{"id":348731,"date":"2026-06-24T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348731\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:24:09","slug":"home-sales-surge-in-houston-during-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348731\/","title":{"rendered":"Home sales surge in Houston during May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May brought a flurry of activity to the Houston market as new-home sales surged to 2,169, up from 1,958 the month prior, according to the latest data from <a href=\"https:\/\/homesusa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">HomesUSA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At 109 days, the time homes spent on the market dipped from 111 in April. Homes sold more quickly last May, when time spent on the market averaged around 96 days.<\/p>\n<p>Average new-home prices dipped slightly to $398,646, compared to $403,001 in April. Year-over-year, buyers paid more than they did in May 2025, when the average new-home price sat around $393,541.<\/p>\n<p>Pending sales remained flat month-over-month but fell yearly from 2,350 to 1,939.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, active listings hit 15,671, marking a slight increase from 15,652 in April and a larger jump from 14,271 in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay brought another encouraging increase in Houston new home sales, but the market is not where it was a year ago,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonagentmagazine.com\/2024\/05\/02\/ben-caballero-world-record-annual-home-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ben Caballero<\/a>, CEO of HomesUSA.com. \u201cHouston builders are seeing homes sell a little faster than they did in April, which is good news. But higher inventory, stubborn mortgage rates and mixed year-over-year comparisons show this spring market still requires patience, pricing discipline and close attention to buyer demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay sales could be the highest for the year if <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonagentmagazine.com\/2026\/06\/02\/cotality-us-home-price-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">interest rates<\/a> remain at the current level or higher,\u201d Caballero added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May brought a flurry of activity to the Houston market as new-home sales surged to 2,169, up from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[124386,124387,124388,124389,56,58,64829,57,33670,124390,72491,51001],"class_list":["post-348731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-active-listings","tag-agent-publishing","tag-current-market-data","tag-home-listings","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-home-sales","tag-houston-news","tag-new-home-sales","tag-pending-sales","tag-real-estate-news","tag-sc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348731","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=348731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}