{"id":653033,"date":"2026-03-13T16:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/653033\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:13:15","slug":"har-houston-housing-market-gains-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/653033\/","title":{"rendered":"HAR: Houston housing market gains momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More homes for sale and easing prices meant the Houston housing market gained momentum in February despite decreasing home sales, the latest Housing Market Update from the <a href=\"http:\/\/har.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Houston Association of REALTORS\u00ae<\/a> shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/har-sf-home-sales.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1306533\" class=\" wp-image-1306533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/har-sf-home-sales.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"313\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1306533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Closed single-family home sales dipped 2.2% year over year in February (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.har.com\/content\/department\/newsroom?pid=2222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">HAR<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Closed home sales dipped 2.2% year over year, with 5,918 single-family homes sold during the month. Pending sales, however, increased 13% year over year, with 7,894 listings going under contract \u2014 signaling strong sales in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Houston market continues to show signs of balance,\u201d said HAR Chair Theresa Hill. \u201cBuyer interest remains strong, and the increase in showings and pending sales tells us the spring market is already beginning to take shape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/houstonagentmagazine.com\/2026\/02\/05\/har-houston-affordability-q4-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Affordability<\/a> improved for buyers in February: While the average home price increased 2% year over year to $415,091, the median declined 0.9% to $322,078. The typical 30-year mortgage rate fell to the lowest level in over 40 months, making monthly mortgage payments about $149 cheaper than in February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Days on market hit 69 days, marking the highest level since March 2013, when the typical home sold in 74 days.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, total active listings climbed 14.3% year over year to 55,710. Given the rate of sales, Houston had a 4.8-month inventory, up from 4.3 months a year prior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are waiting for the Houston housing market to bottom, it already did several years ago and is back to normal levels,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonagentmagazine.com\/2025\/12\/01\/houston-returns-pre-pandemic-norms-while-us-housing-market-struggles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">HAR Chief Economist Ted Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Existing-home sales<\/p>\n<p>Among only existing single-family homes, sales actually increased 5% year over year, with 4,019 homes sold. The average price increased 0.6% to $421,772 while the median decreased 1.5% to $320,000.<\/p>\n<p>Townhomes and condos<\/p>\n<p>Sales of townhomes and condos declined 7.4% year over year in February, with buyers purchasing 299 units during the month. The median price declined 3.4% to $240,500, while the average fell 3.5% to $276,835.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More homes for sale and easing prices meant the Houston housing market gained momentum in February despite decreasing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":653034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[39750,4345,31393,277026,147683,17506,235129,358,235130,3187],"class_list":["post-653033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-har","tag-houston","tag-houston-association-of-realtors","tag-houston-home-sales","tag-houston-real-estate","tag-sc","tag-ted-jones","tag-texas","tag-theresa-hill","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116222755191076054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}