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Austin Housing Market
Austin was one of the first U.S. housing markets to correct after the pandemic boom, and that makes it one of the most useful to watch. Our General Partner lives here, and we follow the Austin-Round Rock metro closely. This page collects our latest data and analysis on home sales, prices, inventory and rents, and it updates as we publish.
Austin by the numbers
- September 2026
- -5.9%
- Austin metro pending sales, year over year, against -11.3% nationally. Source article
- August 2026
- 3.1%
- Austin rent growth, closer to the national average than in past years. Source article
Latest Austin analysis
Analysis: September Pending Sales Data Reveals Widening Cracks in Housing Demand, With Select Sunbelt Metros Showing Relative Resilience
The national housing market is flashing its most significant warning signal yet. The National Association of REALTORS® reported that pending home sales crate...
Austin's Housing Reset: Surging Sales Volume Comes at a Steep Price
Through the first 21 days of August 2026, the Austin-Round Rock MSA has already recorded more home sales than it did during the entire month of August 2025.¹...
The Great Rebalancing: Midwest and Northeast Lead Single-Family Rental Growth as Sun Belt Cools
A structural shift is underway in the U.S. single-family rental (SFR) market. For years, the Sun Belt captured headlines with double-digit rent growth and ma...
Supply Side Story: New Home Inventory Swells to 10.3 Months as Sales Falter, Zillow Forecasts -6.1% Correction in Austin
The latest housing data confirms a structural shift we have been anticipating for the past 18 months. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's report from June ...
The Great American Housing Divide: A Market of Haves and Have-Nots in June 2026
The narrative dominating national headlines suggests the U.S. housing market is in a state of suspended animation. Early June 2026 data from S&P Case-Shiller...
Austin's Dichotomy: Rising Contracts and Falling Prices Signal a Complex Bottoming Process
For the past 24 months, investors have watched the Austin real estate market with a mix of fascination and trepidation. The market that once defined the pand...
Rooted in Austin
Our General Partner, Dylan Peters, lives in Austin and serves on the Real Estate and Planning Committee of Austin Habitat for Humanity. If you work in Austin housing as a builder, broker, lender, policy maker or neighbor, we would like to hear what you are seeing. Get in touch.
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