{"id":362877,"date":"2026-07-06T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362877\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:43:07","slug":"texas-housing-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362877\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas housing outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEXAS \u2014 It’s\u00a0one of the housing\u00a0market’s\u00a0busiest seasons,\u00a0with late spring and early summer making up\u00a0roughly 30%\u00a0of\u00a0the state\u2019s\u00a0annual home\u00a0sales, according to the Texas A&M Real Estate Research Center.\u00a0Data shows some areas are seeing more listings than in previous years.<\/p>\n

Austin and Dallas realtor Chad\u00a0Goldwasser\u00a0has\u00a0worked in Texas\u00a0real estate\u00a0for decades. Right\u00a0now, he says Austin\u00a0is at the highest\u00a0inventory\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0ever seen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m seeing right now 17,724 homes on the market right now in Austin,\u201d Goldwasser said. \u201cThere are still 4,910 pending sales and over 9,000 sales in the past\u00a090 days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other Texas cities are also seeing an increase in the number of homes for sale, according to data from the Texas A&M Real Estate Research Center<\/a>. Statewide inventory is up 7.2%. Regionally, San Antonio saw the biggest increase in inventory at 10%, followed by Houston at 9.8%, then Austin at 7.3% and Dallas-Fort Worth with 3.4%.<\/p>\n

Research economist\u00a0at the Texas A&M Real Estate Research Center,\u00a0Yanling\u00a0Mayer,\u00a0explains that while sellers are still actively\u00a0participating\u00a0in the market, more inventory means more choices for buyers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a good opportunity given the abundance of inventory and steep price cuts going on,\u201d explains Mayer.<\/p>\n

While affordability\u00a0remains\u00a0a challenge due\u00a0to\u00a0mortgage rates\u00a0hovering above\u00a06%,\u00a0overall home prices are slightly lower than in 2025.<\/p>\n

Texas\u00a0A&M’s\u00a0report reveals the median sale for a home in March 2026 was priced at\u00a0$332,000, compared to\u00a0$340,000 just last year. Mayer\u00a0says another thing going for buyers is the gap between new builds and existing homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore the pandemic, the average price difference between a new build and a resale home stood at about $100,000,\u201d says Mayer. \u201cNow it’s just above $15,000.\u201d She explains that this makes\u00a0new builds more attainable, especially for first-time homebuyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 It’s\u00a0one of the housing\u00a0market’s\u00a0busiest seasons,\u00a0with late spring and early summer making up\u00a0roughly 30%\u00a0of\u00a0the state\u2019s\u00a0annual home\u00a0sales, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5175,13732,132,134,133,102,3222,223,82,27,835],"class_list":["post-362877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-abigail-vaerewyck","tag-app-housing","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-dallas","tag-housing","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362877","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=362877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}