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West Line, and the part with no name

Ninety blocks named for a streetcar, holding Clarksville and Castle Hill and a stretch nobody names, which is where the oldest houses on the market are.

28 homes for sale in West Lineas of October 17, 2026 at 8:59 AM CDT

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West Line right now

Every residential listing inside the City’s Old West Austin planning area, in 78703, which is the boundary that matches this National Register district most closely. That includes everything on the Clarksville and Castle Hill pages, because both are inside it, and it is the only page that also shows the rest. From Unlock MLS through MLS Grid as of October 17, 2026 at 8:59 AM CDT. Closed sale prices are not shown: Texas is a non disclosure state.

The 28 most recently listed of 28. 14 of the full set are houses and 13 are condominiums.

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Listed by All City Real Estate Ltd. Co; AustinRealEstate.com; Bramlett Partners; Christies Intl Real Estate Lone Star; Compass RE Texas, LLC; Dana Fadal Realty; Gottesman Residential R.E.; Keller Williams Realty; Kuper Sotheby's Int'l Realty; LPT Realty LLC - Ascend Group; Moreland Properties; Spirit Real Estate; Urbanspace.

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1887

A bridge over Shoal Creek, then a streetcar

West Sixth Street got a bridge over Shoal Creek in 1887, and the streetcar followed it out of downtown. People called the route the West Line, and the tracts it reached stopped being farmland and started being suburbs. The district is named after the streetcar rather than after a founder, a creek or a developer, which is unusual here and tells you what actually built it.

The National Register listed it in 2005. It runs about ninety blocks, bounded by Baylor Street on the east, West 5th on the south, West 13th on the north and MoPac on the west. That is a large piece of ground by the standards of the other districts on this site, and it contains two neighborhoods most people can name and a good deal that they cannot.

One confusion to clear immediately. The City of Austin calls this same ground its Old West Austin neighborhood planning area, and there is a separate National Register district also called Old West Austin eight blocks north of here, covering Old Enfield, Pemberton Heights and Bryker Woods. Two authorities, three names, two pieces of ground that touch at 13th Street and share nothing else. This page uses West Line because it is the name that points at only one place.

The parts withnames are notwhere the oldhouses are.

Counted

Two named parts, and the rest

There are 28 residential listings inside the district as of October 17, 2026 at 8:59 AM CDT. Split by the parts that have names and the part that does not, with the earliest year built in each.

The West Line district split into Clarksville, Castle Hill and the remainder, with listing counts, median asking price, median year built and earliest year built
Part	Listed	Median asking	Median built	Earliest
Clarksville	8	$1,449,450	1976	1932
Castle Hill	10	$1,309,950	1976	1910
The part with no name	10	$1,750,000	1950	1915

That remainder is 10 of the 28 listings here, which is most of the reason this page exists. Until it was written those 10 appeared on the 78703 page and in search and on no neighborhood page at all, because they are inside the planning area and outside both of the neighborhoods carved from it. A quarter of this ZIP’s inventory was somewhere nobody had written about.

Worth saying what the remainder is and is not. It is not a neighborhood with a forgotten name that research would recover. It is the ordinary ground between two famous pieces: West 6th and the streets off it, Oakland, Theresa, Patterson, Maufrais, the Windsor Road end. People who live there say Clarksville, or West Austin, or give the street. Asking prices across the whole district run 23 to one, which is what you get when 1910s cottages and houses finished this year sit on the same block.

Counts in the low tens are illustrations rather than trends. The Old Enfield page sets out why small samples mislead, and every figure here is an asking price: Texas is a non disclosure state and closed prices are not published.

A living room with a limestone fireplace set between white oak built-ins, under a vaulted beadboard ceiling.

Honestly

Who West Line is wrong for

Anyone who thinks the named parts are the good parts: Clarksville and Castle Hill carry the history people have heard of, and they are genuinely worth what they cost. They are also not where this district's oldest surviving houses are coming to market. The stretch with no name holds the earliest stock on this page by a margin of decades, and it carries no premium for a designation because it does not have one. That is an opportunity or a risk depending on what you wanted the designation for.
A buyer who needs to know which designation applies: There are at least three overlapping answers on this ground and they do different things. The West Line National Register listing is honorary and applies broadly. The Castle Hill local historic district is enforceable and applies parcel by parcel. The Clarksville National Register district is its own listing again. Which of them touches a particular house is a records question for the City's historic preservation office, and the answer changes what a renovation costs and how long it takes.
Someone pricing from a district median: The spread here runs close to eighteen to one and the stock runs from the 1910s to houses finished this year, often on the same block. A median across that is a number about a boundary rather than about a house. Use the Clarksville and Castle Hill pages for the named parts, and treat anything in the remainder as needing its own comparable rather than a district average.
A buyer who wants quiet: The southern end of this district runs down to West 5th and 6th, which is a bar and restaurant corridor with the traffic and the late noise that implies, and MoPac runs the full western edge. Both of those are real and both are very local: two streets north of 6th is a different experience entirely. This is a district where a Tuesday evening visit tells you almost nothing and a Friday night one tells you most of what you need.

Inside it

The parts that have names

North of 13th Street is the other district called Old West Austin, which is Old Enfield, Pemberton Heights and Bryker Woods. Everything for sale across the ZIP, with filters, is on the 78703 market page.

Working here

The part with no name needs a different search

Half of what is for sale in this district is not in Clarksville and not in Castle Hill, so searching by neighborhood name misses it entirely. That is not a small gap: it is where the oldest houses on the market here are, and it carries no premium for a designation because it does not have one. Finding those means searching by boundary rather than by name, which is what this page does and what a portal search will not do for you.

The other half of the job is the designations, and there are at least three overlapping on this ground doing different things. The West Line listing is honorary and broad. Castle Hill’s local district is enforceable and parcel by parcel. Clarksville’s is its own listing again. Which of them touches a particular house decides what a renovation costs and how long it takes, and the only reliable answer comes from the City’s records rather than from a listing description.

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