Here are the March/2026 MLS single-family statistics for Austin, TX:
This is the first month since Nov/2024 that we haven’t had a solid red category (ie-negative movement of 10+%)…16 months! And, our Pendings were up 11%, sales up 5% and Activity Index up 3%…all of these are front-loaded activities that show our market is heating up. As I’ve mentioned recently, we are seeing higher buyer activity in all areas of Austin when compared to the past few years which have been, well, rather stagnant.
Now, compare last month to March of last year (above) and you can clearly see we have marked improvement in nearly all categories. Further proof that our local Austin single-family home sales market is heading in the right direction.
Lastly, above are the averages for our 8 categories through March (above) which ends our 1st quarter of the year. Again, we see improvement. I have been doing this newsletter for nearly 20 years and I’ve recently seen improvement in 2 areas: 1) the statistics mentioned above, and 2) more articles written about our central Texas/Austin metro area discussing growth in new projects, jobs, economy, etc. Some of these are in my newsletter below. I say this because in the years since I moved to Austin in 1971, there have been a few valleys in our local economy and real estate market, but they have been short-lived. I firmly believe we are coming out of one of those downturns (caused by the Fed raising interest rates too fast starting in Feb/2022) based on what I’m reading the past several months.
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