housing study<\/a> from SmartAsset analyzed home values across the 100 biggest metro areas using Zillow\u2019s Home Value Index tool for single-family homes, condos, and co-ops. Home value data was sourced for the month of February in 2021, 2025, and 2026.<\/p>\nThe top five U.S. cities with the biggest one-year home price reductions are Oakland, California (No. 1); Saint Petersburg (No. 2); Naples, Florida (No. 3); Austin (No. 4); and Plano (No. 5).<\/p>\n
The findings revealed housing prices in Fort Worth are now standing at $295,822, down from $305,236 last year. Meanwhile, prices have dipped 3.41 percent year-over-year in nearby Arlington, and typical home values are now at $307,792.<\/p>\n
SmartAsset said Fort Worth’s housing prices are still a whopping 25.3 percent higher than they were in 2021, and compared to pre-pandemic levels, they’re 44.5 percent more expensive.<\/p>\n
Here’s how much cheaper housing prices are in other North Texas cities:<\/p>\n
Dallas:<\/p>\n
One year change: -3.79 percentTypical home value in 2025: $317,550Typical home value in 2026: $305,523<\/p>\n
Plano:<\/p>\n
One year change: -5.10 percentTypical home value in 2025: $528,510Typical home value in 2026: $501,564<\/p>\n
Home prices elsewhere around the U.S. have seen varying changes, according to the report.<\/p>\n
“Between 2025 and 2026, the typical home value in large U.S. cities actually declined by 1.04 percent, with values dropping in 70 percent of cities,” the report’s author wrote. “But the full range of changes from market to market ran the gamut from -9.1 percent to +5.01 percent, putting both hopeful buyers and homeowners in starkly different environments across the nation.”<\/p>\n
The top three U.S. cities where home prices increased the most since 2025 are Toledo, Ohio (No. 2); Lincoln, Nebraska (No. 2); and San Francisco (No. 3).<\/p>\n
The 10 cities with the biggest one-year decreases in home values are:<\/p>\n
No. 1 \u2013 Oakland, CaliforniaNo. 2 \u2013 Saint Petersburg, FloridaNo. 3 \u2013 Naples, FloridaNo. 4 \u2013 AustinNo. 5 \u2013 PlanoNo. 6 \u2013 Aurora, ColoradoNo. 7 \u2013 DenverNo. 8 \u2013 AtlantaNo. 9 \u2013 Stockton, CaliforniaNo. 10 \u2013 Tampa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good news for potential Fort Worth homebuyers, but not so great for sellers: Housing prices in the DFW…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[150,102,116,118,117,6358,53939,160,111,542,38187],"class_list":["post-259838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-arlington","tag-dallas","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-housing-market","tag-housing-prices","tag-plano","tag-real-estate","tag-reports","tag-smartasset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259838","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=259838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}