4918 Rollingwood Dr, West Lake Hills, TX 78746

If you’ve ever wanted to live where kids can ride their bikes to school, walk to the pool and run up for french fries with friends, this is that house. It sits on the corner of “Main and Main” in Rollingwood, at the four-way stop on Rollingwood Drive and Ridgewood, just a few doors down from the Rollingwood park and pool. Downtown Austin is a quick 5 to 7 minute drive. Gery Wilde built the home in 2008, and it’s been recently updated and ready to move into. Llano stone and a metal roof on the outside.....then you walk in where it feels fresh and modern, with white oak floors throughout and all new metal windows and doors. The living room, dining and kitchen are one big open room that spills right out to the covered porches and the pool. The office and the primary suite both have fireplaces and open to the pool as well. Upstairs, the kids get their own world with homework desks, a game room and a pitch black media room… great for movie night and sleepovers. Over the garage there’s a guest suite for visitors, or a quiet place to work with a beautiful covered porch overlooking the pool. There’s plenty of room in the backyard for dogs and trampolines, but around here, the real backyard is the neighborhood.

Rollingwood is an independent city of 1,500 people in 0.7 square miles of 78746, between Zilker Park and Barton Creek. Eanes ISD schools, 10-minute commute to downtown, and the shortest path into the #1-ranked school district in Texas. Median home price around $2.7M.

The neighborhood is in a generational transition. Original 1950s-60s ranch homes on flat lots (0.2-0.5 acres) sell as teardowns at $800K-$1.5M, replaced by contemporary builds in the $2M-$4M range. New construction and original homes sit side by side on narrow streets. At any given time, expect 5-10 active listings across the entire city.

Zilker Park is essentially the front yard - 351 acres of playgrounds, the Botanical Garden, Barton Springs Pool, and the Zilker Eagle train. The Barton Creek Greenbelt runs along the southern edge with Spyglass and Gus Fruh trailheads a 3-minute drive from most homes. South Lamar corridor restaurants - Uchi, Odd Duck, Matt's El Rancho - are five minutes east.

What separates Rollingwood from the rest of Westlake: the scale. You know the mayor, you see the same families at the park, and the Fourth of July parade runs down Rollingwood Drive. It has the feel of a small Texas town that happens to sit between Zilker Park and Barton Creek, inside Eanes ISD.