North Texas (DFW) Housing Market Report: 92,639 Sales Across 186 Cities

Every home that sold across 186 Dallas–Fort Worth cities and towns from September 2025 to September 2026, turned into plain answers for first-time buyers and sellers. Median price $385,000 ($187/sqft), median 39 days on market, $45.88B total volume. Refreshed daily by Pax Realty.

On the market right now (as of 2026-09-21): 37,550 active listings, 11,190 under contract, 4.9 months of supply, median asking $424,900.

How buyers paid: Conventional 51.1%, FHA 20.8%, VA 8%, Cash 17.6%, Other 2.5%. 58.2% of sellers contributed toward buyer costs, typically $8,000. Median contract-to-close: 29 days.

Median rent across the same home types: $2,300/month (46,138 closed leases). Owning the median home runs about $2,190/month principal & interest with 10% down.

Five-year history (median sale price by quarter): 2022 Q1: $375,730 · 2023 Q1: $380,725 · 2024 Q1: $385,990 · 2025 Q1: $390,000 · 2026 Q1: $380,000 · 2026 Q3: $388,200.

From Ryan's videos: what is changing in North Texas towns, and what it does to home values

The civic stories Ryan Storch covers on Instagram (@ryanstorch), each with the facts verified for the video and the towns it touches.

US 380 is becoming a freeway, and the state is already buying the land.

US 380 · Collin County · September 2026

TxDOT picked the route, called the Blue Alternative: a new freeway that starts at 380 near Coit Road, wraps around the north side of McKinney, and ties back into 380 east of town near New Hope. The state has started buying land along that path, and businesses in the way have already closed. The bypass alone is priced at about $3.27 billion, and the full corridor plan runs closer to $8 billion. TxDOT says construction could start around 2027 if the funding lands, and the adopted plan is a freeway with frontage roads, not a toll road.

$3.27 billion for the bypass alone · 26 homes, 38 businesses sit in the path

What it means for your home: Homes in the path and homes near the new interchanges are about to live two very different stories. Before you buy or sell anywhere near 380, pull up TxDOT's Blue Alignment map and see which side of it you are on.

Towns: Prosper · McKinney · Frisco · Princeton · Watch on Instagram

Frisco ISD, once the fastest-growing district in Texas, just closed a school.

Frisco ISD · September 2026

Staley Middle School, one of the oldest campuses in Frisco, closed after last school year, and its students were rezoned across three other schools this fall. The district peaked at about 67,000 students, counted 62,755 last October, and its own projections show enrollment falling toward 58,000 within five years.

67,000 → 62,755 students, peak to last October · About 58,000 projected within five years

What it means for your home: The town grew up. The families who built Frisco stayed, and at a median sale price of $650,000 the young families who fill elementary schools have a hard time getting in the door. School zones move home values here more than almost anywhere, so know which zone you are in before you price your home or make an offer.

Towns: Frisco · Watch on Instagram

Lewisville ISD closed five elementary schools, and the kids did not leave.

Lewisville ISD · August 2026

The district had almost 54,000 students ten years ago. Today it is under 48,000 and expects to lose about 3,000 more, so the board closed Garden Ridge in Flower Mound, Highland Village Elementary, Owen, Creekside and Polser. These towns have never been wealthier, and the homes have never been worth more.

54,000 → under 48,000 students in ten years · 5 schools closed

What it means for your home: The kids did not move away, they never arrived. The families who raised kids here stayed after graduation, and young families cannot afford to move in behind them. That is why homes here hold their value so well, and why so few of them ever come up for sale.

Towns: Flower Mound · Highland Village · Lewisville · Watch on Instagram

Twenty minutes north, Northwest ISD cannot build schools fast enough.

Northwest ISD · the 35W corridor · August 2026

While Lewisville ISD was closing schools, Northwest ISD voters passed a $2 billion bond to make room for 8,400 more students. A new elementary opened in Haslet and a new middle school opened next to Pecan Square in Northlake this fall, and the district redrew its attendance boundaries, so thousands of kids started the year at a different school than last year.

$2 billion bond passed · 8,400 more student seats

What it means for your home: The 35W corridor is where DFW's next generation is actually growing up. If you are buying out here, the school you are zoned to can change, so check the newest boundary map, not the one from when the listing photos were taken.

Towns: Northlake · Haslet · Justin · Roanoke · Trophy Club · Watch on Instagram

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

A town boxed inside Flower Mound where homes quietly cost a million dollars.

Double Oak · August 2026

Double Oak has about 3,000 people, no shopping centers and no apartments, and one rule explains the price: lots are an acre. The typical sale last year was a 3,300 square foot home on a full acre, and only 43 homes traded all year. Some Flower Mound neighborhoods sell more than that by summer.

43 sales all year · 1 in 5 had to cut the price

What it means for your home: Sellers there hold the cards. Only about one in five cut their price all year, the lowest rate I track, and homes priced right sold for 99.8% of asking in 11 days. They are not making more acre lots ten minutes from everything.

Towns: Double Oak · Flower Mound · Bartonville · Copper Canyon · Watch on Instagram

Every city, one line each (median · $/sqft · days on market · % over asking · sales)

Source: NTREIS MLS, aggregate only (Texas is non-disclosure). Machine-readable dataset · Text Ryan Storch, Broker · (972) 974-1821 · ryan@paxrealtytx.com