Fredericksburg TX Real Estate Market Report Average land price
This chart shows the history of the ranch sales and the average price per acre in the Fredericksburg TX Real Estate market and includes all raw land sales in Gillespie County.

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Fredericksburg TX Real Estate Market Report Average land price

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 Average price per acre for Ranches and land values in Fredericksburg Texas

I think the slowest spot in the market right now is raw land sales.. which I don’t really get because land can still be a very low holding cost investment with lower capital gains than most other investments. But I think the increased building material costs and a tight labor market are the two big factors having an effect on they buyers who may have been looking to build . So it appears the raw land market is loosing some of its normal buyers to the existing homes market which I think is why we are seeing such strong numbers for the homes on acreage as we just discussed . So anyway for the 1st half of 2026 we have sold a total of 38 individual raw land tracts for a total of $27,334,535 compare to the first half of 2025 when we had sold 56 individual tracts for a total of $35,167,756 … so thats a 32.14% drop in total unit sales and 22.27% drop in total dollar volume . And of course that can be seen in the total number of acres with 1146 acres trading hands so far this year compared to 1703 acre in the same period for 2025 .. so again down about 32.1%

And I am going to go ahead and give you the break down for the average price per acres in the different size segments like I usually do but keep in mind with the few sales we have had these averages and really not a big enough sampling to be a good solid number to take to the bank .. for instance the 1 to 5 acre segment shows an average sold price per acre of $75,777 but that is data from only 5 transactions so far this year and one of those was a small 1.18 acre parcel with a great view which sold for $250,000 that really skewed the other 4 sales average numbers

But nothing the less here is were land sales stand as of June 30th 2026

1 to 5 acres is at $75,777.62 per acre ( 5 sells )

6 to 10 acres is at $27,977.18 per acre ( 7 sells )

11 to 25 acres is at $21,022.95 per acre ( 10 sells )

26 to 50 acres is at $17,043.83 per acre ( 6 sells)

51 to 100 acres is at $15,750.19 per acre ( 4 sells )

100 to 250 acres is at $11,391.59 per acre ( 1 sell )

250+ acre sis at $14,736.30 per acre ( 1 sell )

 

So as you can see, it was a pretty tough year for the raw land market in Gillespie County. Just not enough demand for everything that’s currently for sale which certainly made the average price per acre and most segments decrease. But that said I’m not overly worried about Land sales. It was a tough year but as old saying goes, they’re not making any more of it so I’m sure that will rebound fairly quickly in the next year or two.

And for any one curious the average price at Boot Ranch is at $319,508.95 per acre at the end of 2025

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And the average price for a city lot is at $202,080 for the 1st half of 2026

And property on Hwy 290 East which was a real hot commodity back a few years ago has really slowed..We only had one land sale on 290 E. in 2024and in 2025 we had no land only sells on 290 E.

 

When you look at the chart above is easy to think you have a complete picture of the land and ranch market in Gillespie County. But just looking at the average price per acre of everything that has sold can be misleading.  All land is not created equal.  One must take into account where the majority of the land was sold in a certain year.

Based on information from the Central Hill Country Board of REALTORS® MLS for the period  2006 through dates indicated on charts.

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