Tanglewood Forest is Austin’s hottest neighborhood of 2026, followed by Buttercup Creek and Behrens Ranch. The list includes neighborhoods close to downtown Austin as well as suburbs farther out. 

This is according to a Redfin analysis ranking U.S. zip codes in Austin’s metro area by year-over-year growth in listing views on Redfin.com and Redfin Compete Score, a measure of how difficult it is to win a home. See the methodology section at the end of this report for more details. 

Austin is a buyer’s market, but Scott Gustafson, Redfin’s Austin sales manager, said competition is concentrated in pockets rather than spread across the metro area.