The latest numbers from the Houston Association of Realtors show fewer sales, a little more time on the market, and prices holding roughly flat. If you are buying, that combination is not bad news.
What the Numbers Say
HAR reported roughly 7,100 single-family homes sold across the Houston area in August 2026, down 11.5% from August 2025. The median sale price came in at $330,000, about $5,000 under where it sat a year ago, while the average price edged up 1.2% to $426,760. There were 38,947 single-family homes on the market, inventory sat at 5.3 months, and homes took 54 days to sell on average, up from 52 days a year earlier.
Closer to home, HAR’s data for the Conroe Southeast area shows a median around $321,000 with about 4.9 months of inventory and listings down roughly 15.6% from a year ago. So Montgomery County is running a little tighter on supply than the metro as a whole.
What It Means If You’re Buying
Five months of inventory is close to what most people would call a balanced market. Nobody is waiving inspections to win a house right now. You have time to look, time to think it over, and real room to ask for things: closing cost help, repairs, a seller-paid rate buydown.
That last one is worth asking about every single time in a market like this. A seller who will not come down $10,000 on the price will often put $10,000 toward your buydown instead, and the buydown usually does more for your monthly payment than the price cut would have.
What It Means If You’re Selling
Prices are holding. That is the headline, and it is a good one. But 54 days on market tells you the house that sits is the house priced on what the neighbor got last spring. Price it to today and it moves.