Fort Worth area homes depreciated slightly in 2025.
Median home sale prices fell below 2024 in all counties in the Fort Worth area, according to the Greater Fort Worth Association of Realtors and the Texas Real Estate Research Center. Most of the regional declines are shallow, but in Denton County, one of the state’s hottest home development hubs, prices fell more steeply.
In Fort Worth proper, the 2025 median sale price was $330,000, down 1.5 percent from the year prior. Tarrant County overall was practically unchanged, with a price decline of 0.3 percent at $349,000. Johnson County to the south and Parker County to the west experienced declines of 1.4 percent and 0.8 percent, respectively.
“I would call that, in my professional opinion, a flat market,” said Jim Fite, CEO of Century 21 Judge Fite, a leading North Texas brokerage. “If I’m a seller, an owner, my equity is not being withered away. And as a buyer, I can’t just go out and steal a house now.”
Denton County, which straddles Fort Worth and Dallas to the north, is a notable outlier.
Denton County experienced a 4.3 percent decline in home prices from 2024 to 2025, falling to a median of $445,000. In December alone, prices fell almost 10 percent, year-over-year.
While sales and prices tend to move in tandem, they diverged in Denton County last year, with the number of closed sales rising by a steady 2.2 percent in December while prices fell, according to the MetroTex Association of Realtors.
Homebuilding may play a part in the trend. Developers have been blitzing north from Dallas for years, with activity especially concentrated along the Dallas North Tollway, but also spreading laterally. Celina, which Denton County partially includes, is one of the hottest residential markets in the state. Pilot Point, wholly contained in Denton County, boomed during the pandemic and continues to attract developers’ interest. Denton itself has drawn billions in investment, including a Perot family project that will deliver 6,000 single-family homes and 3,000 apartments.
Other upcoming single-family projects include the Cole Ranch and the Alpha Ranch, both set to have over 4,000 homes apiece, and the Furst Ranch, expected to have 1,300 homes. Multifamily development in the pipeline includes Chadwick Farms, a mixed-use project with 900 apartments and a hotel, and The Renegade, a Holt Lunsford Commercial project in downtown Denton.
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