Canyon Lake is full again. As of August 28, 2026, Water Data for Texas showed the reservoir at 100 percent of conservation capacity, sitting about 909.3 feet, a few inches into the flood pool. Conservation full is 909.0 feet. The flood pool still has a long way to 943 feet, so “full” here means water supply is restored, not that the Corps is out of flood space.
That is the fact that matters this month. When the lake was low, Facebook argued. Now that it is full, Facebook is still arguing. Meanwhile people are fishing, tubing, and looking at waterfront again. The comment section is not a market report.
What “full” actually changes
Waterfront and true water-access listings live and die on the lake, not on a Facebook thread. A dock that sat in mud is in water. A cove that looked like a bathtub ring is a cove again. Buyers who went quiet in the 50 to 60 percent days come back when they can picture a boat in the slip.
Off-water and acreage do not get the same pop. Those properties were never priced off the lake gauge. They still sell on land, well, septic, school, commute, and whether the number on the sign matches what similar tracts have actually done. If a listing sits, it is usually the price, not the fact that Canyon Lake filled up.
I am not going to invent a median sold price or a days-on-market average for this page. If a number is not sourced, it does not belong here. Ask for current comps on a specific property. Do not treat a viral lake photo as a comp.
What I am seeing
Waterfront that is priced like recent similar sales still gets traffic. Waterfront that was priced like 2021, or priced like the seller has been waiting for the lake to save them, sits. The lake coming back does not erase a high ask.
Acreage and houses off the water have more room to talk. Buyers who got priced out of the water are looking at those, and they will use days on market against you if you test a fantasy number for three weeks first.
The Guadalupe and New Braunfels comparison keeps coming up. They are not the same product. Canyon Lake is a reservoir with a conservation pool and a flood pool. River frontage is a different legal and practical animal. If you are choosing between them, start with how you actually use the water, not with which town name sounds better in a listing.
Buyers
Ask whether the lot is true waterfront, water-view, or water-access. Those three get used interchangeably in conversation and they are not the same. Ask who owns the land to the water, whether a dock is permitted, and what happens to that dock when the lake drops again, because it will.
On acreage, ask about the well, the septic, and whether you can actually build what you think you can build. A pretty drone shot of a full lake does not answer those.
Do not write an offer off the list price alone. Ask how long it has been sitting and what changed. Sitting usually means the market already voted.
Sellers
If you are on the water and the number is honest, be ready. Full-pool season is when the photos match the dream. If you are off the water, get the price right in week one. Testing high “because the lake is back” is how you become the listing everyone uses as the high comp they will not pay.
Price to what has actually traded, not to what a neighbor thinks their place is worth after a wet summer.
What this page will not do
It will not quote a fake average price for Canyon Lake. It will not tell you the lake will stay full. It will not treat Facebook as inventory data.
Lake level source: Water Data for Texas, Canyon Lake, August 28, 2026.
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Russell Martinez, REALTOR, Res & Ranch. TREC 470737. Central Texas, about a 90-mile ring around Wimberley, including Canyon Lake. Office (512) 829-3580. Direct (512) 580-8881.