Drive out Bee Creek Road toward the south shore of Lake Travis this month and you will pass a finished golf course before you pass a finished house. The Beau Welling-designed layout at Travis Club is done, its fairways cut in and its signature fifth hole ready for the 240-yard carry over a finger of the lake. Members will play all 18 holes for the first time over Labor Day weekend, September 5, 2026. Turn toward the residential side of the property, though, and the picture changes. As of the developer's own spring 2026 progress update, ten homes were under active construction and just over forty more were sitting in design review, out of roughly 165 homesites sold since the community launched.
That gap between what is finished and what is still a stake in the ground is not a flaw in the project. It is the actual shape of what a buyer is purchasing right now. Anyone comparing Travis Club to an established Lake Travis address like Lakeway is comparing a golf course you can walk today to a neighborhood you are, in large part, still waiting on.
Membership Is A Separate Purchase, Except When It Isn't
Buying a home at Travis Club does not automatically make you a club member. That distinction matters more here than at an older private community because the club itself, not just the neighborhood, is still being built out.
The current path around that gap is bundling. According to the club's own recruiting materials for its general manager role, Sports and Social Membership is included in the purchase price when you buy directly from the developer's current inventory, with the initiation fee for that membership tier currently set at $80,000. That is a meaningful number to have folded into a homesite price rather than billed on top of it.
It is also a number that quietly explains the pace of sales. A buyer purchasing today from the developer's remaining Phase 2 inventory gets club access built into the deal. A buyer purchasing the same home two or three years from now, on the resale market, has no guarantee that arrangement carries forward. Whether a future seller can transfer that bundled membership, or whether a resale buyer would need to pay initiation separately, is a question with real financial weight and no public answer yet. If you are looking at a resale contract at Travis Club, get the membership terms in writing before you get attached to the view.
What's Actually Finished Right Now
The easiest way to evaluate a pre-construction private club is to separate the finished from the promised. Here is where Travis Club stood as of this summer:
| Already open or complete | Still ahead |
|---|---|
| Golf course, 18 holes, par 71, playable starting Labor Day weekend 2026 | The Gatehouse, targeted to open alongside the course |
| Golf House, including pro shop and restaurant, expected spring 2027 | |
| Private marina, with construction starting this year | |
| Peninsula Club, including pool and racquet courts | |
| Duke's lakefront social hub and The Tree Bar, dining concepts still finishing out |
Every listing photo and rendering for Travis Club draws from the right-hand column as much as the left. That is not misleading, it is how new private communities are sold. But it means a buyer's diligence has to include a plain question to the sales office: which of these amenities exist today, in usable form, and which are still on a construction schedule set by someone else.
Every Homesite Still Has To Clear Design Review
Owning a lot at Travis Club does not mean you can start building on your own schedule. The community operates a formal Design Review process, and every home has to move through it before a builder breaks ground. That review is intended to keep the architecture consistent with the Hill Country setting, but it is also a real gate in your timeline, not a formality.
The developer maintains a list of approved builders for the community, including Cedar & Oak, Texas Sage Custom Homes, Sendero Homes, Elev8 Builders, Laurel Haven Homes, Crabtree Design + Build, and Jenkins Design Build, among others. Working with a builder who has already been through Travis Club's review process at least once tends to move faster than starting with a firm unfamiliar with the club's guidelines. That is a small piece of local knowledge that can save real months.
The Timeline You're Actually Buying
Travis Club's CEO told Community Impact this spring that the community is planned for nearly 700 total homesites, with pricing starting in the early $700,000s, and that first move-ins are expected in early 2027. If you buy a homesite today, sign with an approved builder, and move through design review without delay, you are still likely looking at a home that isn't move-in ready before next year at the earliest, and that assumes no weather delays, material delays, or review revisions along the way.
That timeline is worth sitting with before you commit earnest money. A buyer who wants to be on the lake this season is shopping in the wrong neighborhood. A buyer thinking in a three to five year horizon, who wants to lock in developer-direct pricing and a bundled membership while the community is still filling in, is shopping in exactly the right one.
More than half the property is set aside for the golf course, open space, and conservation areas rather than additional lots, according to the development team's own planning statements. That land-use choice is part of what supports the privacy and view corridors buyers are paying for, and it is also part of why the community is unfolding in phases rather than all at once.
One More Thing Before You Tour
Travis Club's sales office requires a Real Estate Agent Co-op Program registration form to be completed on your very first visit if you are accompanied by an agent. If you tour the sales center on your own first and a Travis Club representative registers you as a prospect, that step can void the co-op commission for any agent you bring in later. Practically, that means the order of operations matters. If you want representation through this purchase, from reading the membership terms correctly to timing your build against the design review calendar, that representation needs to start before your first visit, not after.
Leah Petri has represented buyers and sellers directly in Travis Club and across Lake Travis, and the mechanics above are exactly the kind of detail that separates a straightforward purchase from an expensive surprise six months in.
A Few Direct Questions
Does buying a home at Travis Club automatically make me a club member? No. Membership is structured separately from the real estate purchase. When you buy directly from the developer's current inventory, Sports and Social Membership is currently bundled into that price at an $80,000 initiation value. Resale terms are a separate conversation and should be confirmed in writing before you sign.
When would I actually be able to move in if I bought today? The developer's own spring 2026 statements point to early 2027 for the first residents, and that is contingent on your homesite already having a builder, an approved design, and a construction schedule underway. New buyers starting the design review process today should plan on a longer runway than that.
Is there a downside to touring on my own before bringing an agent? Yes. Travis Club's co-op program ties commission eligibility to when an agent is registered relative to your first visit. Registering before that first tour protects your ability to have representation throughout the transaction.
If you are weighing a homesite here against another Lake Travis address, or trying to figure out what a bundled membership is actually worth against a resale price down the road, The Petri Group can walk through the numbers with you before you sign anything. Receive Exclusive Listings in Your Inbox to see what's moving in Travis Club and the rest of the Lake Travis corridor as it happens.
