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Home prices across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex continued to fall over the past year even as more deals crossed the finish line.
The median sale price came in at $399,900 in the 13-county region, down about 1.7 percent year over year, according to a TRD Data analysis of on-market residential sales in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The analysis looked at MLS records, for sales valued $100,00 and above, from April 1, 2025 through April 1, 2026, as well as April 15, 2024 through April 15, 2025.
However, agents in the region closed 1.2 percent more deals than they had the year before to bring the year’s total to more than 89,000 transactions. Nine of the 13 counties studied recorded more home sales over the same period.
“There’s a lot of inventory right now,” said Don Dykstra, chairman of Bloomfield Homes, a Dallas-area homebuilder. “So there are deals for the buyers who are buying.”
The Dallas market has about four months of inventory, reflecting a stable marketplace, said Franceanna Campagna, chair of the MetroTex Association of Realtors. The market is normalizing after the pandemic, when rising construction costs and demand triggered home prices to surge.
During those immediate post-pandemic years, the “market was still really really tight, and now things have loosened up,” she said.
Still, affordability remains a challenge for the region, Campagna said. Not only are interest rates high, but insurance and construction costs are increasing, too.
“All of that is really squeezing out those first-time homebuyers,” she said.
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Median prices fell in all but three counties, with Collin County, Texas’ sixth-most populous county with 1.1 million residents, experiencing the most significant drop of 6.8 percent. However, while Collin County’s median price settled at $465,000, the county recorded an uptick in sales. Transaction volume rose by more than 8 percent to reach about 15,500 deals.
Collin County, located north of Dallas, saw the second-highest number of people added to its population in 2025 from the year before, according to Census figures. But the county’s growth has cooled slightly, which could have contributed to prices falling, Dykstra said.
“You also have this law of big numbers,” Dykstra said. “The bigger the number gets, the harder it is to keep growing at a high percentage, and Collin County has gone from being an outlying rural area to [having] big cities.”
Meanwhile, home prices rose at the greatest rate in Ellis County, by 1.4 percent year over year, to reach a median of $424,990. Parker County followed, with a 1 percent climb. The median in Parker was $485,000 in April, the highest among the 13 counties studied. Both of these counties also saw their number of transactions grow year over year.
Ellis County is within decent commuting distance to both Dallas and Fort Worth, Dykstra said. It’s also received a lot of outgrowth from Dallas County, helping prices remain elevated in the area. Parker is another area that has been built up more recently, he said.