{"id":120487,"date":"2026-01-12T22:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120487\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:45:06","slug":"sabor-sa-home-buying-picks-up-steam-despite-slower-turnover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120487\/","title":{"rendered":"SABOR: SA home buying picks up steam despite slower turnover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new luxury real estate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasrealestate.com\/about-us\/newsroom\/news-releases\/more-homes-in-texas-sold-for-1-million-than-ever-before\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report<\/a> reveals Texas broke a record for the highest number of million-dollar homes sold from November 2024 to October 2025, and the San Antonio-New Braunfels metro crossed the $1 billion mark with its own luxury home sales.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 14,418 Texas homes were sold for at least $1 million last year, generating a record-breaking $24.5 billion, according to  Texas Realtors&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasrealestate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025_Sales_of_Million_Dollar_Homes_in_Texas_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2025 Texas Sales of Million-Dollar Homes Report<\/a>. The number of luxury home sales in the state soared 12 percent compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Million-dollar home sales in the San Antonio metro made up 5 percent of all luxury home sale transactions in Texas during the 12-month period, the report found. The total sales dollar volume of San Antonio-area homes that sold for $1 million or more added up to about $1.1 billion last year, or about <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonio.culturemap.com\/news\/real-estate\/texas-million-dollar-home-sales\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">$94.2 million more<\/a> than it did during the previous period from November 2023 to October 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 736 million-dollar homes were sold in the San Antonio region at an average price of $352 per square foot. For comparison, the average price per square foot for all residential homes in the metro was $173.<\/p>\n<p>Both figures are lower than the statewide average, according to Texas Realtors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The average price per square foot of $1 million+ homes increased to $423 from $418 last year and was more than double the $188 average price per square foot of all Texas homes,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the median closing price for a luxury home in San Antonio added up to just over $1.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>High-end homes in San Antonio are also more than twice the size of the typical residential home in the metro. A million-dollar home in San Antonio-New Braunfels spanned 4,166 square feet, compared to 1,930 median square feet for all residential homes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;High-end homes continue to be a small but mighty segment of the market,&#8221; said Texas Realtors chairman Jennifer Wauhob in a press release. &#8220;Texans remain confident in the value of these properties, whether they are drawn to outstanding amenities, prime locations, or both.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth Arlington saw the No. 1 highest share of million-dollar home sales in Texas, at 38 percent, followed by Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands (27 percent), Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos (19 percent), and the rest of Texas (11 percent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new luxury real estate report reveals Texas broke a record for the highest number of million-dollar homes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1539,1538,111,360,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-120487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-home-market","tag-home-sales","tag-real-estate","tag-sabor","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}