Montgomery prices held steady while sales picked up
You may have heard that rates are high and buyers have pulled back. In Montgomery, the numbers tell a different story. The Real Estate Data Aggregator counted 270 homes sold in ZIP 77356 in the three months ending August 31, 2026. That is up 10.7% from the same months in 2025. Prices held at $370,000. Not up. Not down. Steady.
Freddie Mac put the average 30-year fixed rate at 7.40% as of October 8, 2026. Realtor.com noted that rates climbed above 7% for the first time since January 2025. That is real pressure on buyers. Yet Montgomery buyers kept showing up.
What the Real Estate Data Aggregator counted in Montgomery
Homes took a median of 72 days to sell. That is 3 days longer than a year ago. Not every home sold fast. But the Real Estate Data Aggregator also showed that 21.2% of homes went under contract within two weeks of listing. That share is up 7.2 points from a year before. Price right, and buyers move.
More homes came to market
The Real Estate Data Aggregator counted 458 new listings in ZIP 77356 in the three months ending August 31, 2026. That is up 25.8% from a year before. Total homes for sale reached 550, up 2.4%. Buyers had more to choose from. That is one reason prices did not run up.
Nationally, Realtor.com reported that price cuts hit 20.8% of listings in September 2026, the highest since October 2022. In Montgomery, the Real Estate Data Aggregator showed the sale-to-list ratio at 97.2%, up 0.9 points from a year before. Sellers here gave up a little less than the national picture suggests.
What this means, plainly
- Sellers: buyers are still active. 270 closed sales in three months says that.
- Sellers: price it close to market. The 97.2% sale-to-list ratio leaves little room for wishful pricing.
- Buyers: the median price held at $370,000. It did not run away from you.
- Buyers: 6.2 months of supply gives you choices. That is down 0.5 months, so supply is tightening a little.
- Everyone: 72 days is the median. Some homes moved faster. Some took longer.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that U.S. house prices rose 2.6% from July 2025 to July 2026. Montgomery's median held flat over the same stretch. That is not a warning. It is a fact worth knowing.
- In the three months ending August 31, 2026, Montgomery's median sale price held at $370,000. Sales rose 10.7%.
- Rates are at 7.40%.
- Buyers are still closing deals.
- The market is not frozen and prices did not spike.
One street can read very differently from the whole ZIP code. A home on one block may sit at 72 days. One two blocks over may go in two weeks. The numbers above are the ZIP. Your home is one address.
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Text me- Real Estate Data Aggregator numbers for ZIP 77356, the three months ending August 31, 2026, compared with the same months of 2025. Real Estate Data Aggregator last updated them on Oct 7, 2026.
- Federal Housing Finance Agency: FHFA House Price Index® Up 0.3 Percent in July; Up 2.6 Percent from Last Year | FHFA, Sep 29, 2026
- Redfin: One in Five Home Sellers Cut Prices as Buyer’s Market Persists, Sep 30, 2026
- Realtor.com: September 2026 Monthly Housing Trends: Price Cuts Hit 4-Year Highs as Mortgage Rates Top 7%, Sep 30, 2026
- Realtor.com: August 2026 Rental Report: Rents Fall for 37th Straight Month as Concessions Give Renters More Leverage, Sep 17, 2026
- Freddie Mac: Mortgage Rates, read Oct 10, 2026
- FRED: New Privately-Owned Housing Units Started: Total Units, read Oct 11, 2026