Fort Worth Housing Market Forecast for 2025: Price Predictions and More
Inventory gains will benefit home buyers in 2025, but watch out for rising prices.
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Recent forecasts for the Fort Worth, Texas real estate market suggest that home prices will rise gradually during 2025.
This would be a change from the previous year, during which home values across the DFW area (and much of the U.S.) declined slightly due to weaker demand.
The good news for home buyers is that inventory has risen over the past couple of years. Home buyers in Fort Worth have more properties to choose from in 2025, along with more negotiating leverage.
Here are the key points covered in this housing market forecast:
Fort Worth home prices dipped over the past year.
But prices are expected to start inching upward again in 2025.
Home buyers will have more properties to choose from in 2025.
Fort Worth could shift toward buyer's market territory this year.
Mortgage rates are expected to decline slightly later this year.
Fort Worth Home Price Trends: 2025 Update
At the start of 2025, the median home price for Fort Worth was hovering around $298,000, following a 0.8% decline over the previous 12 months.
Over the past five years, the Fort Worth real estate market has followed the same general pattern as most other U.S. cities:
Home prices skyrocketed during the pandemic years.
Prices hit an all-time high during the summer of 2022.
Prices declined or flattened through 2024 and into 2025.
You can see this pattern in the graph below, which is based on data provided by Zillow.
This graph also shows how home prices flattened during 2024, foreshadowing what we might see during the first quarter of 2025.
Fort Worth Housing Market Has More Inventory
Home buyers in Fort Worth will have more properties to choose from in 2025 due to inventory growth that occurred over the past year.
This is true for most cities across the country, including those spread across the DFW metro area.
According to a January 2025 report from Realtor.com:
"Despite recent increases in mortgage rates, January showed a promising change in seller activity as newly listed homes grew 37.5% month-over-month..."
That same report showed that active real estate listings in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area increased by 35.7% from January 2024 to January 2025.
Similarly, a report from the Greater Fort Worth Association of REALTORS stated there was a "31% increase in active listings with inventory across multiple price points" during 2024.
These trends increase the chance for local buyers to find a home within budget.
According to data from the national real estate brokerage Redfin, the Fort Worth housing market had about a 3.6-month supply of homes for sale at the start of 2025. That was better than the national average during the same time, which was a 2.7-month supply.
Real estate market forecasts for 2025 to 2026 suggest that Fort Worth could experience additional inventory growth over the coming months.
If mortgage rates trend downward later this year, as expected, more homeowners might be willing to list their properties. This could bring more homes onto the market.
A More Relaxed Pace for Buyers in 2025
The Fort Worth real estate market has slowed down over the past year, creating a more relaxed pace for house hunters seeking a property to purchase.
During January of 2025, homes listed for sale in Fort Worth spent a median of 58 days on the market before going under contract. That was higher than the national "median days on market" for that month, indicating a slower pace within the Fort Worth real estate market.
(Side note: Median days on market is a metric that helps us gauge the overall "speed" of a housing market. It shows how long it takes for a typical home to sell in a particular area.)
During the home-buying frenzy of 2020 to early 2022, Fort Worth had a median days on market as low as 14 days, indicative of a fast-moving and highly competitive market.
In 2025, however, the median DOM has risen to around 60 days. This shows that the Fort Worth housing market has slowed considerably over the past few years.
A slower pace within the real estate market gives buyers more time to evaluate each individual property, rather than rushing to a decision.
Related: Why the DFW housing scene has slowed
Fewer Homes Are Selling Above the List Price
Recent housing market trends in Fort Worth have brought much good news for home buyers. And forecasts for 2025 to 2026 predict we could see more of the same.
So while we're on that theme, here's some more good news for buyers.
In early 2025, very few homes in Fort Worth were selling for more than asking price. As of January, only about 15% of properties ended up being sold above the list/asking price.
During the second half of 2022, that percentage rose as high as 67%, indicating a strong seller's market. But since then, a decline in buyer demand has reduced the need to offer more than the asking price.
This sharp decline in homes sold above list price shows just how much the Fort Worth real estate market has shifted over the past three years or so. Buyers currently have more negotiating leverage and are much less likely to pay more than the asking price.
Housing Market Forecast Into Early 2026
As mentioned earlier, home prices in Fort Worth (and across the DFW metroplex) declined slightly during 2024. This was part of a post-pandemic "market correction" that affected many, if not most, cities across the United States.
The latest predictions, however, suggest that Fort Worth home prices will resume a gradual climb through 2025 and into 2026.
For example, Zillow recently predicted that the median home value for the DFW metro area would rise by around 1.7% during 2025. Prices will likely continue to move upward in 2026 as well, barring any unforeseen economic crises.
This brings even more good news for home buyers in Fort Worth. With forecasts calling for only modest price growth in the months ahead, buyers shouldn't feel as rushed to make a purchase (as they would if prices were rising rapidly).
Disclaimer: Real estate forecasts give us some sense of where the market might be headed in the near future. But overall, they're the equivalent of an educated guess and should be treated as such. No one can predict future housing trends with complete accuracy.