Austin condos under $300,000

Two separate searches, both capped at $300,000, both pulled from the Unlock MLS feed and re-checked against the appraisal district. Sort any column by clicking its heading. Filter either table with the box above it.

Straight-line distances are computed from each unit's own MLS coordinates, so they are shorter than the walk. Blunn Creek and I-35 both cut the south Austin area up, and a 0.9-mile figure there can be a mile and a half on foot.

Absence is not proof. The export notes that under local MLS rules some listings are excluded, so a unit missing here may still be for sale.

ZIPs 78701–78705, 78722, 78751 and 78756. Prices run $138,800 to $299,999.

Travis Heights and the blocks around it, plus the far side of I-35 at the one-mile edge. The tight cluster inside a third of a mile is genuinely walkable to the pool. Everything at 0.94 miles and beyond is 78741 rather than 78704, which is a different neighbourhood whatever the mileage says, and the walk there crosses the interstate.

Listing agents could be read for 12 of the 25. The rest are not missing an agent: the listing site throttles automated lookups and answers with an empty page, so those could not be retrieved. Quote the MLS number and any agent can pull the contact in seconds.

Full deep dive on 1304 Mariposa Drive → — the listing, the 25 comparables ranked by price per foot, all 81 county accounts, and what to ask before offering.

A listing tells you what one seller wants. The county tells you what the building is. Travis Green Condominiums at 1304 Mariposa Drive, pulled from Travis Central Appraisal District for tax year 2026, carries 81 accounts: 78 residential units, a common-area account for the regime itself, and 2 business personal-property accounts for firms operating out of the building.

Three things worth knowing about it, and worth checking on any building you are serious about:

• 7 owners are protesting their 2026 valuation. Owners disputing the county's number is ordinary. A cluster of them is a prompt to ask what changed.
• 11 accounts are held by an LLC, a trust or an estate rather than a person. In a building this size that is a meaningful investor and estate-planning share, which affects who your neighbours are and how often units turn over.
• 4 owners hold two units each. Concentrated ownership matters at HOA vote time.

Owner names are public record at the appraisal district and are not reproduced here. Look up a specific unit yourself if you need one. Compiling eighty-one private homeowners into a list on a web page is a different act from checking a single address.

One trap. The appraisal district numbers these units 1 to 78. The MLS labels them differently, so a listing advertised as unit 206 has no matching TCAD unit 206. Match on the legal description, not the marketing label.

Parking, which floor, whether the unit faces the road, and what the corridor smells like. Every column here can be right and the place still wrong. Two specifics repeatedly decide it in this price band:

• An unusually low HOA is a question, not a bargain. Buildings on these lists run roughly $180 to $500 a month. A figure far under that is either a data error, a part-year number, or a self-managed building with deferred maintenance and a special assessment coming.
• Several units for sale at once in one building, well under the price per foot of everything around them, usually means one of: heavy investor turnover, a pending assessment, a lending problem that makes the building hard to finance, or condition. Ask which before getting excited.

Ask any seller for the resale certificate and the HOA minutes. On a 1960s or 1970s tower that is standard diligence, not suspicion.

Listings from the Unlock MLS feed via Redfin's export, active only, filtered to condo, townhouse and co-op at or under $300,000, pulled in price bands to stay under the 350-row export cap. Ownership and valuation from Travis Central Appraisal District, tax year 2026. Distances are haversine from published coordinates. Listing-agent details are read from the listing itself.

Where two sources disagree on a price, both figures are noted rather than averaged. "n/d" means not disclosed, never estimated.

A buyer's own notes are held back from this page. Factual disclosures about a listing, such as income restrictions, price conflicts between sources, or unconfirmed status, are published, because a reader needs them.