New Braunfels, TX Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around New Braunfels, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what New Braunfels 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: 843
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $349,990
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $173
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $285,000 and $434,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 843 closed sales in New Braunfels over the last six months, with a median closing price of $349,990. 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 $285,000 and $434,000. 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. 96% of the New Braunfels 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 838 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $147 and $205 per square foot.

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

Median home price in New Braunfels, TX (September 2026)

The median home price in New Braunfels is $349,990, measured across the 843 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $285,000 and $434,000.

Where New Braunfels sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in New Braunfels 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 $285,000 and $434,000. Among the 127 Texas markets with a published band, New Braunfels's middle-half spread ($285,000 to $434,000) ranks 61st from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 27th percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 56 days, across 622 New Braunfels closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 21 days, across 612 New Braunfels closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The New Braunfels angle

Across 843 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price in New Braunfels was $349,990, and the middle half of sales closed between $285,000 and $434,000. The width of that band is close to typical for the markets we track, so the median is a serviceable reference point and a poor substitute for comps. What deserves attention is the asymmetry: the upper quartile stands considerably further from the median than the lower quartile does, so the upper half of this market is spread out and a subject that belongs there cannot be priced by marking the median up. Pull comps from the range your subject actually occupies.

New Braunfels market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for New Braunfels ZIP codes: 78130 · 78132.

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

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: New Braunfels, TX
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 4850820
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 843
Median sold price: $349,990
Median sold $/sqft: $173 (838 qualifying)
Property mix: 96% houses
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Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in New Braunfels over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.