El Paso, TX Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around El Paso, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what El Paso sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of September 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 2,986
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $260,307
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $159
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $214,950 and $339,950

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 2,986 closed sales in El Paso over the last six months, with a median closing price of $260,307. 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 $214,950 and $339,950. 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. 94% of the El Paso closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 2,985 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $138 and $180 per square foot.

Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in El Paso, TX (September 2026)

The median home price in El Paso is $260,307, measured across the 2,986 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $214,950 and $339,950.

Where El Paso sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in El Paso over the last six months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $214,950 and $339,950. Among the 127 Texas markets with a published band, El Paso's middle-half spread ($214,950 to $339,950) ranks 73rd from the narrowest. 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 23 days, across 2,665 El Paso closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 28 days, across 2,630 El Paso closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

El Paso Real Estate Market Trends in 2026

Among the El Paso closings with usable living area over the last six months, single-family houses closed at a median of $160 per square foot (2,810 sales), multi-family homes at $139 (110 sales) and townhouses at $162 (33 sales).

El Paso market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for El Paso ZIP codes: 79928 · 79938.

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. 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, so it cannot be revised once the sale price is known. Grading it is a different matter in Texas: because sale prices are not public record here, a confirmed closing price reaches us for only a small share of Texas homes, and most Texas estimates stay frozen and ungraded. The accuracy scoreboard is therefore a national record rather than a Texas one. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

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

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: El Paso, TX
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 4824000
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 2,986
Median sold price: $260,307
Median sold $/sqft: $159 (2,985 qualifying)
Property mix: 94% houses
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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 El Paso over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.