Austin housing market: home prices, trends and forecast
Austin home prices: the Zillow Home Value Index put a typical home in Austin, Texas at $491,960 in September 2026, −3.2% versus a year earlier and −26.7% under the peak of $671,264 reached in June 2022.
- Value of the typical home
- $491,960September 2026, Zillow ZHVI
- Change over 12 months
- A change of −3.2% since September 2025.
Austin home prices since 2000
Austin is the steel line; the grey line is the United States. Over the months since January 2000 the typical Austin home moved from $195,573 to $491,960, ×2.52, while the US rose ×2.99. The boom peaked in May 2008 at $238,427; the low came in December 2011 at $218,635, −8.3%.
Austin median home price by year
The yearly figure averages the twelve monthly values, and for 2026 only the latest month is shown.
| Year | Austin | Change on the year | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | $199,545 | $125,745 | |
| 2001 | $205,914 | +3.2% | $134,899 |
| 2002 | $205,197 | −0.3% | $144,276 |
| 2003 | $204,551 | −0.3% | $155,308 |
| 2004 | $208,154 | +1.8% | $169,891 |
| 2005 | $214,935 | +3.3% | $189,732 |
| 2006 | $221,128 | +2.9% | $206,531 |
| 2007 | $231,370 | +4.6% | $208,449 |
| 2008 | $236,690 | +2.3% | $195,574 |
| 2009 | $227,938 | −3.7% | $177,542 |
| 2010 | $225,623 | −1.0% | $171,462 |
| 2011 | $219,468 | −2.7% | $162,508 |
| 2012 | $225,631 | +2.8% | $161,137 |
| 2013 | $252,283 | +11.8% | $171,420 |
| 2014 | $284,471 | +12.8% | $182,996 |
| 2015 | $316,039 | +11.1% | $192,738 |
| 2016 | $340,175 | +7.6% | $204,509 |
| 2017 | $356,708 | +4.9% | $216,767 |
| 2018 | $370,183 | +3.8% | $230,541 |
| 2019 | $384,515 | +3.9% | $242,088 |
| 2020 | $418,976 | +9.0% | $257,151 |
| 2021 | $540,193 | +28.9% | $295,959 |
| 2022 | $638,501 | +18.2% | $340,014 |
| 2023 | $578,161 | −9.5% | $348,160 |
| 2024 | $550,213 | −4.8% | $359,751 |
| 2025 | $517,522 | −5.9% | $362,959 |
| September 2026 | $491,960 | −3.2% | $366,157 |
What a home bought in Austin in any year is worth now
An estimate for a typical home based on the index, not an appraisal.
Each year's figure averages its twelve monthly index values; the current value is September 2026. Other options: home appreciation calculator.
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Austin housing market forecast
Zillow's forecast covers the Austin, TX metro at −2.4% over 12 months beginning September 2026, plus +0.1% over the next three months. Austin's typical value is $491,960, so Zillow's forecast points to about $480,200 a year on.
Here it is again, Zillow's central estimate for the metro; the site offers no forecast of its own. Forecasts covering 12 months, like this one, have typically missed the change that followed by several percentage points, in both directions. This is not investment advice.
All metro forecasts in one table: housing market forecast.
Austin housing market crash risk score
Very high: 87 of 100
Austin is ranked against the 292 cities using five conditions that ran high before earlier price falls. Every input is scored from 0 to 100 relative to the other cities, and the five scores are averaged with equal weight. It shows current conditions; it does not predict a crash.
| Input | Value | Sub-score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active listings vs 2019 | +58.2% | 93 | 20% |
| Days on the market vs 2019 | +45.5% | 95 | 20% |
| Price-to-rent ratio | 26.1 | 88 | 20% |
| Price-to-income ratio | 5.4 | 64 | 20% |
| 12-month price change | −3.2% | 96 | 20% |
This is not investment advice. Scoring of the inputs: methodology. Every one of the 292 cities, ranked: crash risk by city.
Homes for sale and time on the market in Austin
In September 2026 the Austin, TX metro counted 12,083 homes listed for sale, +1.5% against a year earlier and +58.2% against September 2019. Selling took a median of 80 days per listing (+45.5% against 2019), and a price cut appeared in 27.3% of listings.
| Austin, TX metro, September 2026 | Value | On a year |
|---|---|---|
| Active listings | 12,083 | +1.5% |
| New listings | 2,926 | |
| Median days on market | 80 | +1.3% |
| Median list price | $446,450 | −9.8% |
| Share with a price cut | 27.3% |
Metro inventory, from Realtor.com® Economic Research. Realtor.com data. All metros: days on market by city.
Living costs in Austin
In Austin, the Zillow Observed Rent Index puts the typical asking rent at $1,571 a month, +0.4% on a year. It takes 26.1 years of that rent to cover the cost of a typical home. At a median household income of $90,430 (Census ACS 2024), the typical home costs 5.4 times the yearly income. BEA's price index for the metro is 98.1, compared with a US average of 100, and its housing cost figure is 120.4.
Renting, prices, and the salary required to move there: Austin cost of living.
Other Texas housing markets
- $259,465. Houston
- $244,623. San Antonio
- $303,442. Dallas
- Fort Worth $292,949
- $237,556. El Paso
- Arlington, Texas $306,472
- Corpus Christi $222,115
- Plano housing market $497,714.
- Lubbock housing market $210,957.
- Laredo housing market $219,517.
For a look at the state overall: Texas housing market.
How to read this chart
Each point shows the Zillow Home Value Index for Austin: what a typical home in the market's middle third is worth, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, in that month's dollars. The hollow dot sits at the slider's month, while the terracotta one marks the most recent month. An index follows the typical home rather than one particular house, and the numbers are not adjusted for inflation: a single home's value comes from its own sale price, worked out either with the card above it or with the home appreciation calculator.