Yes, an older house sells in Manor, and in the 90 days ending September 8, 2026 it sold faster than the ZIP. 14 homes closed across Wildhorse Creek, Greenbury, Hamilton Point, Carriage Hills and Manor Town at a median $240,000 in a median 57 days. With 20 for sale on September 9, that is 4.3 months of inventory on the 90-day pace and 5.6 months, balanced, on the twelve-month pace. Our read is that this is the part of 78653 the builders do not reach, since 39 of the 43 homes that closed over twelve months sold under $300,000. Condition decides the sale here: 36 listings ended without a sale against those 43.
Wildhorse Creek, Greenbury, Hamilton Point, Carriage Hills and Manor Town, taken together in Manor’s 78653, had 14 homes close in the 90 days ending September 8, 2026 at a median sale price of $240,000, a median of 57 cumulative days on the market, and 93.3% of original asking. On September 9, 2026 they had 20 homes for sale and 4.3 months of inventory on the 90-day pace, a seller’s-market label for the five as a whole (5.6 months and balanced on the twelve-month pace), against 7.5 months for 78653. Over the twelve months ending September 8, 43 homes closed, 39 of them under $300,000 and 35 of them built before 2010, and 36 listings ended without a sale. What changes it for you is which of the five you own in and what an inspector will find in a house built in 2004.
Sources: Unlock MLS (ACTRIS) via MLS Grid, WIR analysis, pulled September 9, 2026; Manor ISD campuses.
The wider Manor story is on the Manor, TX real estate market report, and every figure on this page is tabled on Why are 367 homes for sale in 78653 when 147 sold in 90 days?.
Last updated September 17, 2026. Sales data covers the 90 days ending September 8, 2026 and the twelve months ending the same day (Unlock MLS via MLS Grid); listing inventory as of September 9, 2026; builder pricing and incentives read September 8, 2026.
On the MLS, the subdivision rows for the five together show 14 closings in the 90 days ending September 8, 2026 at a median sale price of $240,000, a median of 57 cumulative days on the market, and a median 93.3% of original asking price. On September 9 the group had 20 homes for sale and 4.3 months of inventory on that 90-day pace. Over the twelve months ending September 8, 43 homes closed at a median of $242,500 and 60 days, at 93.3% of original asking, with 5.6 months of inventory on that longer basis. Months of inventory means: if no more homes came on the market, how long it would take to sell everything listed at the current pace. Chris’s rule beside it: the right company sells faster than the average listing.
The same 90 days one year earlier, June 11 to September 8, 2025, had 4 closings across the five, under WIR’s publishing floor of 5, so no median is published for that period. The twelve months before the current twelve had 26 closings at a median of $290,000 and 57 days, at 95.7% of original asking. More homes closed in the current twelve months than in the prior twelve, 43 against 26. The two medians, $242,500 against $290,000, were measured on different houses, so WIR makes no price claim from the pair.
20 homes for sale against 14 closings in 90 days is 4.3 months of inventory, a seller’s-market label under WIR’s 5.5-month line on the 90-day basis and 5.6 months, balanced, on the twelve-month basis, while 78653 as a whole sat at 7.5 months on the 90-day computation, a buyer’s market. The label is for the five subdivisions as a whole, and a price point changes which market a homeowner is in. Briarcreek and Bell Farms, at 2.1 months, is the other resale market on this cluster with a seller’s-market label, and it has the lower months of the two. The ZIP’s own label, and Chris’s position on why a ZIP label is where the conversation starts, is on is 78653 a buyer’s market or a seller’s market?
The reason WIR sees in the rows is price. 39 of the 43 homes that closed here over the twelve months ending September 8, 2026 sold under $300,000, and on September 9 that range held 15 of the group’s 20 listings, 4.6 months of inventory on the twelve-month basis. Across 78653, builder listings were 4% of the homes for sale between $200,000 and $249,999 and 12% between $250,000 and $299,999, against 59% between $350,000 and $399,999 and 78% between $400,000 and $449,999, and the lowest builder listing on the MLS on September 9 was $247,900. A house here is priced below most of what the builders sell, so the buyer choosing it is choosing among resales. Which builder is standing at which price across the ZIP is on what is your Manor home competing against right now?
4.3 months is a statement about supply, and it did not stop listings from failing. In the 90 days ending September 8, 2026, 8 listings across the five expired or were withdrawn against 14 that closed, which is 36.4% of every listing that reached an outcome either way. Over the twelve months the count is 36 ended without a sale against 43 closed, 45.6%, against 20 and 26, 43.5%, in the twelve months before. The 19 resale homes for sale on September 9 were asking a median $265,000, had been on the market a median 70 days so far, and 12 of the 19 had already cut from their original asking price. How the ZIP as a whole compares, and Chris’s position on why a listing fails, is on why aren’t homes selling in 78653?
Each subdivision on its own had fewer than 10 closings in the twelve months ending September 8, 2026, so WIR publishes counts for them and no medians. Wildhorse Creek: 9 closed, 5 for sale on September 9, 10 ended without a sale, built between 2002 and 2011. Greenbury: 9 closed, 4 for sale, 7 ended, built between 2003 and 2004. Hamilton Point: 9 closed, 3 for sale, 3 ended, built between 2001 and 2004. Carriage Hills: 8 closed, 5 for sale, 11 ended, built between 2009 and 2011. Manor Town: 8 closed, 3 for sale, 5 ended, with build years from 1930 to 2025 and a median of 2007.
Carriage Hills and Wildhorse Creek each had more listings end without a sale than close over the year, 11 against 8 and 10 against 9, while Hamilton Point had 3 against 9. Manor Town is the one place in the group where a 1930 house and a 2025 house share a subdivision name, so a comparison inside it is a comparison of two houses. The group also had one builder listing on September 9, asking $420,000, and one home active under contract with 2 pending. How long a Manor home takes when it is priced to the market from the first day is on how long are homes taking to sell in Manor?
Of the 43 homes that closed across the five in the twelve months ending September 8, 2026, 35 were built before 2010, 5 between 2010 and 2019, and 3 in 2020 or later; the median build year was 2004 and the 19 resale listings for sale on September 9 had the same median build year. The buyer at $240,000 in 78653 is comparing one twenty-year-old house with another, and WIR’s read is that the comparison is made by the inspector: the roof, the HVAC, the water heater, the things that turn into a repair request on a fast contract. The 14 homes that closed in the 90 days did so at 93.3% of original asking. WIR’s read is that the inspection is where that 93.3% gets decided: 12 of the 19 resale listings for sale on September 9 had already cut, they had been on the market a median 70 days against the 57 the sold homes needed, and 36 listings ended without a sale against 43 that closed over the twelve months.
So the money question here is preparation. Chris’s position on what to fix and what to leave alone, and the Watters Ready-Fund, up to $50,000 toward repairs, upgrades, staging and moving as a pay-at-close line of credit with a monthly rate and an origination fee, repaid at closing or at 12 months, with eligibility on the program page, are on how much should you spend fixing your Manor home before selling? What the finished house is worth next to a new one is a different question, and it is on what your Manor home is worth next to a brand-new house.
The five sit in Manor ISD; all 43 closings recorded Manor ISD as the district, and the campus field on those listings named Manor, ShadowGlen and Lagos elementary schools, 20, 10 and 7 times.
It does if your house was built before 2010 and the mechanicals are original, because 35 of the 43 homes that closed here in the twelve months ending September 8, 2026 were that age, and the buyer’s inspector decides the order they sell in. It does if you are one of the 19 resale sellers on the market, asking a median $265,000 with a median 70 days behind you, because the 14 that closed in the 90 days went in 57 days at a median $240,000. It does if you own in Carriage Hills or Wildhorse Creek, where 11 and 10 listings ended without a sale against 8 and 9 that closed. If that is you, the fastest way to know is to run your address.
It applies less if your house was built in 2020 or later, as 3 of the 43 closings were, or in the 2010s, as 5 were, and shows like it, because the comparison then runs to the builder specs in the ZIP and to the $247,900 floor. It applies less if your likely price is above $300,000, where the group had 1, 2 and 1 closings in a year across three ranges and the ZIP’s builder share climbs to 34% and 59%; that range’s picture is on what your Manor home competes against. It applies differently if you own a lot or an outbuilding in Manor Town that a 2004 subdivision plat cannot offer; WIR’s read is that a buyer pays for that, and the MLS rows do not show it. If you do not know your likely price, start with what your Manor home is worth next to a brand-new house.
The MLS rows give the range for the five subdivisions and the build year gives the comparison. Your house sits somewhere specific inside that, in one of the five and on one street, where 19 sellers are asking a median $265,000 and 12 have already cut. In the twelve months ending September 8, 2026, 36 listings here ended without a sale and 43 closed. What would an inspector find in your house, and what would your asking price have to be, for yours to be one of the 43?
Whether your house lands with the 43 that closed or the 36 that ended without a sale comes down to what the inspection finds and where you price against the 19 already listed. Give us your address and we run the process behind this page against your actual property. You get:
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Watters International Realty is a Texas real estate brokerage based in Austin, with Chris Watters as broker of record. This page is written from ACTRIS data pulled through MLS Grid and analyzed by WIR on September 9, 2026, and from the WIR New Construction Inventory sheet. 118 homes sold by Watters International Realty in 78653.
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