Celina, TX Housing Market: 1,750 Homes Sold (September 2025 to September 2026)
Buyers hold the cards: most homes sell under asking and take about 69 days to find a buyer.
Celina market at a glance
- Homes sold (12 months): 1,750
- Median sale price: $514,995 (about $2,930/month with 10% down at a 6.5% 30-year rate, principal & interest)
- Median price per square foot: $187
- Median days on market (list to contract): 69; 8.9% went under contract within a week
- Sold over asking: 6.5% · Sold under asking: 78.8%
- Typical home: 4 bed, 2,846 sqft, built 2025, mostly Celina ISD
- Price range of sales: $5,999 – $4,999,999
- On the market right now: 1,113 active listings, 181 under contract, 7.6 months of supply, median asking $547,990
- How buyers paid: Conventional 67.7%, FHA 13.8%, VA 5.7%, Cash 10.8%, Other 2%
- Seller contributions: 69.1% of sellers chipped in, typically $13,010
- Contract to close: about 31 days
- Median rent (same home types, 767 closed leases): $2,650/month. Owning the median home runs about $2,930/month principal & interest with 10% down
- HOA: 96.7% of sales had a mandatory HOA, typically $91/month
- New construction: 69% of sales, median $499,000 vs $550,000 resale
What's happening in Celina, and what it does to home values
The stories Ryan Storch has been covering on Instagram that touch Celina, with the facts he verified for each video.
Highland Village is not full because everyone wants in. It is full because nobody leaves.
Highland Village · September 2026
I pulled the county property records on every home in Highland Village. There are about 4,700 houses, and 1,454 of them are owned by someone 65 or older, almost one in three. Last year only 192 homes changed hands, about one in every 24. Up in Celina it was closer to one in nine.
1 in 3 homes owned by someone 65 or older · 192 sales all year, 1 in 24 homes
What it means for your home: It was never a demand problem, it is a turnover problem. When a home does come up for sale here it has very little competition, which is why a priced-right home moves fast and why a patient buyer needs to be ready the day one appears.
Towns: Highland Village · Flower Mound · Celina · Watch on Instagram
Five-year price history in Celina
Median sale price by quarter: 2022 Q1: $593,282 · 2023 Q1: $639,500 · 2024 Q1: $595,462 · 2025 Q1: $580,000 · 2026 Q1: $520,784 · 2026 Q4: $525,000.
Median price by elementary school zone
- Bobby Ray-Afton Martin: 501 sales, median $445,000, $180/sqft
- Marcy Lykins: 269 sales, median $439,990, $171/sqft
- O'Dell: 219 sales, median $499,990, $182/sqft
- Margie Moore Vasquez: 148 sales, median $531,072, $184/sqft
- Sam Johnson: 95 sales, median $990,497, $259/sqft
- Dan Christie: 94 sales, median $507,495, $172/sqft
- Light Farms: 89 sales, median $605,000, $218/sqft
- Tommie Dobie Bothwell: 89 sales, median $571,000, $205/sqft
- Virgie Witt Smothermon: 88 sales, median $635,940, $196/sqft
- Lilyana: 49 sales, median $583,000, $193/sqft
- Joyce Hall: 23 sales, median $615,484, $212/sqft
- Ralph and Mary Lynn Boyer: 13 sales, median $829,000, $219/sqft
Pricing right vs. cutting the price in Celina
Sellers who held their original asking price sold in 22 days at 98.1% of ask. Sellers who overpriced and later cut took 99 days and kept 87% of the original ask, roughly $64,900 left on the table on a typical Celina listing.
Most active Celina neighborhoods
- Legacy Hills: 101 sales, median $349,000, 33 days on market
- Mosaic: 73 sales, median $660,000, 104 days on market
- North Sky: 72 sales, median $566,000, 94 days on market
- Cross Creek Meadows: 72 sales, median $512,500, 87 days on market
- Lilybrooke Legacy Hills: 68 sales, median $382,835, 25 days on market
- Sutton Fields: 55 sales, median $513,000, 93 days on market
- Cambridge Crossing: 55 sales, median $628,150, 132 days on market
- Lilyana: 48 sales, median $581,500, 78 days on market
- Chalk Hill: 47 sales, median $355,000, 33 days on market
- Mustang Lakes: 43 sales, median $1,025,000, 84 days on market
Nearby markets
McKinney · Plano · Princeton · Allen · Anna · Wylie · Prosper · Lavon
Common questions
Is now a good time to buy in Celina? Buyers hold the cards: most homes sell under asking and take about 69 days to find a buyer.
What does the typical Celina home cost? $514,995, about $187 per square foot, or roughly $2,930/month with 10% down before taxes and insurance.
How fast do homes sell in Celina? The typical home went under contract in 69 days; 8.9% sold within the first week.
Is it cheaper to rent or buy in Celina? The median Celina lease ran $2,650/month this year, while principal and interest on the median $514,995 home is roughly $2,930/month with 10% down, before taxes and insurance.
Source: NTREIS MLS closed sales, September 5 2025 to September 5 2026. Aggregate data only; Texas is a non-disclosure state. Compiled by Pax Realty (Ryan Storch, Broker). Explore all 186 cities · Full dataset · Text Ryan · Call/text (972) 974-1821.