It’s ‘Austin Meets Miami’ at This Newly Listed Texas Estate With a Helipad
With its white-painted exterior and contemporary look, this lavish home might scream Miami, but the hilltop spread is Texas, and it’s on the market for just shy of $7 million.
Known as Casa Blanca, or White House, the 3.88-acre estate is about a 30-minute drive from downtown Austin nestled between Lake Austin and Lake Travis, and comprises a main home, a guest house and a host of upscale features, according to the listing with Soud Twal of Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty, who listed the home last week.
Standing at the end of a long driveway lined with palm trees, the light-filled main house spans 3,300 square feet and has four bedrooms and five bathrooms. There is also smart-home technology, a chef’s kitchen, travertine flooring and a cigar lounge with stone walls and ceiling, the listing said.
“Austin meets ‘Miami Vice’ is the best way to describe it,” Mr. Twal said, referring to the popular 1980s crime series.
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The property’s 2,300-square-foot guest house provides another four bedrooms, and other amenities on offer include a helipad, a natural limestone pool and spa, and a home gym. Plus there are outdoor entertaining spaces, a two-car garage and a separate boat garage.
In a Realtor.com report earlier this year, Austin—which had seen two years of frenzied value gains—ranked as the city where home prices are falling the most. The median home list price in September was $558,275, a 10.3% decline from June, according to the data. The percentage of sellers who reduced their list prices was up 252% in September.
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But the city’s luxury sector has fared much better than the overall market. Just this week, the city saw a $17 million condo listed at the W Austin, making it the most expensive apartment for sale in the city.
“A lot of what we are really seeing is a return to trends we would have forecast in 2019, without the pandemic and changes in interest rates,” Adam Perdue, an economist at the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University, told Mansion Global.
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