Houston housing market: home prices, trends and forecast
Houston home prices: the Zillow Home Value Index valued a typical Houston, Texas home at $259,465 in September 2026, −2.1% compared with a year earlier and −5.7% under its $275,063 peak of May 2024.
- Value of a typical home
- $259,465September 2026, Zillow ZHVI
- Change over 12 months
- Down 2.1% since September 2025.
Houston home prices since 2000
In the chart, steel marks Houston and grey marks the United States. In January 2000 the typical Houston home was worth $103,578; it has since risen to $259,465, ×2.51, compared with ×2.99 for the US over those months. At the boom high, the value reached $132,099 in December 2007; the low was $114,600 in January 2012, −13.2%.
Yearly median home price for Houston
Each yearly figure averages the twelve monthly values; 2026 reflects the latest month.
| Year | Houston | Change on the year | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | $104,094 | $125,745 | |
| 2001 | $106,149 | +2.0% | $134,899 |
| 2002 | $109,366 | +3.0% | $144,276 |
| 2003 | $113,057 | +3.4% | $155,308 |
| 2004 | $119,579 | +5.8% | $169,891 |
| 2005 | $125,580 | +5.0% | $189,732 |
| 2006 | $127,299 | +1.4% | $206,531 |
| 2007 | $130,763 | +2.7% | $208,449 |
| 2008 | $128,984 | −1.4% | $195,574 |
| 2009 | $124,480 | −3.5% | $177,542 |
| 2010 | $123,279 | −1.0% | $171,462 |
| 2011 | $117,187 | −4.9% | $162,508 |
| 2012 | $115,581 | −1.4% | $161,137 |
| 2013 | $122,764 | +6.2% | $171,420 |
| 2014 | $138,792 | +13.1% | $182,996 |
| 2015 | $155,401 | +12.0% | $192,738 |
| 2016 | $166,746 | +7.3% | $204,509 |
| 2017 | $174,926 | +4.9% | $216,767 |
| 2018 | $183,452 | +4.9% | $230,541 |
| 2019 | $193,115 | +5.3% | $242,088 |
| 2020 | $201,726 | +4.5% | $257,151 |
| 2021 | $227,230 | +12.6% | $295,959 |
| 2022 | $264,664 | +16.5% | $340,014 |
| 2023 | $270,283 | +2.1% | $348,160 |
| 2024 | $273,547 | +1.2% | $359,751 |
| 2025 | $267,536 | −2.2% | $362,959 |
| September 2026 | $259,465 | −2.1% | $366,157 |
What homes bought in Houston in any year are worth now
An index-based estimate of a typical home, not an appraisal.
Each year's figure averages twelve monthly index values, and the current figure is the one for September 2026. Also available: home appreciation calculator.
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Houston housing market forecast
Zillow's forecast has the Houston, TX metro at +0.3% across the 12 months starting September 2026, with 0% for the next three months. Take Houston's typical value of $259,465 and apply the forecast, and you land at about $260,200 one year later.
Here the forecast repeats Zillow's central estimate for the metro, and the site publishes none of its own. Forecasts like this one, over 12 months, have typically been off by several percentage points against the realised change, in both directions. This is not investment advice.
All metro forecasts in a single table: housing market forecast table.
Houston housing market crash risk score
47 of 100, on the high side
The ranking puts Houston against the 292 cities using five conditions that ran high ahead of earlier price falls. The five inputs each get a score from 0 to 100 compared with the other cities, and those scores are averaged with equal weight. It shows conditions today; it does not predict a crash.
| Input | Value | Sub-score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active listings vs 2019 | +19.9% | 71 | 20% |
| Days on the market vs 2019 | −5.2% | 28 | 20% |
| Price-to-rent ratio | 14.0 | 18 | 20% |
| Price-to-income ratio | 4.0 | 27 | 20% |
| 12-month price change | −2.1% | 90 | 20% |
No investment advice is given here. How the inputs are scored: scoring method. Every one of the 292 cities ranked: crash risk ranking.
Houston inventory and days on market
As of September 2026 the Houston, TX metro listed 35,898 homes for sale. That was +5.3% above the previous year and +19.9% higher than in the same month of 2019. The median time to sell was 55 days (−5.2% against 2019), while a price cut was recorded for 20.2% of listings.
| Houston, TX metro, September 2026 | Value | On a year |
|---|---|---|
| Active listings | 35,898 | +5.3% |
| New listings | 9,000 | |
| Median days on market | 55 | −0.9% |
| Median list price | $353,995 | −1.7% |
| Share with a price cut | 20.2% |
Metro inventory figures: Realtor.com® Economic Research. Realtor.com data All metros: days on market by city.
Houston cost of living
By the Zillow Observed Rent Index, the typical asking rent in Houston runs $1,544 a month, which is −0.1% on a year. The price of the typical home equals 14.0 years of that rent. Median household income comes to $64,361 (Census ACS 2024), which puts the typical home at 4.0 times a year's income. According to BEA, prices in the metro sit at 98.6, while the US average is 100; housing costs there come to 104.5.
The salary you need to move there, plus rent and prices: Houston cost of living.
Other Texas housing markets
- $244,623 in San Antonio.
- $303,442 in Dallas.
- Fort Worth $292,949
- $491,960 in Austin.
- $237,556 in El Paso.
- Arlington, Texas $306,472
- Corpus Christi $222,115
- $497,714 in Plano.
- $210,957 in Lubbock.
- $219,517 in Laredo.
Texas as a whole: Texas housing market.
How to read this chart
Each point plots the Zillow Home Value Index for Houston: what a typical home in the market's middle third is worth, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, in that month's dollars. The hollow dot shows the month chosen on the slider, while the terracotta dot shows the latest month. An index tracks the typical home, not any one house, and these figures carry no inflation adjustment: find the value of a single home from its own sale price, using the sale-price card, or the home appreciation calculator.