Home prices in the Fort Worth area declined slightly in 2025, with all counties in the region seeing lower median sale prices compared to 2024. Data from the Greater Fort Worth Association of Realtors and the Texas Real Estate Research Center show that most declines were modest, except for Denton County, where prices dropped more significantly.
In Fort Worth itself, the median home sale price for 2025 was $330,000, a decrease of 1.5 percent from the previous year. Tarrant County saw a minimal drop of 0.3 percent to $349,000. Johnson County experienced a decline of 1.4 percent, while Parker County’s median price fell by 0.8 percent.
“I would call that, in my professional opinion, a flat market,” said Jim Fite, CEO of Century 21 Judge Fite. “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 stood out as an exception among its neighbors. The county’s median home price fell by 4.3 percent from 2024 to reach $445,000 in 2025. December saw an even sharper year-over-year decline of nearly 10 percent.
Despite falling prices in Denton County during this period, closed sales increased by 2.2 percent in December according to the MetroTex Association of Realtors.
Industry observers suggest that new residential construction may be influencing these trends in Denton County. Developers have been expanding northward from Dallas for years—particularly along the Dallas North Tollway—and are also building laterally across neighboring areas. Celina and Pilot Point are both drawing significant development activity; Celina is partly within Denton County and is considered one of Texas’ most active housing markets.
Denton has attracted substantial investment recently—including a project led by Ross Perot Jr.’s family that will bring approximately 6,000 single-family homes and about 3,000 apartments to the area (https://therealdeal.com/texas/dallas/2023/10/30/ross-perot-jr-unveils-10b-city-within-a-city-in-denton/). Other major projects include Cole Ranch and Alpha Ranch—each expected to deliver over 4,000 homes—and Furst Ranch with plans for around 1,300 homes (https://therealdeal.com/texas/dallas/2023/09/13/masterplan-power-player-johnson-development-propels-dentons-3100-acre-cole-ranch). Multifamily developments underway include Chadwick Farms—a mixed-use project featuring roughly 900 apartments plus a hotel—and The Renegade by Holt Lunsford Commercial located downtown.
Developers like Cameron Castaldo are also investing heavily in North Texas’ growing residential sector (https://therealdeal.com/texas/dallas/2023/08/24/at-25-developer-cameron-castaldo-bets-big-on-north-texas-next-frontier).
