SR GroupThe Premier Choice in Austin & Central Texas Real Estate

SR Group is a 13-person residential real estate team at Compass in Austin, Texas, led by principal Jeffrey Grant. The team advises buyers, sellers, investors, and developers across Austin and Central Texas, and handles everything from first homes to waterfront estates. It was founded in 2013 as Saddle Realty and joined Compass in 2019.

SR Group serves Austin and the surrounding Central Texas region, including West Lake Hills, Lakeway, Bee Cave, Dripping Springs, Cedar Park, Leander, Round Rock, Georgetown, Buda, Kyle, San Marcos, New Braunfels, Wimberley, Marble Falls, and Fredericksburg. The team also handles referrals and transactions in San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Waco.

No. SR Group is a team of real estate agents affiliated with Compass. The licensed broker is Compass RE Texas, LLC, Texas broker license 9006927. Jeffrey Grant holds Texas real estate license 617651 and has been licensed since 2011.

RealTrends + The Wall Street Journal ranked SR Group #21 in Austin for 2026. Jeffrey Grant was named a Platinum Top 500 REALTOR® in 2026 and earned the Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist (CLHMS) designation in 2019. He also serves on the Board of Regents of LuxuryRealEstate.com.

SR Group is built around agent autonomy rather than a lead-handoff model: each agent works with their own clients from first consultation through closing, instead of passing them between prospecting, buyer, and listing specialists. Across the roster the team carries more than 118 years of combined experience and more than 800 transactions. Principal Jeffrey Grant is an Austin native licensed since 2011, with a background spanning construction, commercial marketing, and brokerage ownership.

Central Austin buys you proximity and established character: smaller lots, older housing stock, walkability, and a short commute, at a higher price per square foot. The suburbs buy you square footage, newer construction, and often a different school district, at the cost of a longer drive. Central Austin inventory is also tighter, because the land is already built out, so well-priced homes there tend to move faster.

Waterfront due diligence is a different exercise from a standard home purchase. Verify where the property line actually ends relative to the shoreline, whether the dock is permitted and transferable, the historic water level range for that specific lake, LCRA or governing authority rules, septic condition, and flood zone designation. Lake Austin is constant-level while Lake Travis fluctuates substantially, and that single difference changes what you own.

Yes. SR Group works across the full range of the Austin and Central Texas market, including first-time buyers. Several agents on the team specialise in first-time and move-up buyers. The team holds the CLHMS luxury designation and sells waterfront estates, but that is one part of the practice rather than a floor on who it represents.

They are properties shared through private agent networks before, or instead of, public listing portals. SR Group accesses them through Compass private exclusives and affiliations including the Austin Luxury Network and Clubhouse. One honest limit is worth knowing: under the NAR Clear Cooperation Policy, once a listing is publicly marketed in any form, the listing broker has one business day to submit it to the MLS. So a genuinely off-market property is one that has not been publicly marketed at all, and the window on a "coming soon" property is short by design.

Call the SR Group office at 512.993.4663 or Jeffrey Grant directly at 512.484.9146, or email info@srgcompass.com. The office is at 2500 Bee Caves Rd, Bldg 3, Ste 200, Austin, TX 78746.