Sugar Land housing market: home prices, trends and forecast
Sugar Land home prices: the Zillow Home Value Index, 0% year over year, put the typical Sugar Land, Texas home at $440,014 in September 2026, which was 1.4% below its $446,341 peak in January 2025.
- Value of a typical home
- $440,014September 2026, Zillow ZHVI
- Change over 12 months
- 0%. Change since September 2025.
Sugar Land home prices since 2000
Sugar Land is shown by the steel line; the United States by the grey line. Since January 2000 the typical home in Sugar Land has risen from $190,471 to $440,014, ×2.31, while the US gained ×2.99 over those months. The boom high was December 2007, at $234,735; the low came in December 2011, at $225,712, −3.8%.
Median home price for Sugar Land by year
Each yearly figure averages the twelve monthly values; the latest month is shown for 2026.
| Year | Sugar Land | Change on the year | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | $193,186 | $125,745 | |
| 2001 | $194,314 | +0.6% | $134,899 |
| 2002 | $197,539 | +1.7% | $144,276 |
| 2003 | $203,013 | +2.8% | $155,308 |
| 2004 | $210,270 | +3.6% | $169,891 |
| 2005 | $219,607 | +4.4% | $189,732 |
| 2006 | $223,452 | +1.8% | $206,531 |
| 2007 | $230,865 | +3.3% | $208,449 |
| 2008 | $233,577 | +1.2% | $195,574 |
| 2009 | $233,071 | −0.2% | $177,542 |
| 2010 | $236,498 | +1.5% | $171,462 |
| 2011 | $228,426 | −3.4% | $162,508 |
| 2012 | $228,668 | +0.1% | $161,137 |
| 2013 | $242,604 | +6.1% | $171,420 |
| 2014 | $269,332 | +11.0% | $182,996 |
| 2015 | $298,502 | +10.8% | $192,738 |
| 2016 | $306,821 | +2.8% | $204,509 |
| 2017 | $306,298 | −0.2% | $216,767 |
| 2018 | $309,496 | +1.0% | $230,541 |
| 2019 | $310,953 | +0.5% | $242,088 |
| 2020 | $314,771 | +1.2% | $257,151 |
| 2021 | $349,886 | +11.2% | $295,959 |
| 2022 | $410,647 | +17.4% | $340,014 |
| 2023 | $426,628 | +3.9% | $348,160 |
| 2024 | $442,132 | +3.6% | $359,751 |
| 2025 | $442,414 | +0.1% | $362,959 |
| September 2026 | $440,014 | 0% | $366,157 |
What a home bought in Sugar Land any year is worth today
An index-based estimate of a typical home, not an appraisal.
Each year's figure averages its twelve monthly index values; the current value comes from September 2026. Other options: home appreciation calculator.
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Sugar Land housing market forecast
For the Houston, TX metro, Zillow's forecast is +0.3% across the 12 months that start in September 2026, and 0% for the next three months. With Sugar Land's typical value at $440,014, the estimate would be close to $441,300 one year later.
Restated here, this is Zillow's central estimate for this metro; the site itself publishes no forecast of its own. Forecasts like this, over a 12-month span, have typically landed several percentage points away from the realised change, in either direction. This is not investment advice.
Every metro's housing market forecast sits in one table: housing market forecasts.
Sugar Land housing market crash risk score
A score of 46 out of 100, on the high side
Sugar Land is ranked against 292 cities using five conditions that ran high ahead of earlier price falls. Every input is scored from 0 to 100 by comparison with the other cities, and those five scores are averaged with equal weight. It shows conditions as they are now; it does not predict a crash.
| Input | Value | Sub-score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active listings vs 2019 | +19.9% | 71 | 20% |
| Time homes stay on the market vs 2019 | −5.2% | 28 | 20% |
| Price-to-rent ratio | 18.4 | 53 | 20% |
| Price-to-income ratio | 3.3 | 11 | 20% |
| 12-month price change | 0% | 65 | 20% |
This is not investment advice. Scoring of the inputs: methodology. Ranking of all 292 cities: crash risk by city.
Sugar Land inventory and days on market
In September 2026 the Houston, TX metro saw 35,898 homes for sale, up +5.3% from a year earlier and +19.9% versus the same month of 2019. The median time to sell a listing was 55 days (−5.2% against 2019), while 20.2% of listings came down in price.
| 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 from Realtor.com® Economic Research. Realtor.com data. All metros: days on market by city.
Rents and living costs in Sugar Land
The Zillow Observed Rent Index places Sugar Land's typical monthly asking rent at $1,997, 0.9% lower than a year earlier. One typical home is worth 18.4 years of that rent. Median household income stands at $133,466 (Census ACS 2024), which puts a typical home at 3.3 times a year's income. On BEA figures, metro prices sit at 98.6 versus a US average of 100, while housing costs stand at 104.5.
More housing markets in Texas
- Houston housing market $259,465.
- For San Antonio, $244,623.
- Dallas housing market $303,442.
- Fort Worth $292,949
- Austin housing market $491,960.
- For El Paso, $237,556.
- Arlington, Texas $306,472
- Corpus Christi $222,115
- Plano housing market $497,714.
- Lubbock housing market $210,957.
See the whole state: Texas housing market.
How to read this chart
In dollars of the month, each point gives a typical home's value, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, for a home in the middle third of the housing market. That series is the Zillow Home Value Index for Sugar Land. The hollow dot shows which month the slider sits on, while the terracotta dot shows the most recent month. These figures do not adjust for inflation, and an index tracks a typical home rather than one specific house. For a single home, enter its own sale price in the card above or in the home appreciation calculator to work out its value.