Buying in Liberty Hill, TX: New Homes & Acreage (2026)

Quick answer: Buying in Liberty Hill, TX means choosing between master-planned new construction (roughly mid-$300Ks to $1M+, depending on the community) or acreage homesites running from about $19,000 to over $40,000 per acre for smaller tracts. Liberty Hill ISD holds a “B” rating from the state, and the trade-off for lower prices and more land is a longer commute — 45 to 90 minutes to downtown Austin depending on traffic.

Liberty Hill has become one of the fastest-growing towns north of Austin, and for good reason: it offers something increasingly hard to find closer in — real acreage and new construction at a meaningfully lower price point. Here’s what buying in Liberty Hill actually looks like right now.

New Construction Communities in Liberty Hill

Four communities account for most of the active new-home activity:

• Santa Rita Ranch — the largest, at over 3,100 acres with roughly 7,700 homes planned at full build-out. Builders include Highland Homes, Perry Homes, Toll Brothers, Coventry Homes, Lennar, and GFO Homes, with prices from the $400Ks to over $1M.
• Lariat — about 600 acres, with Coventry Homes, Highland Homes, Perry Homes, Chesmar Homes, and Westin Homes building, starting in the low $400Ks.
• Butler Farms — Meritage Homes and Saratoga Homes, priced from the mid-$300Ks to the low $500Ks — currently the most accessible entry point among the major communities.
• Rancho Santa Fe — large homesites of 1 to 5+ acres with custom builders, priced from the mid-$700Ks to over $1.5M, for buyers who want acreage without leaving a planned community.

For more on the overall buying process once you’ve settled on a community, see our Smart Austin Home Buying Guide.

Buying Acreage in Liberty Hill

If you want land rather than a planned-community lot, pricing varies a lot by tract size. Smaller parcels tend to run higher per acre — recent listings include about 12.9 acres at roughly $40,700/acre and 17 acres at roughly $34,700/acre — while larger tracts bring the per-acre cost down, with a 46.5-acre parcel pricing out around $19,000/acre. Citywide averages get skewed upward by a handful of very large, high-priced tracts, so don’t anchor on a single average-price figure — look at comparable tract sizes instead.

Liberty Hill Home Prices Right Now

Across all Liberty Hill housing (new and resale), the median sold price has been running around $342,575 over the past 12 months — the most affordable of the three suburbs we compared in our Cedar Park vs. Leander vs. Liberty Hill guide, which is worth a look if you’re still deciding between the three.

Schools: Liberty Hill ISD

Liberty Hill ISD earned a “B” rating (score of 85) from the Texas Education Agency for 2025–26. Three campuses — Bar W Elementary, Legacy Ranch Middle School, and Rancho Sienna Elementary — earned an “A,” while every campus in the district scored in the acceptable range. The district has identified a couple of campuses for additional support and is expanding literacy and special education resources as part of that plan. For a broader comparison across the region, see our Austin-area school district ratings guide.

The Commute Trade-Off

This is the real cost of Liberty Hill’s lower prices and extra space: commutes to downtown Austin run 45–60 minutes without traffic and 60–90 minutes during rush hour, via SH 29 to I-35 or FM 1869 to US-183 — the longest of the major northern suburbs. If your work is fully remote or hybrid with limited downtown days, that trade-off is easy to justify. A daily downtown commute is a harder sell.

Is Liberty Hill Right for You?

Liberty Hill tends to fit two kinds of buyers well: those who want new construction at a lower price point than Cedar Park or Leander, and those specifically looking for acreage without leaving the Austin metro entirely. It’s a tougher fit if a short, predictable commute is non-negotiable.

FAQs: Buying in Liberty Hill, TX

Bottom Line

Buying in Liberty Hill means trading commute time for space, newer construction, and meaningfully lower prices than closer-in suburbs. If that trade-off works for your lifestyle, it’s one of the strongest value plays in the Austin area right now. Also worth checking: if you end up buying your primary residence here, don’t forget to file for your homestead exemption after closing.