{"id":794175,"date":"2026-05-13T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/794175\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:02:10","slug":"har-spring-housing-market-shows-new-energy-in-greater-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/794175\/","title":{"rendered":"HAR: Spring housing market shows new energy in greater Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spring buying and selling season injected a healthy dose of energy into the Houston housing market, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.har.com\/content\/department\/mls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Houston Association of REALTORS\u00ae<\/a> said in its latest Housing Market Update.<\/p>\n<p>Single-family home sales increased 4.4% year over year in April, with 8,196 homes sold. Pending sales also increased 9.4%. Meanwhile, the average home price decreased 1.4% to $428,709 while the median decreased 1.6% to $332,000.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding inventory allowed buyers to relax during the month, HAR said. Active listings increased 6.5% year over year, with 36,572 homes on the market. Homes spent about 60 days on the market, up from 55 days a year prior.<\/p>\n<p>Given the rate of sales, Houston had a 4.9-month inventory, up 0.1 months from April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore inventory is giving buyers room to breathe again,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonagentmagazine.com\/2026\/02\/02\/theresa-hill-houstons-housing-story\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HAR Chair Theresa Hill<\/a>. \u201cHomes are still moving, but consumers have more time to make decisions and more leverage during negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Affordability improved for Houstonians in April, with typical mortgage payments decreasing by about $100 per month compared to a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Existing single-family home sales<\/p>\n<p>Looking at just existing-home sales (excluding <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonagentmagazine.com\/2026\/03\/23\/how-new-construction-will-adapt-to-address-the-housing-supply-shortage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new construction<\/a>), Houston home sales increased 4.6% year over year with 5,739 closings. The average price decreased 1.3% to $443,933 while the median was statistically unchanged at $335,000.<\/p>\n<p>Townhome and condominium sales<\/p>\n<p>Among for-sale townhomes and condos, closings were flat year over year at 450 units. The median price increased 7% to $230,000 while the average declined 2% to $263,100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The spring buying and selling season injected a healthy dose of energy into the Houston housing market, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":794176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[103784,39750,4345,31393,277026,147683,324094,17506,358,235130,3187],"class_list":["post-794175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-existing-home-sales","tag-har","tag-houston","tag-houston-association-of-realtors","tag-houston-home-sales","tag-houston-real-estate","tag-houston-single-family-home-sales","tag-sc","tag-texas","tag-theresa-hill","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116569056613270395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794175","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=794175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}