Housing Market in San Antonio
San Antonio's citywide housing figures describe a market that has cooled modestly and shifted some leverage toward buyers: Redfin's city-level data shows a median sale price of $265,000 (trailing three months through June 2026), down 1.7% year-over-year, with homes taking longer to sell than a year ago. Whether inventory is rising or falling depends on which source and time window you check -- a real, disclosed disagreement rather than a settled trend.
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Redfin's San Antonio, TX housing-market page (retrieved August 2026) puts the median sale price at $265,000 over the trailing three months ending June 2026, down 1.7% year-over-year, with median price per square foot at $155, down 3.1% year-over-year. This is a genuinely softer read than a hot seller's market -- prices are drifting down modestly, not flat or rising, which is a different story than San Antonio's reputation as a perpetually undervalued, appreciating market would suggest on its own.
Days on Market
Homes in San Antonio are taking longer to sell than a year ago: Redfin cites roughly 59-60 days on market currently, up from about 53 days the prior year, with homes receiving about 2 offers on average -- Redfin characterizes the market as "somewhat competitive," not hot. Separately, homes are reported selling for about 3% below list price on average, which tracks with buyers having more negotiating room than in recent boom years.
Sales Volume and Inventory: A Real Disagreement
Sources disagree on inventory direction, worth naming rather than resolving artificially: one dataset cites 3,167 homes sold in June 2026, down from 3,253 the prior year (a modest decline in sales volume), while a separate figure describes active listings down about 4% year-over-year as of October 2025. At the same time, other San Antonio market commentary (LRG Realty, among others) describes rising inventory and longer days on market giving buyers room to request concessions, rate buydowns, or closing-cost credits. These readings are not fully reconcilable from this research pass -- the honest summary is a market with softening prices and longer time-to-sale, but not a single confirmed direction on listing-count growth.
How San Antonio Compares to Austin and Dallas
San Antonio's $265,000 median sale price sits well below Austin's roughly $577,000 city-proper median and below Dallas-area pricing generally (see texas-tier-a-2.js for the Austin comparison) -- consistent with San Antonio's positioning as the most housing-affordable major metro among Texas's largest cities. That affordability gap is real and persistent, not a temporary dip, and is one of the clearest reasons households and employers cite for choosing San Antonio over Austin specifically.
Key takeaways
- Median sale price: $265,000 (trailing 3 months through June 2026, Redfin), down 1.7% YoY; price per square foot ($155) down 3.1% YoY -- a softening, not flat or rising, market.
- Days on market running ~59-60 days, up from ~53 a year ago; homes average 2 offers and sell about 3% below list price -- "somewhat competitive," not a hot seller's market.
- Sources disagree on whether inventory is rising or falling (one figure shows sales volume and active listings down YoY; other market commentary describes rising inventory) -- treat the exact inventory trend as unsettled rather than picking one narrative.
- San Antonio's median price runs roughly half of Austin's city-proper median ($577K) -- a real, persistent affordability gap versus Texas's other major metros.
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