Housing Market in Cedar Park
Cedar Park's housing market, per the base record, posted a $519,689 median sale price as of May 2026, down 2.0% year-over-year -- the highest price point among this batch of Austin-area satellite cities and a real premium tied directly to Leander ISD's school-quality reputation. Broader research on other sources this pass found figures ranging from roughly $450,000 to $532,000 for overlapping windows, a real spread worth disclosing rather than treating any single number as precise.
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The base record's $519,689 median (Redfin, May 2026) sits well above Round Rock ($372,787), Georgetown ($429,766), Pflugerville ($359,000), and Leander ($418,000) -- all figures from this same file's research pass -- and only modestly below Austin city-proper's $577,000. Other sources reviewed for Cedar Park in overlapping windows cited figures from roughly $450,000 to $532,000, a real spread reflecting different methodologies and snapshot timing rather than one source being simply correct; the durable takeaway is that Cedar Park is genuinely the priciest option among Austin's immediate satellite cities, not the exact dollar figure.
A Market That Has Cooled From Its Boom-Era Peak
Like the broader Austin metro (see the Austin housing-market topic page for the metro-wide correction context), Cedar Park's market has moved well past the 2021-2022 bidding-war era into more moderate, buyer-friendlier conditions -- the modest year-over-year price decline cited above is consistent with that broader Austin-area softening rather than an isolated Cedar Park trend. A specific, independently verified days-on-market or inventory figure for Cedar Park itself (as opposed to Austin metro-wide figures) was not confirmed to the same standard in this research pass -- treat the general direction (more buyer leverage than 2021-2022) as the reliable takeaway rather than a precise current number.
The School-Quality Price Premium
Cedar Park's position as the priciest city in its immediate Williamson County peer group tracks closely with Leander ISD's ranking as the Austin area's #2 school district by Niche (per the base record) -- buyers are visibly paying a premium for school access relative to Round Rock, Georgetown, Pflugerville, and Leander itself, none of which carry quite the same combination of established neighborhoods and top-tier school assignment. See the schools topic page for the fuller picture, including the Texas Education Agency's separate, differently-scored official accountability rating.
Neighborhood Variance Within Cedar Park
Citywide medians blend genuinely different pockets -- established communities like Twin Creeks (a golf-course community with homes from the mid-$200,000s up to seven figures on larger lots) sit alongside newer, more uniformly priced developments like Ranch at Brushy Creek ($450,000-$650,000) and mid-tier, established areas like Buttercup Creek ($400,000-$600,000). See the best-areas topic page for more detail -- a specific target neighborhood's price range can differ meaningfully from the citywide median.
Key takeaways
- Median sale price: $519,689 as of May 2026 (Redfin), down 2.0% YoY -- the highest among this batch of Austin-area satellite cities, though other sources cited figures from roughly $450,000 to $532,000 in overlapping windows.
- Cedar Park sits closer to Austin city-proper's $577,000 median than to nearby Round Rock, Georgetown, Pflugerville, or Leander -- a real, disclosed price premium tied to school-district reputation.
- The market has cooled from the 2021-2022 boom era consistent with the broader Austin-metro correction, though a Cedar Park-specific days-on-market/inventory figure was not independently confirmed this pass.
- Neighborhood-level prices vary meaningfully -- from Twin Creeks' mid-$200,000s-to-seven-figure range to Buttercup Creek's and Ranch at Brushy Creek's roughly $400,000-$650,000 bands -- so the citywide median is not representative of any one target area.
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