{"id":264687,"date":"2026-04-24T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264687\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:09:07","slug":"sellers-increase-in-houston-as-buyers-pull-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264687\/","title":{"rendered":"Sellers increase in Houston as buyers pull back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Home sales declined in half of Texas metros during the first quarter of the year and increased in the other half, according to the 2026 Q1 Texas Quarterly Housing Report from Texas REALTORS\u00ae<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The statewide median home price declined 0.8% to $328,000. Furthermore, the metros with the most sales \u2014 Dallas<\/a>, Houston and San Antonio \u2014 all saw annual decreases.<\/p>\n

Houston sales decreased 1.4% year over year, with buyers closing on 18,371 homes in the first quarter, while the median price fell to $325,000, down 1.5% year over year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the early 2020s, we went from steady price appreciation statewide to something more dramatic, and there was an outsized effect in the largest metros,\u201d said Jennifer Wauhob<\/a>, chairman of Texas REALTORS\u00ae. \u201cBut the changes were never uniform. The real estate market can look very different depending on the city or even the neighborhood you\u2019re standing in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The typical Texas home stayed on the market for 80 days, six days longer than the first quarter of 2025. Days on market increased in 19 of Texas\u2019 26 metro areas, including Houston, where the typical home sold in 99 days (66 for sale plus 33 days to close), up five days from the first quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n

More sellers joined the market statewide, with Texas\u2019 active listings increasing 7.4%. The previous three quarters saw annual jumps of 30% or more, Texas REALTORS\u00ae noted.<\/p>\n

Houston\u2019s active listings, meanwhile, increased 9.2%, with 35,511 properties on the market. Given the rate of sales, the metro had a 4.8-month inventory, up from 4.5 months a year prior.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost places in Texas have more homes for sale than in the recent past, but even that isn\u2019t universal,\u201d Wauhob said. \u201cIt\u2019s important for buyers and sellers to consider their goals in the context of what\u2019s happening in their micro-market.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home sales declined in half of Texas metros during the first quarter of the year and increased in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,50989,51456,51001,44995,50941],"class_list":["post-264687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-real-estate","tag-jennifer-wauhob","tag-sc","tag-texas-real-estate","tag-texas-realtors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264687","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=264687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}