Dallas, TX Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Dallas produces a steady stream of closings but little consensus: sales over the last six months span a range wide enough that the median is a midpoint between different markets, not a going rate. The distribution below matters more than the headline.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 5,471
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $489,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $257
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $275,000 and $839,900

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 5,471 closed sales in Dallas over the last six months, with a median closing price of $489,000. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $275,000 and $839,900. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. The large tracked sample provides substantial market-level evidence. Across the 5,466 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $188 and $356 per square foot.

Figures last updated August 22, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Dallas, TX (August 2026)

The median home price in Dallas is $489,000, measured across the 5,471 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $275,000 and $839,900.

Where Dallas sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Dallas over the last six months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $275,000 and $839,900. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 31 days, across 4,720 Dallas closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 19 days, across 4,592 Dallas closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Dallas angle

Dallas shows one of the widest quartile bands in our coverage. Resideline tracked 5,471 closings over the last six months, a median closed sale price of $489,000, and a middle half stretching from $275,000 to $839,900, a spread among the widest we track. At that width the citywide median says almost nothing about a particular address, and the reach above the median is far longer than the reach below it, so a midpoint anchor will run low across the upper part of the ordinary range.

What is being reported about the Dallas market

The numbers above are what we measure from tracked closings. Alongside them, here is what local and national coverage is reporting, from the source:

• •The Texas Real Estate Research Center's NTREIS Monthly MLS Summary reported that the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA recorded 8,961 single-family sales in June 2026, up 7% year over year, with a median price of $405,000 (flat year over year), an average 54 days on market, active single-family listings of 31,914 (down 4%), and 4.4 months of inventory (Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M / NTREIS (via MetroTex), Jul 07, 2026)
• •The Texas Real Estate Research Center's Texas Housing Insight reported that Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington logged 8,778 home sales in April 2026, up 7.7% year over year, at a median price of $387,500; it also reported Dallas home prices down 1.3% year over year while Fort Worth-Arlington's decline narrowed to 0.4%, and a median seller price reduction of $12,500 in DFW (about 3% of initial list price) (Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University, Jul 01, 2026)

Dallas market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Dallas ZIP codes: 75219 · 75204.

From market read to offer price

A spread this wide means the citywide number cannot price a specific address; the step that matters is the property-level read. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale and graded against the real closing price after it sells. As of August 2026, the public scoreboard showed 3.26% median error across 12,516+ graded closings. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Dallas address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

Using these numbers? Please cite the source and the sample size:

Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Dallas, TX
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 5,471
Median sold price: $489,000
Median sold $/sqft: $257 (5,466 qualifying)
https://resideline.com/blog/dallas-housing-market-2026

The local market statistics in this report are calculated from closed sales tracked by Resideline. Transaction coverage may differ from complete county or municipal records.

Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Dallas over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.