It’s ‘Austin Meets Miami’ at This Newly Listed Texas Estate With a Helipad

With its white-painted exterior and up to date look, this lavish dwelling may scream Miami, however the hilltop unfold is Texas, and it’s in the marketplace for simply shy of $7 million. 

Referred to as Casa Blanca, or White Home, the three.88-acre property is a couple of 30-minute drive from downtown Austin nestled between Lake Austin and Lake Travis, and includes a predominant dwelling, a visitor home and a number of upscale options, in response to the itemizing with Soud Twal of Kuper Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty, who listed the house final week. 

Standing on the finish of a protracted driveway lined with palm timber, the light-filled predominant home spans 3,300 sq. ft and has 4 bedrooms and 5 bogs. There may be additionally smart-home expertise, a chef’s kitchen, travertine flooring and a cigar lounge with stone partitions and ceiling, the itemizing mentioned. 

“Austin meets ‘Miami Vice’ is one of the best ways to explain it,” Mr. Twal mentioned, referring to the favored Nineteen Eighties crime collection.

The property’s 2,300-square-foot visitor home gives one other 4 bedrooms, and different facilities on supply embody a helipad, a pure limestone pool and spa, and a house health club. Plus there are outside entertaining areas, a two-car storage and a separate boat storage. 

In a Realtor.com report earlier this 12 months, Austin—which had seen two years of frenzied worth positive factors—ranked as town the place dwelling costs are falling probably the most. The median dwelling listing value in September was $558,275, a ten.3% decline from June, in response to the info. The share of sellers who lowered their listing costs was up 252% in September.

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However the metropolis’s luxurious sector has fared a lot better than the general market. Simply this week, town noticed a $17 million rental listed on the W Austin, making it the costliest house on the market within the metropolis. 

“Lots of what we’re actually seeing is a return to traits we might have forecast in 2019, with out the pandemic and modifications in rates of interest,” Adam Perdue, an economist on the Texas Actual Property Analysis Middle at Texas A&M College, advised Mansion International. 

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