted

Cheapest by the foot, in the whole ZIP

There are 23 residential listings here as of October 17, 2026 at 8:53 AM CDT, 14 of them houses and 8 condominiums. Sorted by price per square foot rather than by price, which is the ranking no portal offers, the ten cheapest in all of 78704 look like this.

The ten lowest price per square foot listings in 78704, with which of them are in Galindo
Per sq ft	Asking	Sq ft	Built	Type	Where
$120	$300,000	2,496	1948	Single Family Residence	Galindo
$234	$215,000	920	1985	Condominium	elsewhere
$252	$325,000	1,288	1967	Condominium	elsewhere
$264	$265,000	1,005	1982	Condominium	elsewhere
$266	$149,900	563	1980	Condominium	elsewhere
$271	$299,999	1,107	1966	Condominium	elsewhere
$271	$299,900	1,105	1963	Condominium	elsewhere
$273	$275,000	1,008	1972	Condominium	elsewhere
$288	$295,000	1,024	1972	Condominium	elsewhere
$288	$279,000	970	1985	Condominium	elsewhere

The cheapest square footage anywhere in 78704 is in Galindo, at $120 a foot for 2,496 square feet asking $300,000, built in 1948. The ZIP median rate is $499, so that is well under half of it. Nobody sorts a public search this way, which is most of why a listing like that sits.

The age column is the thing to read alongside it. Cheap square footage in this ZIP is almost entirely in buildings of the 1960s through the 1980s, which is a real purchase with real consequences rather than a loophole. What makes them cheap is what you would be living with, and the question that decides whether it is a bargain is the reserve rather than the rate.

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One association

4 addresses, one assessment

4 of the 6 condominium listings here that state a fee carry the same monthly figure to the dollar: $566. Their street names are different, which is why this is not obvious from a search page, and an identical assessment across that many listings means one association rather than a coincidence. Grouping on the fee is how you find it when the addresses will not tell you.

Which means a condominium median for Galindo is mostly one development’s pricing and one development’s assessment. That group runs about $342 a foot, against $464 for the condominiums outside it, which pay around $550 a month. Two different purchases under one neighborhood name, and the median sits between them describing neither.

It also makes Galindo the most expensive place in the ZIP to hold a condominium, at $566 a month at the median against $295 in South Lamar. That is the exact inverse of next door, where the cheapest purchase price and the cheapest dues arrive together, and it is worth knowing that the two neighborhoods share a boundary and almost nothing else about the cost of ownership.

Honestly

Who Galindo is wrong for

Anyone who thinks the cheapest listing is the best value: The lowest price per square foot in this ZIP is genuinely here, and it is also a unit of a certain age on a certain road, and both of those are why. Cheap square footage in a 1980s building can mean a sound association that has never needed to charge much, or deferred maintenance arriving all at once. The arithmetic that matters is purchase price plus dues plus what the reserve study says is coming, and only one of those three is on the listing.
A buyer using a neighborhood median on a condominium: Do not, and the second table is why. Most of the condominium listings here are the same association wearing different street names, so a Galindo condominium median is largely one development's pricing and one development's assessment. It tells you very little about the older and smaller units a few streets away, which are a different purchase at a different rate with different dues.
Someone who wants the 1950s ranch house: They are the character of the neighborhood and they are a minority of what trades. Most of what is listed here was built this century, often on a lot where something older stood. The ranch houses do come up, and when they do the question is usually whether you are buying the house or the lot, because the two are priced and marketed differently and the answer changes the inspection from a negotiation to a formality.
A buyer who needs quiet on every boundary: Ben White runs the southern edge and South Lamar the western one, both of which are serious roads, and the interior streets are genuinely quiet. That is a short distance to cover, so where a house sits inside the neighborhood matters more here than the neighborhood average does. Worth driving the specific block at rush hour rather than reading a map.

Working here

The monthly number, not the asking price

Everything on this page says the same thing in different ways: in Galindo the asking price is the least informative figure available. Two units a few streets apart can differ by half on the rate and by a couple of hundred dollars a month on the dues, in opposite directions, and the one that looks cheaper on a search page is frequently the dearer of the two to own. So I work the arithmetic before the offer rather than after: rate per foot, dues, what the reserve study says is coming, and what the tax assessment is likely to do once a sale resets it.

On the houses the question is different and simpler. Most of what sells here now was built this century, often where a ranch house stood, so when an original one does come up the real question is whether you are buying the house or the lot. Those are marketed to different buyers on different timelines, and the answer decides whether the inspection report is a negotiating document or a formality. I would rather settle that in the first conversation than discover we disagreed about it during the option period.

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

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The rest of 78704

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