Actress Emma Stone Lists Austin Home for $27 Million

21 May 2025

An A-lister’s renovation project in Tarrytown is headed to market.

Actress Emma Stone listed her recently renovated estate in the West Austin neighborhood for $26.5 million, positioning it among the priciest residential listings in the city, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The 10,000-square-foot property, spanning 1.25 acres, includes a Georgian-style main house dating to the 1940s and a two-bedroom guesthouse. The site also features a pool, hot tub and a garage with a screening room and entertainment space above. It’s asking roughly $2,650 per square foot.

Eric Moreland and Diane Humphreys of Moreland Properties and Forbes Global Properties have the listing.

It represents a change of plans for Stone and her husband, comedy writer Dave McCary, after the two spent more than three years restoring the home since purchasing it in 2021 with plans to relocate from New York City.

The project included reconfiguring the layout for a more open plan, upgrading mechanical systems and reinstalling the original brick after it was cleaned by hand. The millwork in the garage screening room reportedly took over a year to complete. Contractors are finalizing touches on the property.

County records log over $11 million in improvements in the years since the couple purchased the home, dropping almost $3.5 million this year alone. The home’s taxable value was most recently appraised at $7.3 million.

The couple co-founded production company Fruit Tree and live in New York, where they own a $12 million apartment. The couple’s expanding business commitments in New York led to the decision to sell the Austin property, a spokesperson said.

Stone has a track record of profitable real estate flips. In 2022, she sold her Malibu blufftop home for $4.425 million after buying it for $3.25 million in 2018. In 2023, she sold another Los Angeles property for $4.3 million — nearly double what she paid in 2019.

The home’s $26.5 million asking price makes it one of the top residential listings in Austin.

Austin’s luxury market is seeing high-end movement despite a broader cooling in the city’s housing market. Several $20 million-plus transactions have closed in recent months, Moreland said, even as pandemic-era migration trends begin to fall off.

Last week, 15 deals closed for homes last listed for more than $2 million in Austin, seven more than the week before, according to Eklund Gomes. The priciest was for a 5,500-square-foot home at 300 Stonewall Lane in Rollingwood, which last asked nearly $6 million, or about $1,090 per square foot.

— Judah Duke