Median home prices are holding steady in Leander and Liberty Hill, even as closings and time on the market keep parting ways by ZIP code. The one November price in the latest local note is narrower than that headline: homes in Leander’s Bar W Ranch were selling for a median around $400,000.
Haley McLeod reported the price picture for Community Impact on Nov. 12. The Bar W Ranch figure comes from a photo caption in that report, dated to November, not from a citywide median table.
One Neighborhood, Not the Whole Market
That distinction matters. Nothing in the Nov. 12 report supplies an overall median for Leander and Liberty Hill this month, so $400,000 should not be read as the price of the two cities combined.
Earlier Community Impact reporting found that prices, inventory and market activity still vary across Leander and Liberty Hill, with some neighborhoods showing notable changes from a year earlier. Most homes sold in the Leander-Liberty Hill area landed between $300,000 and $499,999.
That band is familiar. In October 2025 it was again the most popular range, with 131 sales, according to a separate Community Impact tally of the same corridor.
More Closings, Flat Prices
Volume has not moved in lockstep with price. Unlock MLS data cited by Community Impact showed Liberty Hill home sales up 45% in March 2026 from March 2025.
Inside ZIP code 78642, the count went from 64 sales to 93. ZIP codes 78641 and 78613, described in that report as Leander and Cedar Park, stayed relatively unchanged year over year.
Median home costs were relatively flat in that March comparison, with only a slight increase in 78642. Homes also stayed on the market longer in 78642, 78641 and 78613. More buyers closed in Liberty Hill; they did not, on the median, pay much more for the privilege, and listings were not moving faster.
October Already Showed the Split
The same geography had already split a year earlier. In October 2025, the median sale price for the Leander and Liberty Hill region was $510,000, unchanged from October 2024, Community Impact reported.
Sales rose year over year in each of the region’s three ZIP codes. Liberty Hill’s 78642 had the largest percentage gain, 41.18%. ZIP code 78613, described there as covering parts of Leander and Cedar Park, had the most sales, at 129.
Price movement was narrower. Among the three ZIP-code markets, only 78642 posted a higher median, up 12.64% from $487,780 to $549,450. Homes there also took longer to sell: an average of 100 days on the market, up from 82 days in October 2024, a 21.95% increase.
That October regional median and the November Bar W Ranch figure are not a before-and-after for the same place. One is a two-city monthly median from last fall. The other is a single Leander neighborhood this month.
A Separate Count, With Its Own Limits
Readers comparing those newspaper snapshots with the state’s housing series are looking at a different product. The Texas Real Estate Research Center builds its Leander statistics from listing data in more than 50 Texas MLS systems, covering single-family homes, condominiums and townhouses sold through those systems.
The center’s dataset leaves out new-home sales negotiated directly between builder and buyer outside the MLS, and existing-home sales made outside the MLS. For areas outside the Houston metro, it releases statistics on or near the 20th calendar day after month-end, which puts a November release on or near Dec. 20.
Until that series lands, the local picture is the one already on the page: a steady headline, a Bar W Ranch median around $400,000, and a Liberty Hill ZIP code that has carried more of the sales gains than the price gains.
