6401 Forest Hills Dr, Austin, TX 78746

Live here while you build! Unique opportunity to live in deluxe Barndo while you build on this lush private, heavily wooded, fenced and gated 1.6 ACRE lot in close in Westlake. No HOA. Metal Building has been finished out with 2500 square foot Barndominium with 1250 ft up and 1250 ft down including two bedrooms upstairs each with their own private bath and large walk in closets. Upstairs also includes an area plumbed & wired for a second kitchen. Downstairs has huge great room with stained concrete flooring, Venetian plaster walls and ceilings, full Kitchen, and half bath with laundry area. Central vac on both levels. Oversized garage has very high ceilings with RV parking bay with electric garage door opener PLUS additional garage bay with front and rear rollup doors. A full bath with shower is available adjacent to the garage for convenient cleanup. Hobbyists or car lovers will love the huge amount of work and storage space where multiple vehicles can be parked. Beautiful lot with several building sites. No Survey available - buyer will need to obtain their own.

Westlake Hills is an incorporated city in Austin's 78746 ZIP code, five minutes west of downtown via Bee Caves Road. Eanes ISD - ranked #1 in Texas by Niche 2026 - draws most buyers. Median home price $2.4M, with estates from $1.2M updates to $10M+ hilltop compounds.

Roughly 1,000 total homes sit on wooded lots averaging half an acre to two acres, spread across the hills south of the Colorado River. Lost Creek, Davenport Ranch, The Oaks, and Bee Caves Woods each have a different character - from 1970s ranches on established lots to new-build Hill Country Contemporary estates with 20-foot ceilings and limestone facades.

The housing stock is in a generational transition. Original 1970s-80s ranch homes sell as teardowns at $1-2M for land alone, replaced by $3-8M contemporary builds. At any given time, 25-30 homes are actively listed. Inventory is tight, and a meaningful share of deals happen off-market through agent networks.

What defines daily life here: morning coffee at Swedish Hill, school drop-off at Eanes Elementary or Bridge Point, a trail run at Wild Basin Preserve, and dinner at Sway or Las Palomas without crossing MoPac. This is a quiet neighborhood built around schools and outdoor access, not nightlife or walkable retail. The people who live here chose it for exactly that trade-off.