Why are Texas Home Prices Dropping so Fast?
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
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🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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The Texas real estate market is shifting fast — with rising inventory, falling prices, and surging insurance costs making investors think twice. Ken & Danille break down the latest numbers from Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston to help you navigate the turbulence and uncover long-term opportunities.
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| 0:00.0 | Texas was once the gold standard for real estate investing. |
| 0:05.7 | But now with falling prices, high insurance costs, and a lot of natural disasters, |
| 0:10.9 | some investors are wondering, is the juice still worth the squeeze? |
| 0:14.7 | Yeah, I know. |
| 0:15.6 | Well, you guys may know that Texas is on a rocket ship. |
| 0:19.5 | It passed 30 million people in 2022. You think about that, |
| 0:24.8 | 30 million people. It's like its own country. Yeah. You know, and you guys know, we own stuff there, |
| 0:31.0 | right? So we own in Fort Worth in San Antonio. We own Houston. We own in Austin. We own in Dallas. And so these are |
| 0:40.8 | markets that I'm intimately aware of. But as you may or may not know, there's a lot of stuff |
| 0:47.6 | kind of bubbling down below it, you know, like as an investor. Yeah, we're hearing a lot of stuff |
| 0:53.3 | about the Texas market. You know, there's a lot of stuff about the Texas market. |
| 0:54.5 | You know, there's a lot of online chatter about how bad it is and how things are going |
| 0:58.6 | really poorly in the whole state. |
| 1:01.2 | But as Ken likes to talk about, you know, saying a whole state's doing poorly is not really |
| 1:06.1 | accurate. |
| 1:07.0 | It's usually different regions. |
| 1:08.7 | So on the show today, we're going to break down, you know, different regions of Texas and how they're doing and different investment strategies based on the different reasons. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.9 | And I think what's in take a look at the, the average home in all of Texas is right around 360 grand. |
| 1:25.2 | So just to compare that in California, it's like $750,000. So there's a tremendous |
| 1:33.2 | amount of people that have been moving to Texas. What's happening, though, is home affordability, |
| 1:39.1 | rent affordability, all that stuff, just like a lot of places. as these migration patterns continue, it's going to, |
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