907 Tillery St Unit #1, Austin, TX 78702

Modern Luxury Home in the Heart of EAST AUSTIN! Stunning modern interior with pristine white oak floors, designer fixtures, high ceilings, recessed lighting, walls of windows, and more! This tech-savvy smart home offers a smart thermostat, App-controlled blackout window treatments, 2 exterior security cameras, and a Ring doorbell. The main floor offers a bright open floor plan for the living room dining area and chef-inspired gourmet island kitchen. The secluded main floor owner’s suite offers a breathtaking private ensuite bathroom with floating vanities, a spectacular walk-in shower, and a must-see designer walk-in closet with custom shoe and handbag storage. Upstairs you will find a media room (or 4th BD), and 2 gorgeous secondary bedrooms with a stunning Jack-n-Jill Bathroom. See the full list of features and upgrades (attached). You’ll love the privacy of a fully fenced-in 7000 Sq Ft lot with a 6’ electric gate, 8’ fencing, and a single car garage. Featuring large front and back yards (plenty of space for a pool), an inviting front porch, a fenced dog run, and an amazing breezy covered back porch with a 30" built-in gas Coyote grill with infrared heat and rotisserie under a custom iron pergola. There’s also a storage shed on a level concrete pad. You’ll love the convenient East Austin location. Enjoy living within walking distance to a plethora of Austin’s hippest restaurants and entertainment spots. Enjoy locally grown & sourced produce, meat, and dairy from Boggy Creek Farms, located just around the corner. Easily stay fit while enjoying Austin’s great outdoors with both the Lady Bird Hike & Bike Trail and the Southern Walnut Creek Trail (Govalle Park) both less than a mile away. Walk, bike, or take a scooter to everything!

East Austin is the only neighborhood in the city where you can walk from a James Beard Award-winning restaurant to a converted warehouse gallery to a live music venue to a craft cocktail bar without ever getting in your car. That walkability, combined with a building boom that has reshaped the housing stock over the past decade, makes East Austin the most dynamic real estate market in Central Texas.

East Austin stretches from I-35 on the west to Highway 183 on the east, with Lady Bird Lake forming the southern boundary and roughly MLK Boulevard marking the northern edge of the 78702 core. The 78722 zip extends the identity further north and east. Downtown is immediately across I-35 - five minutes by car, 15 by bicycle. East Cesar Chavez, East 6th, and East 7th serve as commercial corridors, each with its own personality. East Cesar Chavez leans toward taquerias and family shops, East 6th trends cocktail bars and restaurants, East 7th mixes galleries with newer retail.

Modern townhomes and duplexes make up about 35% of sales activity, concentrated on infill lots. Original shotgun bungalows and Craftsman homes account for 25%, mostly on quieter streets east of Chicon - typically 800 to 1,200 square feet on generous lots with ADU potential. Contemporary custom homes represent 15%, with architects like Bercy Chen and Alterstudio producing some of the most interesting residential design in Texas. Unrenovated bungalows start in the mid-$400s. Renovated historic homes with ADUs land between $700,000 and $1 million. New townhomes cluster around $600,000 to $900,000. Custom builds cross $1.5 million.

East Austin falls within Austin ISD. Zavala Elementary and Blackshear Elementary handle early grades. Martin and Kealing Middle Schools are the primary options, with Kealing's magnet program drawing students districtwide. Eastside Memorial High School serves the area, though many families opt for LASA, private schools, or open-enrollment options. The school landscape is more complex than in neighborhoods with a single feeder pattern, and specific addresses matter.

The lifestyle is what people picture when they think of modern Austin. Morning starts at Cenote or Fleet Coffee. Franklin Barbecue's line forms early, but locals order ahead. The dining concentration is remarkable. Suerte does modern Mexican with in-house nixtamal. Nixta Taqueria won a James Beard Award. Launderette turns a converted laundromat into one of Austin's best brunch spots. Canje brings Caribbean cooking to Holly Street. Kemuri Tatsu-Ya fuses izakaya with smokehouse. Via 313 has been making Detroit-style pizza since before the current boom. The Butler Trail, Boggy Creek Greenbelt, Roy Guerrero Park, and Mueller Lake Park provide outdoor options.

East Austin offers urban density and walkability unmatched outside downtown, at prices that undercut the west side significantly. Compared to South Congress, it provides more housing variety and better value per square foot. Compared to Mueller, it trades master-planned orderliness for more character. The main concerns are the pace of change and the east-west infrastructure divide, which has narrowed but still shows in some areas.

East Austin is for buyers who want to live in Austin's cultural energy rather than commute to it. It fits people who eat out frequently, bike to work, and value diversity of experience. It works for investors who see ADU potential in the generous lots. If you need a large lot, a quiet cul-de-sac, or a top suburban school, look elsewhere. But if you want to walk out your front door and feel the pulse of what makes Austin different from every other Texas city, there is no better address.