Married couples made up the largest share of buyers at 68%, followed by single women at 18% and single men at 7%. Senior housing accounted for 7% of purchases, while 14% of homes were bought for multigenerational families.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Wauhob, chairman of Texas Realtors, said the figures reflect a divide between those who entered the market during the pandemic and those who did not.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday\u2019s first-time buyers were not in the housing market during the pandemic years of low mortgage rates and quick home value increases, which may leave some of them feeling a step behind,\u201d Wauhob said. \u201cMeanwhile, homeowners who built up some equity may be able to sell and make a substantial down payment<\/a> on another home.\u201d<\/p>\n Cash sales hit a record<\/p>\n The share of all-cash home purchases reached a record high of 30% in 2025, more than double the 14% recorded in 2017, the report said. Among those who used financing, 63% opted for fixed-rate mortgages, with conventional loans making up 56% of that group.<\/p>\n Most buyers (79%) said they believe homeownership remains a sound long-term financial investment, and 35% said it outperforms stocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Married couples made up the largest share of buyers at 68%, followed by single women at 18% and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[89792,94109,27,29,28,50941],"class_list":["post-247537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-first-time-homebuyers","tag-home-purchases","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-realtors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247537","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=247537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}