Old Enfield, where the numbers run out
A third of a square mile between Pease Park and MoPac, platted off a governor’s pasture in 1914, with 3 things for sale in it today.
4 homes for sale in Old Enfield
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Old Enfield right now
Every residential listing whose location falls inside the Old Enfield planning area, in 78703. That is the boundary the City of Austin publishes, and the one this page uses. From Unlock MLS through MLS Grid as of October 15, 2026 at 12:46 PM 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
- 3
- Median asking
- $1,299,900
- Median per sq ft
- $546
- Median days listed
- 67
All 4 of them, newest first. Sort by price either way below. Everything across 78703, filters and all, is on its market page.
1609 Woodlawn
$1,250,000Pending
Single Family Residence · 78703 · 14 days · listed by Keller Williams Realty
2308 Hartford
$6,995,000
Single Family Residence · 78703 · 53 days · listed by Moreland Properties
1200 Enfield #106
$367,500
Condominium · 78703 · 67 days · listed by DEN Property Group
1609 Hartford #A
$1,299,900
Condominium · 78703 · 114 days · listed by Compass RE Texas, LLC
Listed by Compass RE Texas, LLC; DEN Property Group; Keller Williams Realty; Moreland Properties.
Before any figure
Seven is not a market
Every site that covers Old Enfield will give you a median price, a price per square foot and a days-on-market figure. As of October 15, 2026 at 12:46 PM CDT there are 3 active listings inside the boundary, out of 113 in 78703 as a whole. Every one of those statistics is computed from about 3 observations.
That is not a market average, it is an accident of which houses happened to be listed this month. One sale moves the median here by hundreds of thousands of dollars. Today the range runs from $367,500 to $6,995,000, across 1 house and 2 condominiums. An average of those describes nothing that exists.
So the figures further down this page are here to tell you what is standing on the market today, and they are honest about that. They are not a valuation, they are not a trend, and they should not be the basis of an offer. In a neighborhood this small the useful question is not what Old Enfield is worth. It is what that house is worth, and the answer comes from the specific comparable sales for that block and that vintage, which is work rather than a lookup.
A median ofa handfulis a number,not a fact.
Who made it
One family firm, three neighborhoods
This was the eastern pasture of Woodlawn, the estate Elisha Pease bought in 1857 and that his family held for two generations. In 1916 his daughter Julia Pease and his grandson Niles Graham, with Graham’s cousin Murray, set up the Enfield Realty and Home Building Company to subdivide most of what was left of it.
It is worth knowing because it explains why the west side is shaped the way it is. This was not a neighborhood that grew; it was an estate sold off in sequence by one family, working outward from the first plat. The earliest piece is here: 65 lots laid out in 1914 between Lorrain Street and Windsor Road at the top, Parkway along Shoal Creek at the bottom, West 12th on one side and Pease Park on the other. Further additions followed through 1948, which is why a single street here can run from a 1910s house to a post-war one without a break.
The same land has one more descendant. Governor Pease’s holdings east of here are where a freedman named Charles Clark bought two acres in 1871 and founded Clarksville. The most expensive west-side neighborhoods in Austin and the oldest surviving freedman’s town west of the Mississippi came off one man’s estate, and they are a fifteen-minute walk apart.
What governs it
Recognition, not regulation
Old Enfield sits inside the Old West Austin National Register historic district, and buyers consistently misread what that means in both directions. A National Register listing is a recognition of significance. On its own it does not stop a private owner from altering or removing a house, which is less restrictive than most buyers fear and considerably less protective of the house next door than they hope. It is a different instrument from a City of Austin local historic district, which does carry design review.
What actually constrains a lot here is the ordinary code: the zoning, the tree ordinance over a canopy this old, and whatever is recorded against the specific title. Read those three during the option period rather than taking comfort from a plaque. The full version of this distinction, and which districts in the ZIP are which, is on the 78703 page.
Honestly
Who Old Enfield is wrong for
- A buyer who wants to compare before deciding
- There is usually nothing to compare against. In a neighborhood this size a whole quarter can pass without a house on a given street changing hands, so the comparable sale that would settle an argument about price frequently does not exist. Decisions here get made on judgement about a specific house, which is a different exercise from shopping a market.
- Anyone quoting a statistic about it
- Including the ones further down this page. A median built from a handful of listings moves hundreds of thousands of dollars when one house lists or sells, and every portal will still print it to two significant figures. Use the figures here to understand what is standing on the market today, not to value a property.
- A buyer who wants to change the house
- The stock is old, the lots have not been subdivided, and the tree canopy is protected by ordinance. National Register listing does not by itself stop an owner altering a house, and people misread that both ways: it is less restrictive than they fear and less protective of the neighbour's house than they hope. What actually constrains you is the City's tree and zoning rules and whatever is recorded against your specific lot.
- Someone who needs to be moved by a date
- With this little inventory the timeline is set by the market rather than by you. Buyers who get the house they want here are usually the ones who were ready months before it listed, with financing arranged and a clear view of what they would pay. If you have a hard date, widen the search to the neighborhoods either side of it and treat Old Enfield as the upside.
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.
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.
- Castle HillThirty nine acres named for a castle the Texas Military Institute built in 1869, the one neighborhood here whose boundary the City draws parcel by parcel.
- 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.
Because inventory here is thin, the sensible search usually covers the neighborhoods either side of it at the same time. Everything for sale across the ZIP, with filters, is on the 78703 market page.
Working here
Pricing where there are no comparables
A handful of listings at a time, as this page sets out, means the ordinary method does not work. There is often nothing recent, nothing similar and nothing nearby to price against, and Texas is a non disclosure state so the closed numbers are not public either. Anyone who hands you a confident figure for a house in Old Enfield assembled it from somewhere, and it is fair to ask where.
The honest method here is slower and more specific: what has actually traded, what it traded on, what the lot and the condition would do to that, and where the current owner’s expectations sit. It also means paying attention to what is not listed, because in a neighborhood this tightly held a meaningful share of what changes hands never reaches the public feed. If you want to buy here, the useful conversation starts well before something comes up.
If that is the kind of help you want on a purchase or a sale here, start a conversation.
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