Looking to sell your home? You might have a harder time of it if you’re trying to sell in South Texas.

According to a new study by LADU, a Los Angeles, California-based company that custom-builds accessory dwelling units, Texas is one of the toughest states in the country to try to sell a home. Homes in the Lone Star State have the unenviable distinction of lingering on the market for weeks before buyers finally snatch them up. Overall, metros in South Texas rank among the toughest-to-sell markets, but one surprising city bested not only them but the rest of the nation: Huntsville.

“Hunstville, Texas, is the hardest metro area in the country to sell your home, with homes on the market seeing an average of 86.46 days for an offer to be accepted from the day that it was first listed, the highest of any US metro area,” LADU officials said in a news release on Wednesday, April 1.

But home sellers in Laredo, McAllen and Brownsville won’t fare much better as the housing market appears to be entering a slump. On average, homes in the three South Texas metro areas stay on the market for over a month after that “for sale” sign gets staked into a lawn. Homes in Laredo linger on the market for about 73 days, about 70 days for McAllen, and just over 62 days in Brownsville. Overall, Texas is the third-toughest market in the country for home sellers, LADU reports.

In all, seven cities in Texas landed on LADU’s top 50 ranking of tough-to-sell housing markets. They are: Huntsville (1), Laredo (7), McAllen (12), Austin (14), Brownsville (26), Texarkana (29) and Beaumont (50).

In order to come up with its ranking, LADU analyzed data from Zillow, the largest real estate site in the country. LADU looked at housing data that Zillow compiled from 2018 to 2026 regarding the average, or “mean” number of days before a for-sale home reaches the “pending” stage in the sales process.

Zillow’s data shows that the housing market is slowing down nationwide. As of January, the national average interval of time for a home to go under contract was 47 days. That’s three times longer than homes typically stayed on the market last March (15 days on average then), Zillow data show. LADU’s new analysis shows that in Texas’ largest metros, homes linger on sale for twice as long in an already sluggish property market.