Cimarron Hills

The feel of Cimarron Hills

Cimarron Hills is a different proposition from everything else on the 29 corridor. West of Georgetown behind a staffed gatehouse, it’s a private golf and country club community built around the Austin area’s only Jack Nicklaus Signature course — and the club is not an amenity center with a lifeguard, it’s a working country club with dining, a spa, fitness, tennis, and pickleball, staffed accordingly. The streets are quiet and finished, the landscaping is mature by corridor standards, and the housing is custom and semi-custom with real architectural variety: limestone and stucco, tile and standing-seam roofs, courtyards, casitas, and no floor plan repeating three doors down.

The social fabric follows the club. Golf leagues, tennis ladders, and the member calendar are the neighborhood’s common ground, and residents largely chose the place for exactly that. If the club life appeals, there’s nothing else like it this far north. If it doesn’t, be honest with yourself — you’d be paying for a membership you won’t use, in a community organized around it.

The homes and the market

Per Redfin and Zillow public market data as of mid-2026, sales range from the mid $500s for the community’s lock-and-leave villas to about $2.25M for estate customs on the course, with the median sale over the past year landing near $1.1M — verify current. Homes typically run 2,500–5,000+ square feet on lots from a quarter-acre to well past a half-acre, with fairway and hill-country views commanding the premiums you’d expect. Homesites remain available, and custom builds continue at a measured pace — this is build-among-finished-streets construction, not phase-by-phase production, and we can introduce the process if building is the goal.

Two market realities to respect. First, this is a niche: the buyer pool for a $1.2M gated golf property in Georgetown is real but thin, so homes here average 60–70 days on market and pricing discipline matters far more than in the production suburbs. Second, the villas and smaller homes behave differently from the estates — they draw lock-and-leave and downsizing buyers and move on their own rhythm. We price the segment, not the gate.

Schools, taxes, and the practical file

Start with the pleasant surprise: no MUD. Cimarron Hills’ effective property tax rate runs roughly 1.6–1.8% — around a full percentage point below the new master-plans nearby, which on a $1M home is in the neighborhood of $800–$900 a month of difference. That gap quietly finances a lot of club dues.

Now the club math, because it’s part of the purchase. Every owner carries a resident social membership through the HOA assessment; golf is a separate membership with a five-figure initiation and ongoing dues — verify current figures with the club, as structures change. We put the full stack — taxes, HOA, membership, dues — on one page next to the mortgage before you write, because the true monthly cost is the honest comparison against a Wolf Ranch or a custom acreage property.

Schools are the detail that catches buyers: the community splits between two districts. The northern portion zones to Georgetown ISD — San Gabriel Elementary, Benold Middle, East View High — while the southern portion zones to Liberty Hill ISD, feeding Rancho Sienna Elementary, Santa Rita Middle, and Liberty Hill’s high schools. Two comparable homes a street apart can carry different districts, different calendars, and different bond trajectories. We verify the zoning for the specific lot, every time, and both districts redraw lines as they grow.

Getting around

The gate sits on Highway 29 a few miles west of I-35, which makes Georgetown’s square and Wolf Ranch retail a 10–15 minute run and Lake Georgetown’s parks closer still. Austin is the honest trade-off: downtown runs 45–65 minutes at peak and the Domain 35–45, via 29 to I-35 or south through Ronald Reagan and 183A — and 29 carries every rooftop the corridor keeps adding. Most residents here aren’t commuting daily; the community skews toward established households, remote and flexible workers, and buyers oriented to Georgetown rather than Austin. If a daily downtown desk is your life, run the drive at rush hour twice before committing to it.

Who it fits

Cimarron Hills fits buyers who want the club as much as the house: golfers first, obviously, but also households that value a staffed gate, finished streets, custom architecture, and a low tax rate, and who are content trading proximity to Austin for all of it. It’s a strong answer for lock-and-leave buyers who split the year elsewhere. It doesn’t fit budget-stretched buyers for whom the dues would pinch, families who need certainty about a single school district without checking a map, or anyone who wants restaurants and errands inside the neighborhood. For the master-plan version of Georgetown living with lower entry pricing, look at Wolf Ranch; for small-town acreage energy up the road, start with Liberty Hill. We’ll lay the full monthly cost of each side by side and let the math talk.