Don’t look — “Bird Box” star Trevante Rhodes sold his Austin waterfront property in an off-market trade.
Rhodes, best known for his roles in “The Predator” and the Oscar-winning movie “Moonlight,” sold his property at 3719 Bee Creek Road in Spicewood, near Austin, according to public records.
The buyer is an LLC tied to Dallas-based New Western, a house-flipping investment platform led by co-founder and President Kurt Carlton.
The sale price is unavailable. The last public sale represented on Zillow and Redfin took place in 2016.
Rhodes bought the property in 2022 when it was listed for $1.5 million, according to public records and a dormant listing website. The value of the land — 2.4 acres on a branch of the coveted Colorado River — greatly outstrips the value of the 2,600-square-foot three-bedroom, three-bathroom house built in 1998. Travis County appraises the land at $1.1 million and the house at $700,000.
The property’s size and riverfront site make it ripe for a luxury redevelopment.
Riverfront homes dominate Austin’s luxury market. The top public sale of 2025 was a 3.17-acre estate north of Bee Cave on the Colorado River, asking $16.9 million. Rhodes’ former home is about a 10-mile paddle away from the Bond House, sold by “Machete” director Robert Rodriguez last year with an asking price of $7.9 million.
When Rhodes bought the property, Austin was enjoying the height of its tech-fueled real estate boom. Now, Austin leads the nation in home value declines, registering the greatest drop in average home value since its last market peak in 2022, according to Zillow. Among markets with at least 1 million residents, Austin had the steepest drop in median home price in the third quarter, year-over-year. While the national median home price rose by 4.8 percent to $375,000, the median in the Austin-Round Rock area fell by 8.2 percent to $416,000. Rhodes is just the latest movie actor to sell a home in Austin. Emma Stone sold her Tarrytown mansion last month after asking $23.5 million for the house.
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