Frequently Asked Questions

SR Group is a 13-person residential real estate team at Compass in Austin, Texas, led by principal Jeffrey Grant. The team advises buyers, sellers, investors, and developers across Austin and Central Texas, and handles everything from first homes to waterfront estates. It was founded in 2013 as Saddle Realty and joined Compass in 2019.

SR Group serves Austin and the surrounding Central Texas region, including West Lake Hills, Lakeway, Bee Cave, Dripping Springs, Cedar Park, Leander, Round Rock, Georgetown, Buda, Kyle, San Marcos, New Braunfels, Wimberley, Marble Falls, and Fredericksburg. The team also handles referrals and transactions in San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Waco.

No. SR Group is a team of real estate agents affiliated with Compass. The licensed broker is Compass RE Texas, LLC, Texas broker license 9006927. Jeffrey Grant holds Texas real estate license 617651 and has been licensed since 2011.

RealTrends + The Wall Street Journal ranked SR Group #21 in Austin for 2026. Jeffrey Grant was named a Platinum Top 500 REALTOR® in 2026 and earned the Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist (CLHMS) designation in 2019. He also serves on the Board of Regents of LuxuryRealEstate.com.

SR Group is built around agent autonomy rather than a lead-handoff model: each agent works with their own clients from first consultation through closing, instead of passing them between prospecting, buyer, and listing specialists. Across the roster the team carries more than 118 years of combined experience and more than 800 transactions. Principal Jeffrey Grant is an Austin native licensed since 2011, with a background spanning construction, commercial marketing, and brokerage ownership.

Central Austin buys you proximity and established character: smaller lots, older housing stock, walkability, and a short commute, at a higher price per square foot. The suburbs buy you square footage, newer construction, and often a different school district, at the cost of a longer drive. Central Austin inventory is also tighter, because the land is already built out, so well-priced homes there tend to move faster.

Waterfront due diligence is a different exercise from a standard home purchase. Verify where the property line actually ends relative to the shoreline, whether the dock is permitted and transferable, the historic water level range for that specific lake, LCRA or governing authority rules, septic condition, and flood zone designation. Lake Austin is constant-level while Lake Travis fluctuates substantially, and that single difference changes what you own.

Yes. SR Group works across the full range of the Austin and Central Texas market, including first-time buyers. Several agents on the team specialise in first-time and move-up buyers. The team holds the CLHMS luxury designation and sells waterfront estates, but that is one part of the practice rather than a floor on who it represents.

They are properties shared through private agent networks before, or instead of, public listing portals. SR Group accesses them through Compass private exclusives and affiliations including the Austin Luxury Network and Clubhouse. One honest limit is worth knowing: under the NAR Clear Cooperation Policy, once a listing is publicly marketed in any form, the listing broker has one business day to submit it to the MLS. So a genuinely off-market property is one that has not been publicly marketed at all, and the window on a "coming soon" property is short by design.

Call the SR Group office at (512) 993-4663 or Jeffrey Grant directly at (512) 484-9146, or email info@srgcompass.com. The office is at 2500 Bee Caves Rd, Bldg 3, Ste 200, Austin, TX 78746.

It depends on your income, and the trade runs both ways. Texas levies no personal state income tax and funds schools, counties, and cities largely through property tax instead, so the tax you stop paying scales with what you earn and the tax you start paying scales with what your house is worth. A two-earner household on a high income usually comes out ahead. A retired couple with modest income buying a large house often does not. Our relocation page works through the arithmetic and links the Travis County Tax Office and the Texas Comptroller, which are the only sources worth trusting on current rates.

There is no single rate, and any page quoting one should be treated with suspicion. Your rate is the sum of overlapping jurisdictions: county, city, school district, community college district, and often a hospital district or a MUD. Each sets its own rate annually, and two houses a mile apart can carry noticeably different bills on the same assessed value. Look up the specific address at the Travis County Tax Office.

Plan 60 to 90 days from the first lender conversation to keys, assuming financing. Get underwritten rather than pre-qualified early, narrow areas before houses, and come for a structured two or three day tour trip rather than touring at random. The step-by-step is on the buying page.

Yes, and it is routine. Texas closings run through a title company rather than an attorney, and documents can be signed by mobile notary or, in many cases, by remote online notarisation. Plenty of our out-of-state clients never sit in the room.

It is the negotiated window after going under contract in which a buyer can terminate for any reason at all, in exchange for a fee paid to the seller. Inspections happen inside it. It is short, it is the single most important thing in a Texas contract for a buyer, and out-of-state buyers most often misjudge it because their previous state had nothing quite like it.

Less than people assume. Most portal ratings are third-party composites weighted heavily toward standardised test scores, which track household income in the attendance zone closely. Two things matter more: the attendance zone verified on the specific address, because zones cut across neighborhood and ZIP boundaries and get redrawn, and the state accountability rating at TXschools.gov. Our schools guide covers the districts we work in.

It depends far more on your commute and what you are leaving than on any ranking of neighborhoods. Start at the Austin page, which sorts the city by neighborhood, by area, by surrounding community, and by Texas market, or read the area-by-area comparison on the relocation page.

Yes. Most of our work is Austin and Central Texas, and we also handle referrals and transactions in San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Waco. Beyond Texas we place clients with agents we know personally through Compass and the Rise Referral Network, where Jeffrey Grant has served two years on the Steering Committee. See Texas markets we serve.

Ask and we will send the current one. We keep it off the public site deliberately: a published directory goes stale, and the inspector or arborist who was right two years ago may not be the one we would send you to today. Get in touch and tell us what you need.

The advisor you first speak to runs your consultation, walks the properties, writes the offer, and sits with you at closing. Teams this size often hand a client along a chain of specialists; we do not. Taking the advisory role seriously means showing you what the closed comparables actually support and what a house will need once you own it, early enough that it can change what you do.