Austin Local Team is a sister site of Austin Texas Things — a home search built on the same public-records database (Zabalist) this desk reports from. It covers five counties, catalogs 3,871 neighborhood guides, and runs a home-value tool that skips the automatic estimate in favor of a person who actually reviews your numbers. Here's what each piece does, using one real neighborhood page as the example.
The home search: five counties, no account required
Austin Local Team's home search covers Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop and Caldwell counties — for-sale and for-rent listings sourced from Unlock MLS through MLS GRID, the same regional listing feed every licensed Central Texas brokerage pulls from. As of Oct. 2, 2026, the live database held roughly 13,032 active residential listings, with separate counts for rentals, land and commercial (Austin Local Team, checked Oct. 2, 2026 — that number moves daily, same as any MLS feed).
Filters go well past price and bedroom count: living area, lot size, year built, max HOA, pool, waterfront, new construction, garage, school district and FEMA flood zone, plus a map tool to draw your own search boundary by hand. No account is required to search; a free "My Austin" login just saves searches and areas for later.
The tagline the site uses is plain on purpose: "Find the home. See the records around it." Every listing page carries the building permits, development filings, alcohol licenses, crashes, 311 requests, flood zone and soils recorded around that address, each labeled with its own date and source.
The neighborhood atlas: 3,871 guides, one worked example
As of Oct. 2, 2026, Austin Local Team's neighborhood section lists 3,871 neighborhood guides in its live catalog, plus 89 City and Census areas with published boundaries, 47 ZIP-level research pages and 44 longer editorial area write-ups (Austin Local Team, checked Oct. 2, 2026). The footprints are built from MLS subdivision names and recorded plats — approximate, not legal boundaries, and the site says so.
What does one guide actually contain? Hyde Park's page is one of the fact sheet's own standing examples, so here's what it showed when this desk checked it on Oct. 2, 2026:
| Record layer | What Hyde Park's page shows |
|---|---|
| Active listings | 17 homes for sale ($162,500–$1,995,000), 6 under contract, 38 active rentals |
| Construction permits | 766 issued in the past 2 years; 24 new residential buildings |
| Development projects | 153 with activity in the past 12 months; 2 site plans, 4 subdivision cases on file |
| Licenses & inspections | 4 new alcohol licenses in 12 months (68 active total); 15 food establishments inspected |
| Traffic crashes | 107 in the past 3 years (1 fatal, 0 serious injury) |
| 311 requests | 1,915 in the past 12 months (15 still open) |
| Flood & soils | 3.6% of homes in FEMA's 1% annual-chance floodplain; 33.9% on highly expansive clay |
| Transit | 28 CapMetro stops inside the area; 11 with service every 15 minutes or better |
None of these counts are a verdict on the neighborhood — they're public filings, logged with their source and date, same as everything else this desk publishes. A crash count or a permit total describes what's on record, not whether a street is a good fit for you.
The page also notes Austin ISD serves the area, states the district's current state accountability rating, and adds its own disclaimer that attendance zones require checking with the district directly for a specific address — campuses are listed, not ranked. Census data (ACS 2020–2024) on the same page shows roughly 27% of homes have an owner mailing address elsewhere and about 73% of households rent, which the page presents as occupancy data, not a description of who lives there.
This desk has used the same kind of records before: our own look at public filings around Travis Heights and Zilker and what's been filed in Mueller this year both pulled from this database, and both point readers to their neighborhood's own atlas page to see the full picture, not just what fit in one article.
The home value tool: not an automatic estimate
Austin Local Team's home-value tool is built around what it explicitly does not do: generate an automatic price. Its own copy says so directly — "No automatic price estimate" — and instead walks you through a comparative market analysis (CMA) that a local agent reviews by hand.
You submit the property's address plus owner-reported details (square footage, bedrooms, bathrooms, year built, condition), since the site notes public records "often miss square footage, rooms and updates." An agent then compares it against similar properties and returns a pricing-range conversation, not a single number. The site's own framing: "A CMA supports a pricing conversation. It is not an appraisal, a guaranteed sale price or a promise of what a lender will accept."
This is a human-reviewed process, not a same-day automated output — build in time for an agent to actually look at your numbers before you need an answer.
What locals should know
- It's a sister site, not a separate company pretending otherwise. Austin Local Team is a sister site of Austin Texas Things.
- Austin Local Team is brokered by All City Real Estate, ltd. Co. (TREC #9003633). The site's about page carries the TREC Information About Brokerage Services and Consumer Protection Notice.
- 3,871 is the live neighborhood-guide count, not a fixed number. It will change as the catalog grows; this desk will re-check it the next time it writes about the tool.
- Listing counts shift daily. The 13,032 figure above is a single-day snapshot of an MLS feed, not a standing total.
- The home-value tool won't hand you a number today. It starts a CMA conversation with a licensed agent — plan for a back-and-forth, not an instant quote.
- A 300-foot tower or a nine-building apartment filing changes what's around a listing fast. Our own coverage of West Campus's recent high-rise filing and Easton Park's new apartment permits are the kind of filings that show up in a neighborhood's permit count before they show up anywhere else.
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FAQ
Is Austin Local Team the same company as Austin Texas Things? No. It's a separate, affiliated site — Austin Local Team is a sister site of Austin Texas Things, built on the same public-records database. It's a real estate brokerage, not a publication.
Does the home-value tool give an instant price? No. Its own copy says "No automatic price estimate." It produces a comparative market analysis that a licensed agent reviews before you get a pricing range.
How many neighborhoods does the atlas cover? 3,871 neighborhood guides were live in the catalog as of Oct. 2, 2026, spanning Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop and Caldwell counties, per Austin Local Team's own data page.
Do I need an account to search homes? No. Searching is open to anyone. A free account only adds saved searches, saved areas and an optional daily email digest.
Where do the public records on each listing come from? City of Austin permit, site-plan and subdivision data; Texas TDLR project registrations; Austin Public Health inspections; TxDOT crash records; 311 requests; FEMA flood maps; and USGS/USDA geology and soils data — each shown with its own date and source on the page.
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