Everyone Assumes These Homes Are Flying Off the Market. The Data Says Otherwise.

If you've talked to a buyer this summer, you've probably heard some version of the same worry: everything is moving so fast there's no time to think, no time to look, no time to decide before it's gone.

Here's what the data actually says.

Across the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026, the median days on market for this territory was 46 days, based on 935 sales tracked in MLS sold data. That is not a market where buyers are getting steamrolled. That is a market that gives people room to breathe.

And the fast-sale number backs it up. Only 2.4% of the 935 sales in this territory closed inside seven days. If homes were truly flying off the shelf, that share would be a lot higher than one in forty.

There's another number in here that tells its own story. Among current inventory across the territory, the share of homes owned by absentee owners sits at 0%, out of 805 properties measured. That's a market of owner-occupants selling their own homes, not investors churning listings.

The pace isn't uniform everywhere, either, and that's worth sitting with.

In Southlake, the median time to go pending ran 71.5 days this period, the slowest pace anywhere in the territory.

In Keller, by contrast, the median time to go pending ran 40 days. Two markets inside the same buy box, moving at genuinely different speeds. A homeowner in Southlake and a homeowner in Keller are living in two different markets right now, even though they're twenty minutes apart.

Some individual markets back up the broader pattern with their own numbers.

In Flower Mound, the smaller of its two ZIPs saw a median of 43 days on market, with only 1.3% of its sales closing inside a week.

In Colleyville, the median time to pending ran 47 days this period.

In Grapevine, the median time to pending came in at 43.5 days this period.

In Roanoke, the median time to pending stretched to 53 days this period.

What does this mean if you're the one making a decision this season?

If you're selling, the data says you should expect a real decision-making window from your buyers, not a bidding stampede. Forty-six days is a normal home shopping process, not a race. Price it to the market you actually have, and plan for a process that takes some weeks to play out.

If you're buying, this is useful too. The fear of "everyone else is about to grab it" isn't backed by what actually happened here. You have more room than the narrative suggests, especially in markets like Keller where the pace is quicker but still measured in weeks, not days.

What we'll be watching next: whether the gap between Southlake's 71.5-day pace and Keller's 40-day pace widens or narrows as the year goes on. That gap, more than any single headline number, is what tells us whether this territory is one market or several.

MLS sold data via Listing Leads.