Besides Luxury Mispriced DFW Homes Are Lagging on the Market

North Texas sellers who find the market slow may be half right.

A 10-year analysis of Dallas-Fort Worth residential sales reveals that 2026 buyers are snapping up well-priced homes but snubbing overpriced listings, resulting in a significant gap between the fastest and slowest sales compared to previous years, according to data provided by Frisco Compass agent Matt Haistings. Despite the divergent general market, however, homes priced above $2.5 million are largely unaffected, with even the slowest luxury home sales moving far more swiftly than the overall average.

“There’s a segment of homes that sell quickly, and then everybody else is in for a month or more,” Haistings said.

The General Market

Haistings’ analysis captures multiple listing service data from Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton Counties from 2015 to April 13, 2026.

So far this year, a fifth of home sales in Dallas-Fort Worth went under contract within a week. The other 80 percent of homes on the market waited a median of 50 days before closing, with 23 percent of homes closing after 90 days on the market.

The share of sales that went under contract after 90 days hasn’t been this high in DFW since at least 2015, according to Haistings.

The gap between the fastest and slowest residential sales is also growing. In 2025, about the same share of homes — one in five — went under contract in seven days. But the other 80 percent sold after a median of 43 days, rather than 50 days, and just 17 percent of homes sold after 90 days.

In 2024, 27 percent of homes sold in a week, while the rest sold in a median of 32 days, representing a much narrower spread between the fastest and slowest home sales.

Between 2021 and 2023, which generally encompasses the pandemic-era hot streak in the Texas housing market, high demand and historically cheap mortgage interest rates swelled the share of seven-day sales to 46 percent. The rest of the market was only a week slower: The median days on market for other sales during this period was 14 days.

Even before the pandemic, the market saw more sales within a week and far fewer sales over 90 days. In 2018, over a third of homes sold within seven days, and just 9 percent languished past 90 days on the market, compared to a fifth of homes selling in a week and almost a quarter of homes selling after 90 days this year.

The year is young, and the housing market hasn’t completed its full seasonal cycle yet. However, the local MLS numbers corroborate a national trend.

A Zillow analysis published Thursday found that the typical American home moved to the pending stage in 19 days while the median age of all active listings reached 56 days in March, showing a considerable disparity between homes that sell and homes that stick. The 37-day difference is the widest spread between March sale times and overall listing times since 2020.

“Buyers want to get those premium houses. They want that move-in-ready house if there’s something special about it, and they’re going to pay for it. But on everything else, I think they’ll be patient,” Haistings said. “And my thinking for 2026 is that buyers will be patient throughout the whole year.”

The Luxury Exception

Luxury homes have historically taken longer to sell, but not this year.

From 2021 through 2025, the slowest-selling homes above $2.5 million went under contract after more days on market than homes in other price points, according to Haistings’ data. Between 2021 and 2023, while the median days-on-market for all Dallas-Fort Worth homes that sold after a week was 14 days, the median for luxury homes that sold after a week was 34 days. In 2024, those numbers rose to 32 days-on-market for all homes that sold after a week and 43 days for those that were priced above $2.5 million.

This year, while homes that sell after a week on the market wait a median of 50 days to go under contract, those that are priced above $2.5 million only wait 34 days, largely keeping in line with pandemic-era trends.

“There’s a lot more cash floating around in that segment of the market, so they can make decisions quickly,” Haistings said. “And sometimes there are unique properties that they don’t want to wait to buy.”