Located in the Highland-Skyview borderlands, this single-family home 1950s home offers a central-city location convenient to North Lamar and Airport bus routes and the Highland ACC campus. (You’ll get used to the occasional volleys of gunfire from the nearby DPS practice ranges.) The 585-square-foot home has two bedrooms and one bathroom and recent recent updates including stainless kitchen appliances, new wood floors, and new exterior and interior paint. Price: $275,000

The price is right for calling this a “starter” home, but it might take a while to feel crowded out of its 1,268 square feet, three bedrooms, and two bathrooms. It was built in 1981 and has the prominent, two-car garage to prove it; it also has two stories and a large yard. It’s located in a Southwest Austin subdivision called Sunset, not far from Sunset Valley, and is about as far west as you’re going to find a single-family Austin home that fits the “starter” category. Price: $275,000.

This 1,023-square-foot home in the North Lamar neighborhood was built in 1971 but has been spiffed up with fresh paint and made move-in ready. It’s on a a cul-de-sac and has three bedrooms and one bathroom. Price: $239,900

An updated 1950s home on a shared Wooten lot now owned under a condo regime, this one-story house has two bedrooms and two bathrooms in 1,034 square feet. Its retro charms include a bright kitchen with vintage tile and built in cabinets, wood floors, and more vintage tile and fixtures in the bathroom. Price: $285,000, $300 HOAs.

The exterior of this Northwest Hills condo complex doesn’t wow, but it looks like it’s in perfectly good shape. The interior is a livelier and comfortable looking. It’s an upstairs, two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit measuring 967 square feet. It has wood and tile flooring, two private patios, a fireplace, and an updated kitchen with stainless-steel appliances. Price: $225,000, $338 HOAs

This 1,452-square-foot, two-story home in East Riverside has a unit designation, so it’s technically a condo, but it has no HOA fees—it’s possibly a detached, single-family house on a shared lot. It has tiled floors, a fireplace, and a deck, as well as three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Price: $249,000

It would be a sad roundup of this sort that didn’t include a cute Clarksville condo. This one is in a throwback-looking 1950s complex but looks on-trend and updated inside. It has one bedroom and one bathroom, quartz counter tops and stainless-steel appliances, and laundry facilities in the unit. Price: $305,000, $119 HOAs.

If there’s anything that can make you feel more like a young urban sophisticate than an apartment in which your bed is separated from the living room and kitchen only by a smartly designed, well-curated set of bookshelves, it’s gazing at the skyline from the apartment’s generous windows. All of that can happen in this 575-square-foot Embassy condo in Central East Austin. Price: $310,000, $322 HOAs.