Houston home values, from the county record.

What is the median home value in Houston, TX?

Across 978 randomly sampled Houston homes, the median automated valuation is $250,300, with the middle half of homes between $169,800 and $430,450. These are model estimates computed from county records and comparable sales — a starting point, not an appraisal. Agents competing for a listing will each defend their own number.

What does a typical Houston home look like?

Across 10,728 residential county parcels in Houston: the median home is 1,364 square feet with 3 bedrooms, built around 1949 (about 77 years old), on a 5,009 sq ft lot. 97% of parcels are single-family homes.

What does it cost to sell a home in Houston?

Commission is the biggest cost, and it is negotiable — there is no standard rate. At the 5.7% national average total commission (Clever Real Estate survey of 533 agents, February 2026), selling the median Houston home ($250,300) costs about $14,267. Every percentage point negotiated off that rate keeps about $2,503 with the seller — which is why having several agents quote against each other matters more here than in a cheaper market. Run your own numbers in the commission calculator.

Where these numbers come from

We maintain our own store of county assessor parcel records — 10,728 of them for Houston so far, growing daily. Housing-stock figures (size, age, bedrooms, lot, property mix) are medians across that full set. Value figures are medians of automated valuations for a random sample of those parcels, and the sample size is always shown. No figure on this page is scraped from another website.

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