What does it cost to live at Onion Creek Club?

Homes inside the Onion Creek boundary around Onion Creek sold for a median of $535,000 over the 12 months ending September 2026, across 47 sales, versus $559,500 the year before. Houses, 33 of the sales, had a median of $615,000, and condos, 14 sales, $312,500. 25 listings are for sale today. The right number for a specific home comes from recent sales of the same type and size on nearby streets.

Rick's read is an initiation in the moderate five figures, plus monthly dues and a food-and-beverage minimum. Onion Creek is one of the more accessible established private clubs in Austin: membership is usually open, there are several categories, and guest privileges are generous. Arcis Golf owns the club, so ask whether your class includes access to other Arcis courses. Confirm current numbers with the club before you budget.

No. At Onion Creek, like most Austin clubs, buying a home and joining the club are separate decisions. Owning a house on the course does not make you a member, and you can usually join without living in Onion Creek. Your property HOA is separate from the club and has its own dues. If membership matters to you, start the club conversation at the same time as the home search, because the club's timeline, not the closing, is usually the slower one.

Jimmy Demaret, the three-time Masters champion, designed Onion Creek, his only course design, and it opened in 1974. The club hosted the Legends of Golf from 1978 to 1989, the event credited with launching what became the Senior PGA Tour in 1980. It now has 27 holes. After flood damage, Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw led a restoration, and Arcis Golf owns the club today.

The median home around Onion Creek went under contract in 53 days over the last 12 months, versus 54 days the year before, counted on cumulative days on market so relisted homes are not reset. It sold for 95.7% of its original list price, and 47% of the homes that sold had cut their price. Add about 30 to 45 days from contract to closing. A home priced in line with recent sales on launch day usually beats the median.

Over the last 12 months, Onion Creek had 47 sales at a median of $535,000 and 53 days on market. For comparison, over 12 months, Grey Rock at Circle C had 214 sales at a median of $800,000 and 16 days on market, and Driftwood had 69 sales at a median of $974,000 and 61 days on market. Each club's median reflects its own mix of condos, older houses and new construction, so compare the same home type and size. Rick can pull side-by-side sales for the specific homes you are weighing, and walk you through how the clubs themselves differ.

The MLS does not flag course frontage reliably, so we do not publish a course-lot premium for Onion Creek. In practice, a lot on the course sells for more than a similar house a street away when the view is good and the lot sits away from the landing areas. What matters is which side of the fairway, how close to a tee or green, and how much the lot sits above the course. Rick knows which streets back to the course and can tell you how each lot plays.

Start with the documents: the HOA and any sub-association rules, leasing and short-term rental limits, golf-ball easements on course-side lots, and whether a seller's club membership can transfer. Onion Creek has flooded in the past, so pull the FEMA flood zone and ask for the flood history and insurance cost on every home near the creek. Rick adds one more: ask the club, not only the seller, about the current membership timeline before you plan around playing the day you move in.

Of the 33 houses with a recorded build year that sold around Onion Creek in the last 12 months, 17 were built before 1990, 16 between 1990 and 2009, and 0 in 2010 or later. The median house measured about 2,626 square feet and sold for about $241 per square foot, and the median lot was 0.26 acres. By price, 42 sales closed under $750,000, 5 from $750,000 to $1.5 million, 0 from $1.5 to $3 million and 0 at $3 million or more.

Tell Rick what you want in a club and a home. He can arrange a clubhouse tour and an honest membership conversation at Onion Creek, and walk you through the homes around the course, including ones he hears about before they list. If you are seriously looking, he will also host you for a round at Westlake Country Club, his home club, to compare notes. Meanwhile, save a search inside the Onion Creek boundary so new listings reach you first.