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"Comparing Texas housing markets: Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio trends"

Housingwire writes, "Austin’s housing market showed the sharpest shift toward buyers among Texas’ major metros, with 53.4% of active listings taking price cuts as of Nov. 1, 2025. The Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos metro’s median list price dropped to $499,000 from $525,231 a year earlier, marking a $26,231 decline.

The divergence across the Texas Triangle metros reveals how even neighboring markets can experience different conditions. The Texas Triangle—a megaregion formed by Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin that houses the vast majority of Texans—shows varying market dynamics despite geographic proximity. While Austin and San Antonio moved into buyer-favorable territory, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston maintained neutral conditions…

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"Austin market relies on price cuts as homes sit longer"

Housingwire writes, "The Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos metro housing market shows a striking disconnect between aggressive price reductions and selling pace, with 53.43% of active listings taking price cuts while homes still require 84 days to sell, according to the latest market data.

This paradox positions Austin as an outlier in both Texas and national markets. Despite more than half of sellers reducing prices, the metro’s median days on market exceeds the national average of 77 days, though it moves faster than the Texas state median of 91 days.

Inventory builds as buyer conditions strengthen

Austin’s housing inventory reached 11,429 active single-family homes as of Nov. 1, 2025, representing 3.67 months of supply. The market absorbed 780…

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"The Tech Hub Emerging as America’s Most Affordable Market for Renters"

Realtor.com reports, "while aspiring homeowners are facing economic headwinds, rents are becoming increasingly affordable nationwide, with Western and Southern metros leading the way. However, one metro stands out from the rest.

In September, Austin, TX, the COVID-19 pandemic-era boomtown and technology hub, overtook Oklahoma City, OK, as the nation's most affordable rental market.

A family earning a typical household income looking to rent in Austin would spend just 16.5% of their monthly paycheck on housing, down 2.8 percentage points from a year ago, according to the September monthly rent report from Realtor.com®.

"Austin's rising housing affordability is primarily driven by declining rents," says Realtor.com economist Jiayi Xu. "The…

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"From Bidding Wars to Bargains—How Austin’s Housing Market Became a Buyer’s Market"

Realtor.com writes, "Austin, TX, once the poster child of America’s pandemic housing boom, has flipped into a buyer’s market.

After years of surging demand and record-setting prices fueled by remote workers and tech transplants, the tide has turned. Listings are piling up, prices have retreated from their peak, and affordability—long a sore point in the city—is starting to improve.

Nationally, the housing market has reached a balance of five months of supply—the first summer to do so since Realtor.com® began tracking this data nine years ago, according to the August 2025 Monthly Housing Market Trends report.

While local dynamics vary across the country, Austin’s trajectory underscores a broader theme in real estate: the pendulum swing between…

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"7 Major Cities Are Now Buyer’s Markets—but Delistings Continue To Rise"

Realtor.com writes,"Summer ended with a standoff between reluctant buyers and frustrated sellers—but this fall, house hunters can be a bit more optimistic as seven of the 50 biggest metros become buyer's markets.

The national housing market reached a balance of five months of supply—the first summer to do so since Realtor.com® began tracking this data nine years ago, according to the August 2025 Monthly Housing Market Trends report.

What does that mean in simple terms? The months of supply metric represents how many months it would take for all the for-sale homes on the market (including pending listings) to be sold at the current sales pace. 

The higher the months of supply, the slower the market—and the more negotiating power buyers have. 

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"Homebuyers are gaining leverage — but the minimum income to buy is surging"

Austin Business Journal writes, "Americans now need to earn $114,000 per year to afford a median priced home.

That's an increase of 70.1% above the $67,000 required to afford that same mid-range home in 2019, according to data from Realtor.com. It's an increase driven by sky-high appreciation, persistent supply constraints and stubbornly high interest rates, among other factors — and the dynamic continues to weigh heavily on the housing market, even as buyers gain leverage.

The data looked at median home prices each April for the past six years.

“Even with today’s affordability hurdles, meaningful changes in the market could give buyers a better shot at finding a home,” said Danielle Hale, chief economist at Realtor.com. “The number of homes…

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"Analysis quantifies impact on rents when apartment supply increases"

Austin Business Journal shares, "Apartment rents typically drop when new units are added to a market's housing supply, but a new analysis quantifies by how much.

The study by the Pew Charitable Trusts on rent changes in major U.S. cities from 2017 to 2024 determined that for every 10% increase in a ZIP code’s housing supply, rent growth was 1.4% less compared to a ZIP code that had no additional housing supply. The Pew analysis also found that a 10% increase in a market's housing supply correlated to rents growing 5% less from 2017 to 2024.

In Austin, which has undergone an apartment building boom in recent years, the biggest rent declines were for older and lower-quality units, the study found.

Alex Horowitz, project director of housing…

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"The National Observer: Real Estate: National housing market continues shift to buyers"

Austin Business Journal writes, "The housing market has seen a decent amount of shifting this year amid broader economic uncertainty and an uptick in inventory.

While new listings and home construction are welcome news in a market that's been starved of inventory for years, there are still a lot of challenges for both buyers and sellers.

The national median profit margin on home sales fell to 50% in the first quarter of this year — down 3.2 percentage points from the fourth quarter of 2024 and down 4.8 points from the first quarter of 2024, reports The Business Journals' Joanne Drilling. It's also down from 64% in 2022.

As I get into in today's lead story, the changing housing market has had some sellers rethink how much they list their homes…

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"Austin Home Prices Down in June"

Realtor.com reports, "In June, home prices fell substantially from the month before, with a median listing price of $617,500.

The number of listings on the market grew 5.0%, which is a smaller increase than normal for this time of the year in Austin, and homes are also selling slower than at the same time last year.

Home prices in Austin

Typically, home price per square foot in Austin tend to rise in June. But the most recent data shows that the price per square foot decreased by 3.3% compared with the month before.

So, how does this compare with the rest of the U.S.? Nationally, home price per square foot decreased 0.4%, which means price changes in the Live Music Capital of the World are lagging behind the national market.

Austin…

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"Austin homebuyers gaining negotiating power"

Austin Business Journal writes, "Homebuyers in the Austin area are gaining the advantage as competition heats up among sellers.

The metro's housing inventory continues to hover around the six-month mark and new listings have increased 43.6% year-over-year to 17,662 active home listings, according to Unlock MLS’s latest market report. However, the median sale price of a home in Austin in June was flat at $450,000 compared to the same time last year.

“We’re not 100% in a buyer’s market, but we’re pretty close,” said Brandy Wuensch, 2025 Unlock MLS and Austin Board of Realtors president. “Buyers definitely have more power to negotiate and get a lot more favorable terms from sellers in terms of closing costs.”

Sellers are having to become more…

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