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Govalle, and the thirty-four years that are missing

A Swedish cattle ranch in the 1850s, a third of its listings finished this year, and nothing at all for sale from the middle of the last century.

63 homes for sale in Govalleas of October 17, 2026 at 4:03 AM CDT

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Govalle right now

Every residential listing whose location falls inside the Govalle planning area, in 78702. 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 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: 62
Median asking: $785,000
Median per sq ft: $449
Median days listed: 70

All 63 of them, newest first. Sort by price either way below. Everything across 78702, filters and all, is on its market page.

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Listed by All City Real Estate Ltd. Co; Allure Real Estate; Berkshire Hathaway TX Realty; Bramlett Partners; Central Metro Realty; Christies Intl Real Estate Lone Star; Compass RE Texas, LLC; Devora Realty; Direct Effect Real Estate; Douglas Elliman Real Estate; Gold Realty; HomeBase; Keller Williams Realty; Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty; Local Life Realty, LLC; Luisa Mauro Real Estate; Moreland Properties; Pearson Properties; REALTY CAPITAL CITY; Real Broker, LLC; Serhant Texas, LLC; Skout Real Estate; The Mullens Group; Todd Hower Realty LLC; Vox Real Estate, LLC; eXp Realty, LLC.

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1850s

Swedish for good grazing

Govalle, said goh-VAL-ee, is a Swedish phrase meaning good grazing, and that is what it was: a cattle ranch in the 1850s on the land between what are now Webberville Road and Airport Boulevard. It is the only neighborhood in East Austin with a Swedish name and the ranch is the reason.

Swen Magnus Swenson, a Swedish businessman in Texas, used the ranch to bring his countrymen over. He paid their passage from Sweden and they worked it off on his land. Whatever one makes of that arrangement, it is why a corner of East Austin carries a Swedish name, and it put people on this ground a century before the city reached it.

Two housingstocks, andlittle between.

Counted

Sort by the year and the market splits

There are 63 residential listings here as of October 17, 2026 at 4:03 AM CDT, 44 houses and 18 condominiums, which is the largest neighborhood in 78702. Grouped by when they were built.

Govalle listings grouped by year built, with count, median asking price, median price per square foot and median days on the market
Built	Listed	Share	Median asking	Per sq ft	Days
1920 to 1958	13	21%	$507,000	$394	107
1959 to 1992	1	2%	$875,000	$477	94
1993 to 2014	4	6%	$624,500	$470	95
2015 to 2025	21	33%	$795,000	$415	64
2026	22	35%	$954,000	$455	56

The bottom row is the other thing to notice. 22 of the 63 listings that state a year, which is 35% of them, were finished this calendar year. That is a supply wave rather than a trickle, and it is the single most useful fact for anyone buying or selling here right now.

Which makes the top row the interesting one for a patient buyer. The pre-war and mid-century cottages are the cheapest way into the neighborhood at $507,000 at the median, they are cheaper per foot than anything built since 2015, and they sit roughly twice as long. All three of those are the same fact seen from different angles, and the third one is the negotiating room.

Bands in the low tens are illustrations rather than trends. Every figure is an asking price: Texas is a non disclosure state and closed prices are not published. The Old Enfield page sets out why small samples mislead.

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Honestly

Who Govalle is wrong for

A buyer who wants a house from the middle of the century: There is nothing. Not a short supply, none at all: the table below has an empty row where thirty-four years should be. What that means practically is that your choice here is an older cottage needing the work an older cottage needs, or something built in the last ten years, and there is no third option that splits the difference. Decide which of the two you are actually shopping for before you start, because they are different purchases with different inspections and different negotiating room.
A seller of new construction who expects to set the pace: You are one of many. A third of what is listed here was finished this year, so a buyer comparing your house is comparing it with a lot of others very like it, often from builders who can carry a listing longer than an individual seller can. The newest band does sell fastest here, which is the good news, and it does that because it is priced to. A list price at the optimistic end of the band does not get tested, it gets passed over.
Anyone treating the old cottages as the cheap option without a plan: They are the cheapest way in by a wide margin and they sit on the market roughly twice as long as the new builds, which is real negotiating room. They are also small, old, and in many cases bought for the lot rather than the house. Whether that is a bargain depends entirely on what you intend: a renovation, a scrape, or living in it as it stands are three different budgets and only one of them is the asking price.
A buyer who has not driven the specific block: This is a neighborhood in the middle of being rebuilt, which means a street can have a new four-bedroom next to a 1940s cottage next to a lot that is about to become something. That is genuinely appealing to some people and genuinely not to others, and no map or listing photograph conveys it. It also changes month to month, so a drive-by from last spring is out of date.

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Which side of the gap you are buying on

Almost every decision here follows from that one question, and it is worth settling in the first conversation rather than the third. A cottage from before 1959 is usually a lot purchase with a house standing on it, which means the inspection is a budget rather than a negotiation, the comparable set is other lots and not other houses, and the real number is the asking price plus what you intend to spend. A build from the last few years is the opposite: the house is the asset, the inspection is a punch list, and the thing to scrutinize is the builder and the warranty rather than the slab.

The second thing is the wave. With this much new construction listed at once, a buyer has leverage that does not exist a mile west, and it is usually worth more taken as a rate buy-down or closing costs than as a cut to the headline price, because the builder will protect the number that sets their comparables. On the selling side the same wave is the problem: you are competing with sellers who can wait longer than you can, so the list price has to be right on the first weekend. I would rather tell you that before it goes on than explain it after a reduction.

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

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