The exterior of a house at dusk, low light across its front and planting to one side.

Rosewood, the cheapest ground and the busiest

The middle of the district the 1928 city plan created, on land a former slave bought for Emancipation Park.

25 homes for sale in Rosewoodas of October 17, 2026 at 8:12 AM CDT

On the market

Rosewood right now

Every residential listing whose location falls inside the Rosewood 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 8:12 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: 21
Median asking: $550,000
Median per sq ft: $414
Median days listed: 58

All 25 of them, newest first. Sort by price either way below. Everything across 78702, filters and all, is on its market page.

SortNewestPrice, low to highPrice, high to low

Listed by All City Real Estate Ltd. Co; Allure Real Estate; Bramlett Partners; Compass RE Texas, LLC; Epique Realty LLC; Harrison-Pearson Assoc. Inc; JBGoodwin REALTORS LT; Keller Williams - Lake Travis; Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty; LoKation Real Estate, LLC; Local Life Realty, LLC; Pauly Presley Realty; Riemer Residential; Spyglass Realty; The Groove Realty; Tiffany Russell Group; Vylla Home; eXp Realty, LLC.

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.

Counted

Last on rate, first on contracts

There are 25 residential listings here as of October 17, 2026 at 8:12 AM CDT, of which 19are houses with a stated size. Sorted by the share of each neighborhood’s listings currently under contract, Rosewood is at the top, and sorted by the rate those houses ask it is at the bottom.

Every neighborhood on this site with at least four houses, by the share of its listings under contract, with its median house rate and median days listed
Neighborhood	ZIP	Under contract	House per sq ft	Median days
Pemberton Heights	78703	20%1 of 5	$877	99
Rosewood	78702	16%4 of 25	$429	59
Barton Hills	78704	16%3 of 19	$764	65
North University	78705	11%4 of 36	$587	112
East Cesar Chavez	78702	10%3 of 29	$599	64
Tarrytown	78703	9%4 of 44	$796	67
Zilker	78704	9%4 of 46	$743	79
Bouldin Creek	78704	9%5 of 58	$734	95
Travis Heights	78704	7%4 of 56	$773	38
West Campus	78705	7%6 of 85	$713	139
Deep Eddy	78703	5%1 of 19	$644	53
South Lamar	78704	4%3 of 78	$486	87
Central East Austin	78702	2%1 of 46	$451	104
Govalle	78702	2%1 of 63	$451	71
Clarksville	78703	0%0 of 8	$868	54
Holly	78702	0%0 of 30	$532	115
Chestnut	78702	0%0 of 18	$476	95
Dawson	78704	0%0 of 21	$534	67
Galindo	78704	0%0 of 23	$455	81

The rate first, because it is the plainer number. $429 a square foot for a house is the lowest of the 19 neighborhoods measured here, below Central East Austin at $451. The comparison that should stop you is inside this ZIP: East Cesar Chavez asks $599, which is 1.40 times this. The same five digit postcode holds both the dearest and the cheapest residential ground on this site.

Here is what that pair of facts does not establish, because it is the obvious thing to read into it and the data will not carry it. It is not evidence that prices are rising. Texas is a non-disclosure state and this site may not publish closed sale prices, so there is nothing here about what anybody actually paid, and no series over time either: every figure on this page is an asking price on one date. A high share under contract tells you buyers are currently saying yes more often here than elsewhere. It does not tell you at what price, or whether that is new.

It is also a small base. 4 contracts out of 25 listings is a leading share, and two contracts fewer would be an unremarkable one. Treat it as a thing worth asking about rather than a finding.

A man boughtfive acres forJuneteenth. The citytook them.

Emancipation Park

The land was bought on purpose

Around 1905, thirty four years before Rosewood Courts went up, Thomas J. White, a former slave, bought five acres here and established Emancipation Park. It became the gathering place for Black Austin and the home of the city’s annual Juneteenth celebration: land owned by the people who used it, for the commemoration of their own emancipation.

The city took it by eminent domain. Between 17 November 1938 and 1 September 1939, Rosewood Courts was built on the site with United States Housing Authority money, sixty units at first and a hundred and thirty eventually, across nearly nine acres. It is the oldest public housing in the country built specifically for African American families, which is the sort of distinction that is genuinely both things at once: a real New Deal achievement, delivered by taking the one piece of ground this community already owned. The Juneteenth celebration moved to Rosewood Park, where it still is.

This is the third time these 78702 pages have had to write down the same mechanism, and I would rather say so than let it read as coincidence. The 1928 city plan drew Austin’s Black population east by putting their schools and parks here and nowhere else. Here the city took the park they had bought for themselves. Twenty years later it took houses in Holly for a power plant. Each of those is separately sourced on its own page.

Which is the context for the table above. The middle of the district all of that created is now the cheapest residential ground of the 19 neighborhoods this site measures, and the dearest is a mile and a half south in the same ZIP. Those are measurements. I am not going to pretend they are only that, and I am also not going to draw the conclusion for you.

A living room with a wide window, low furniture and light falling across the floor.

Two clumps

Why that median is almost no use

Having led with a median I should be honest about what it can and cannot carry. The houses here sit in groups with decades of nothing between them, so the median year of construction describes no house on the market, and the median asking price averages two quite different products. The median rate per foot, as it turns out, holds up better than either.

Rosewood houses grouped by the construction gaps found in the feed, with medians for each group
Built	Houses	Per sq ft	Median asking	Median sq ft	Median days	Pending
1922 to 1959	10	$420	$437,499	1,042	129	4 of 10
1983 to 1985	2	$505	$587,500	1,164	225	0 of 2
2014 to 2026	7	$414	$775,000	1,951	44	0 of 7

The gaps are real and they are wide. Not one house for sale here was built between 1960 and 1982, or between 1986 and 2013. That is why a median year of construction around 1959 is an artifact: only 5 of the 19 houses were built in that decade at all. The median is sitting in a hole.

Those two are cut at because they are the length of a generation. The next largest hole in this inventory is 18 years, between 1931 and 1948, and a gap that size among 19 houses spread over a century is not something I would read anything into. The table above splits only at holes of 20 years or more.

The groups at either end are different goods at almost exactly the same rate, which is the part I did not expect. The 10 from 1922 to 1959 ask a median $437,499 over 1,042 square feet. The 7 from 2014 to 2026 ask $775,000 over 1,951. So the asking price goes up by a factor of 1.77 and the floor area by 1.87, and the rate per foot barely moves: $420 against $414, a difference of $6.

I had expected the small pre-war houses to carry much higher rates, as they do in East Cesar Chavez, because a builder pricing a cottage is pricing the lot. Some of them do. The dearest foot in the neighborhood is a 1950 house of 1,410 square feet asking $887. But the pre-war group runs all the way from $343 to $887, a factor of 2.59, while the new builds sit between $316 and $468. The three cheapest rates in the whole neighborhood are new houses, not old ones. So the old stock is where the rate is unpredictable and the new stock is where it clusters, which means what varies here is the individual lot rather than the decade, and no summary figure will find that for you.

Across all 19 houses the rate runs from $316 to $887 a square foot, a factor of 2.81. I had meant to tell you that was the widest spread on this site and it is not: Holly is wider, and several others are too. It is simply wide enough that one figure cannot stand in for the neighborhood, which is the only claim this section needs.

3 of these listings carry a construction year later than 2025 and so are not finished. Every figure is an asking price: Texas is a non-disclosure state.

Honestly

Who Rosewood is wrong for

A buyer who wants a number they can trust without reading further: The median here is close to meaningless and this page spends a section explaining why. The houses are in two clumps, pre war and post 2014, with a thirty year hole and then a twenty year hole between them, and the rate per foot runs from about three hundred to about nine hundred depending mostly on how small and old the house is. If you want a neighborhood you can summarize with one figure, this is not it, and a buyer who shops it on the median will make a bad offer in both directions.
Anyone reading the contract share as a signal to hurry: It is the highest on this site and it still does not mean what it looks like. There are no closed prices in Texas, so nothing here can show you what anyone actually paid or whether prices are moving. It means buyers are currently saying yes more often than elsewhere, on a base of 23 listings where two contracts either way changes the figure entirely. Hurrying on that basis is how people overpay, and I would rather lose the deal than tell you otherwise.
A buyer who wants new construction and a quiet decision: Four of these listings have a construction year later than 2025, which means they do not exist yet, and the newest finished houses here sit noticeably longer than the old small ones. The large new builds are the cheapest ground per foot in the neighborhood, which is either the best value on this page or a market telling you something, and I genuinely cannot prove which from a single snapshot. What I can do is show you how long each one has been listed, which is on every card.
Someone who wants to buy a bungalow and leave it alone: Possible, and increasingly expensive. The small pre war houses carry the highest rates per foot here because builders price them as lots, so you are bidding against someone who intends to remove the house. That is survivable with the right terms and it does mean the number on a 650 square foot cottage will look absurd until you understand what it is a number for.
Anyone who wants to arrive without the history: The land Rosewood Courts stands on was bought around 1905 by a former slave and run as Emancipation Park, where Austin held its Juneteenth celebration, until the city took it by eminent domain. This is the middle of the district the 1928 city plan created, and it is now the cheapest residential ground of the nineteen neighborhoods this site measures. Both of those are facts rather than an argument, and knowing them is the minimum for buying here decently. The people who can tell you the rest are still on these streets.

Working here

Where one number will mislead you

Most of the work here is refusing to use the neighborhood median, in either direction. A pre-war cottage and a 2021 four bedroom on the next street are not the same market and should never be priced from the same set, and because there is no middle to this inventory the nearest honest comparable is often a handful of listings rather than a dozen. That means being explicit about how thin the evidence is for a given number, which is less comfortable than quoting a median and considerably more use. On a purchase it also means anticipating an appraisal that reaches for the wrong half of the neighborhood.

The second thing is deciding, before a small old house goes on the market, whether the buyer is a family or a builder. Those are two different prices, two sets of terms and two marketing approaches, and for a long-time owner here the choice is not purely financial. I will lay out what each path is likely to produce and what it means for the street, and then it is the owner’s call, not mine. What I will not do is quietly run the builder process because it closes faster.

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

Nearby

The rest of 78702

Everything for sale across the ZIP, with filters, is on the 78702 market page.

History: Rosewood Courts’ construction dates, the United States Housing Authority funding, the unit counts, the acreage and the description of it as the oldest built specifically for African American families from Living New Deal. Thomas J. White, Emancipation Park, the Juneteenth celebration, the eminent domain seizure and the move to Rosewood Park from Reporting Texas. One source credits Lyndon Johnson with the funding and names the wrong office for 1939; neither better source mentions him, so he is not on this page, and the complex’s street address is omitted because sources disagree on it. Rates, counts, shares and medians are computed from the Unlock MLS feed at build.

MLS GRID logo slot

Listings courtesy of Unlock MLS as distributed by MLS GRID

Based on information submitted to the MLS GRID as of October 17, 2026 at 8:12 AM CDT. All data obtained from various sources and may not have been verified by broker or MLS GRID.

Any use or search of data on the website, other than by a consumer looking to purchase real estate, is prohibited.